Charina Marie Ramirez, MD
- Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
- Locations (2)
Biography
Charina Ramirez, M.D., is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children’s Health℠ and a Professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
After receiving her medical degree from the UT Medical Branch at Galveston, Dr. Ramirez completed an internship and residency training in pediatrics at Children’s Medical Center.
Dr. Ramirez completed her fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at UT Southwestern and Children’s Medical Center. She also served as a research fellow studying lipid metabolism during this time. She was awarded the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation fellowship grant.
Dr. Ramirez’s research interest involves cholesterol transport in the murine models of Nieman-Pick Type C disease and Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency. Currently, she’s evaluating the effects of a low carbohydrate diet in pediatric patients with metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (2003)
- Internship
- Children's Medical Center Dallas (2004), Pediatrics
- Residency
- Children's Medical Center Dallas (2006), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2010), Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology
Conditions Treated
- Childhood obesity
- 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
