Dr. Huang joined Children’s Specialists Division of Gastroenterology in September 2002 after she completed her fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. She also is an assistant professor at UCSD and collaborates with HIV researchers at the AntiViral Research Center in San Diego.

She earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a master’s degree in public health from Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.

Currently, Dr. Huang receives funding for her HIV research from the National Institutes of Health and Center for AIDS Research at UCSD. The UCSD Academic Senate also supports her research, which investigates how HIV infection and HIV medications affect the body and body composition. Eventually, she would like to focus most of her research toward nutrition in children. She is presently involved in a study of community awareness of childhood obesity.

Children's Specialists of San Diego
Children's Physicians Medical Group
3020 Children's Way, MC 5030
San Diego, CA  92123
Business Phone: 858-966-4003

Education:

2002   M.P.H., Masters of Public Health Degree Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2000   Clinical Effectiveness Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
1995   M.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
1991   B.S., Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI

Postdoctoral Training:

1999-2002  Fellow, GI/Nutrition, Children's Hospital, Boston
1996-1998  Resident, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles
1995-1996  Intern, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles

Academic Appointment(s):

2001   Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Licensure and Certification:

2003   Certification - American Board of Pediatrics, Subspecialty of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
1999   Limited Medical License, Massachusetts
1998   Certification in Pediatrics
1997   Full Medical License, California

Research Experience:

Dr. Huang has research interests in how chronic disease affects general nutrition, body composition and bone metabolism. She currently holds a NIH mentored career research award for the investigation of bone disease and body composition in the setting of HIV infection as well as several pilot-funding grants from the Academic Senate and Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Huang also has been pursuing clinical research interests in the area of pediatric obesity. In particular, she is interested in clinical variables that contribute to the development of obesity in children, including cultural factors, family and environmental factors, and body image perception. She has received funding for several pilot projects in these areas.

2000  Clinical Research Fellow
Preceptor: Steven Grinspoon, MD
Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Investigating the role of HIV and lipodystrophy in bone metabolism.

1998-1999  Research Assistant, Clinical Research
Preceptor: Joseph McCune, MD
Gladstone Institute, San Francisco, CA
Performed retrospective case review and data collection.

1994-1995   Research Assistant, Clinical Research
Preceptor: Frank Sinatra, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
Performed retrospective case review and data collection.

1993  Research Assistant, Clinical Research
Preceptor: George Dover, MD
Pediatric Hematology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Performed retrospective case review and data collection.

1992  Research Assistant
Preceptor: Charles Epstein, MD
Pediatric Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Performed tissue culture, PCR techniques, and enumerating gene copies.

1991  Research Assistant
Preceptor: Wing King, MD
Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Performed food sampling, PCR techniques.

1990-1991  Research Assistant
Preceptor: Penelope Dennehy, MD
Infectious Disease, Women & Infants' Hospital, Providence, RI
Performed ELISA techniques, tissue sampling, and data entry.

1990  Research Assistant
Preceptor: Jerome Siegel, PhD
Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Participated in animal handling and injection, microscopy techniques.

Professional Societies:

2001   Fellow Representative, Women's Committee, NASPGHAN
2000   Trainee Member, NASPGHAN
1999   Trainee Member, AGA
1996   American Academy of Pediatrics

Awards and Honors:

2002   Recipient of NIH Loan Repayment Program Award
2002   Recipient of Young Investigator Travel Award, Society for Pediatric Research
1999   Awarded Center for AIDS Research Pilot Project Stipend
1998   Awarded Frances Nunnally Most Outstanding Resident Award
1992   Awarded Pediatric Research Society Stipend Summer Research Project.
1991   Magna Cum Laude, Sigma Xi Society, Brown University

Grants:

2002   NIH/NIAID, K23 AI51947-01, Bone Marrow Fat and Osteopenia in HIV Lipodystrophy

Recent Publications:

Jeannie Huang MD, MPH, W. Allan Walker MD, Review of Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease and Nutrition, September 2004. ISBN:1-55009-300-2

McComsey GA, Huang JS, Woolley I, Young B, Sax PE, Gerber M, Swindells S, Bonilla H,
Gopalakrishnan G. Fragility Fractures in HIV-Infected Subjects: Need for better understanding of diagnosis and management. J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care. 2004; 3: 86-91.

Nguyen SH, Arias RA, Huang JS. Effects of Racial/Cultural Background on Parental Attitudes towards Childhood Obesity. 2004 Pediatric Academic Society Meeting, San Francisco. May, 2004.

Dolan SE, Huang JS, Killilea KM, Sullivan MP, Aliabadi N, Grinspoon S. Reduced bone density in HIV infected women. AIDS. 2004; 18; 475-483.

Huang JS, Wilkie SJ, Dolan S, Gallafent JH, Aliabadi N, Sullivan MP, Grinspoon S.  Reduced Testosterone Levels in HIV-infected Women with Weight Loss and Low Weight. Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Feb 15;36(4):499-506. Epub 2003 Jan 28.

Dolan SE*, Huang JS* (shared authorship), Sullivan MP, Aliabadi N, Grinspoon S. Reduced Bone Density in HIV-infected Women. AIDS. 2004 Feb 20;18(3):475-83.

Huang JS, Bousvaros A, Lee JW, Diaz A, Davidson EJ.  Efficacy of Probiotic Use in Acute Diarrhea in Children: A Meta-Analysis. Dig Dis Sci, 2002. Dig Dis Sci. 2002 Nov;47(11):2625-34.

Huang JS, Mulkern RV, Grinspoon S.  Reduced Intravertebral Bone Marrow Fat in HIV-Infected Men.  AIDS.  2002; 16: 1265-9.

Huang JS and Kleinman R. Chronic Hepatitis. In: Current Pediatric Therapy.  Burg FD, Polin RA, Ingelfinger JR, Gershon AA (editors).  Philadelphia: Saunders; 2002.  pp. 614-18.

Huang JS and Kleinman R. Acute Hepatitis. In: Current Pediatric Therapy.  Burg FD, Polin RA, Ingelfinger JR, Gershon AA (editors).  Philadelphia: Saunders; 2002.  pp. 611-14. 

Huang JS, Wilkie SJ, Sullivan MP, Grinspoon S.  Reduced bone density in androgen-deficient women with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Wasting.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab.  2001; 86: 3533-39.

Huang JS. Rietschel P. Hadigan CM. Rosenthal DI. Grinspoon S. Increased abdominal visceral fat is associated with reduced bone density in HIV-infected men with lipodystrophy.  AIDS.  2001; 15(8): 975-82.

Huang JS, Grinspoon S.  HIV and Bone Metabolism. The Endocrinologist.  2001; 11: 269-74.

Huang J. Rosenthal P. Is interferon therapy in pediatric chronic hepatitis B infection warranted? J Ped Gastroenterol Nutr 2000; 31(3): 217-8.

Huang SS, Barbour JD, Deeks SG, Huang JS, Grant RM, Ng VL, McCune JM.  Reversal of HIV-1 Associated Hematosuppression by Effective Antiretroviral Therapy.  Clin Inf Dis. 2000; 30(3): 504-10.

Begue RE, Dennehy PH, Huang J, Martin P.  Serotype Variation of Group A rotaviruses over nine winter epidemics in southeastern New England.  J Clin Microbiol. 1992; 30(6): 1432-5.

Books:

Huang JS, Walker WA: Review of Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease and Nutrition. BC Decker; (July 2004). ISBN: 1550093002