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Dr. Rob Squires received his B.A. from Austin College in Sherman, Texas in 1973 and M.D. from the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston in 1977. He completed his internship, residency, and served as Chief Resident at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis where he then completed his Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in 1982. Dr. Squires co-founded a private practice in pediatric gastroenterology at Cook-Ft. Worth Children’s Hospital in Texas in 1982. He was recruited to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and the Children’s Medical Center-Dallas in 1987 where he served a Clinical Director of Gastroenterology, Director of the Endoscopy Lab, Director of Nutrition Services, and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation. He was recruited to Pittsburgh in 2003.Dr. Squires is currently Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at UPMC--Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Squires has served the Division of Gastroenterology as Clinical Director, Director of Hepatology, Co-Director and Founder of the Intestinal Care and Rehabilitation Service, and Primary Liver Transplant Physician. He served as Principal Investigator for 2 NIH-funded multi-center, multi-national clinical studies: The Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Study Group and the Pediatric Intestinal Failure Consortium. He served as a site investigator for the NIH-sponsored Childhood Liver Disease Research Network and as a site Principal Investigator for pharmaceutical trials pursuing treatments for hepatitis C in children and genetic causes of cholestasis. His principal clinical research interests include acute liver failure, cholestasis in children, intestinal failure, and viral hepatitis. Dr. Squires has received several awards including the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Austin College, the Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus Award from University of Texas Medical Branch, and the Murray Davidson Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for life-time achievement in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.

Listed skills include Medical Education, Public Health, Gastroenterology, Clinical Research, and 15 others.