Amal Ahmad Aqul, MD
- Pediatric Hepatologist, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
- Locations (2)
Biography
Amal Ahmad Aqual, M.D., is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Health℠ and an Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Amal Aqul graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University. She completed her Pediatric residency at UT Medical Branch in Austin. In addition to completing a Pediatric Gastroenterology fellowship at UT Southwestern, Dr. Aqul finished a specialty fellowship in Hepatology and Liver Transplant at Boston Children’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliated hospital.
Dr. Aqul manages patients with end stage liver disease on the liver transplant list before and following their liver transplant. She is an active member of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Committee at UT Southwestern and Children’s Health.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Cairo University Faculty of Medicine (1998)
- Residency
- University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School (2008), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Boston Children's Hospital (2013), Pediatrics Transplant Medicine
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2011), Gastroenterology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology
Conditions Treated
- Colic in babies
- Dubin-Johnson syndrome in children
- Failure to thrive (FTT) in children
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Juvenile hemochromatosis
- Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
- Pediatric abdominal migraines
- Pediatric achalasia
- Pediatric Alagille syndrome (ALGS)
- Pediatric alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT)
- Pediatric ascites
- Pediatric biliary atresia
- Pediatric celiac disease
- Pediatric chronic abdominal pain (stomach ache)
- Pediatric cirrhosis
- Pediatric colon polyps
- Pediatric colorectal cancer (CRC)
- Pediatric constipation
- Pediatric Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- Pediatric cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS)
- Pediatric diarrhea
- Pediatric dysphagia (swallowing disorder)
- Pediatric encopresis
- Pediatric esophageal stricture
- Pediatric esophageal varices
- Pediatric fecal incontinence
- Pediatric feeding disorder (PFD)
- Pediatric functional abdominal pain syndrome (FAPS)
- Pediatric gastroenteritis (stomache flu)
- Pediatric gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Pediatric gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
- Pediatric Gilbert’s syndrome
- Pediatric glycogen storage disease
- Pediatric H. pylori infection
- Pediatric hepatitis A
- Pediatric hepatitis B
- Pediatric hepatitis C
- Pediatric intrahepatic cholestasis liver disease
- Pediatric irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Pediatric lactose intolerance
- Pediatric liver (hepatic) tumors
- Pediatric liver failure
- Pediatric malabsorption
- Pediatric metabolic liver disease
- Pediatric microscopic colitis (lymphocytic colitis or collagenous colitis)
- Pediatric nausea and vomiting
- Pediatric necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Pediatric peptic ulcer
- Pediatric rumination syndrome (merycism)
- Pediatric Wilson’s disease
