Education & Training
Medical School
University of Jordan
Internship
Transitional Year
- Jordan University Hospital (Amman)
Residency
Internal Medicine
- Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Fellowship
Gastroenterology
- Washington University School of Medicine
Boards
American Board of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology
Insurances
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Academic Information
Director of Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
Director of Hepatology Fellowship Program
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
Raymond E. and Vaona H. Peck Chair in Cancer Research
Office
1 Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212
United States
P. 573-882-7349
F. 573-884-4595
Research Interests
- Role of genetic and environmental alterations in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in development of fatty liver disease in pregnancy
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- Insulin resistance in animal models and human subjects
- Exploration of outcome research in GI malignancies
Areas of Expertise
- Liver disease in pregnancy
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- Colon cancer screening
Awards & Honors
- 2005 – current Raymond E. and Vaona H. Peck Endowed Chair, University of Missouri at Columbia
- 2005 – current Endowed Life Sciences Mission Enhancement Fund, University of Missouri at Columbia
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- 2005 – current American Diabetes Association
- 2006 – current Association of Clinical Research Training
- 2007 – current American Physiological Society
- 2007 – current Fellow, American Gastroenterological Association
- 2011 – current Society for Clinical and Transitional Science
- 2014 – current American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
- 2014 – current American Association for Advancement of Science
- 2015 – current Fellow, American College of Gastroenterology
- 2018 – current Fellow, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Publications
- Mucinski JM, Salvador AF, Moore MP, Fordham TM, Anderson JM, Shryack G, Cunningham RP, Lastra G, Gaballah AH, Diaz-Arias A, Ibdah JA, Rector RS, Parks EJ
Histological improvements following energy restriction and exercise: The role of insulin resistance in resolution of MASH.
J Hepatol. 2024 Jun 22;. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2024.06.017. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38914313. - Dashek RJ, Cunningham RP, Taylor CL, Alessi I, Diaz C, Meers GM, Wheeler AA, Ibdah JA, Parks EJ, Yoshida T, Chandrasekar B, Rector RS.
Hepatocellular RECK as a Critical Regulator of Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatohepatitis Development.
Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2024;18(3):101365. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2024.101365. Epub 2024 May 24. PubMed PMID: 38797477; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11278626. - Moore MP, Shryack G, Alessi I, Wieschhaus N, Meers GM, Johnson SA, Wheeler AA, Ibdah JA, Parks EJ, Rector RS.
Relationship between serum β-hydroxybutyrate and hepatic fatty acid oxidation in individuals with obesity and NAFLD.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2024 Apr 1;326(4):E493-E502. doi: 10.1152/ajpendo.00336.2023. Epub 2024 Feb 21. PubMed PMID: 38381399; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11194052. - Ramanathan R, Patwa SA, Ali AH, Ibdah JA.
Thyroid Hormone and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Therapeutic Implications for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).
Cells. 2023 Dec 9;12(24). doi: 10.3390/cells12242806. Review. PubMed PMID: 38132126; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10741470. - Ali AH, Nallapeta NS, Yousaf MN, Petroski GF, Sharma N, Rao DS, Yin F, Davis RM, Bhat A, Swi AIA, Al-Juboori A, Ibdah JA, Hammoud GM.
EUS-guided versus percutaneous liver biopsy: A prospective randomized clinical trial.
Endosc Ultrasound. 2023 May-Jun;12(3):334-341. doi: 10.1097/eus.0000000000000010. Epub 2023 Jul 25. PubMed PMID: 37693114; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10437149. - Moore MP, Wang X, Shi H, Meroni M, Cherubini A, Ronzoni L, Parks EJ, Ibdah JA, Rector RS, Valenti L, Dongiovanni P, Tabas I.
Circulating indian hedgehog is a marker of the hepatocyte-TAZ pathway in experimental NASH and is elevated in humans with NASH.
JHEP Rep. 2023 May;5(5):100716. doi: 10.1016/j.jhepr.2023.100716. eCollection 2023 May. PubMed PMID: 37035456; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10074197. - Mucinski JM, Perry AM, Fordham TM, Diaz-Arias A, Ibdah JA, Rector RS, Parks EJ.
Labeled breath tests in patients with NASH: Octanoate oxidation relates best to measures of glucose metabolism.
Front Physiol. 2023;14:1172675. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1172675. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 37153214; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10160408. - Jurrissen TJ, Ramirez-Perez FI, Cabral-Amador FJ, Soares RN, Pettit-Mee RJ, Betancourt-Cortes EE, McMillan NJ, Sharma N, Rocha HNM, Fujie S, Morales-Quinones M, Lazo-Fernandez Y, Butler AA, Banerjee S, Sacks HS, Ibdah JA, Parks EJ, Rector RS, Manrique-Acevedo C, Martinez-Lemus LA, Padilla J.
Role of adropin in arterial stiffening associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2022 Nov 1;323(5):H879-H891. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00385.2022. Epub 2022 Sep 9. PubMed PMID: 36083795; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9602697. - Ramanathan R, Ali AH, Ibdah JA.
Mitochondrial Dysfunction Plays Central Role in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Jun 30;23(13). doi: 10.3390/ijms23137280. Review. PubMed PMID: 35806284; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9267060. - Cunningham RP, Moore MP, Dashek RJ, Meers GM, Jepkemoi V, Takahashi T, Vieira-Potter VJ, Kanaley JA, Booth FW, Rector RS.
Hepatocyte-specific eNOS deletion impairs exercise-induced adaptations in hepatic mitochondrial function and autophagy.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022 May;30(5):1066-1078. doi: 10.1002/oby.23414. Epub 2022 Mar 31. PubMed PMID: 35357089; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9050943. - Méndez-Sánchez N, Bugianesi E, Gish RG, Lammert F, Tilg H, Nguyen MH, Sarin SK, Fabrellas N, Zelber-Sagi S, Fan JG, Shiha G, Targher G, Zheng MH, Chan WK, Vinker S, Kawaguchi T, Castera L, Yilmaz Y, Korenjak M, Spearman CW, Ungan M, Palmer M, El-Shabrawi M, Gruss HJ, Dufour JF, Dhawan A, Wedemeyer H, George J, Valenti L, Fouad Y, Romero-Gomez M, Eslam M.
Global multi-stakeholder endorsement of the MAFLD definition.
Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2022 May;7(5):388-390. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(22)00062-0. Epub 2022 Mar 3. PubMed PMID: 35248211. - Khare S, Khare T, Ramanathan R, Ibdah JA.
Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Role of MicroRNAs.
Biomolecules. 2022 Apr 27;12(5). doi: 10.3390/biom12050645. Review. PubMed PMID: 35625573; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9138333. - Ramanathan R, Ibdah JA.
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy.
Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Mar 25;23(7). doi: 10.3390/ijms23073595. Review. PubMed PMID: 35408956; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8999031. - Moore MP, Cunningham RP, Dashek RJ, Mucinski JM, Rector RS.
A Fad too Far? Dietary Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of NAFLD.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 Oct;28(10):1843-1852. doi: 10.1002/oby.22964. Epub 2020 Sep 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 32893456; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7511422. - Thyfault JP, Rector RS.
Exercise Combats Hepatic Steatosis: Potential Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.
Diabetes. 2020 Apr;69(4):517-524. doi: 10.2337/dbi18-0043. Review. PubMed PMID: 32198195; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7085252. - Hammoud GM, Quick J, Samiullah S, Rao D, Ibdah JA.
Endoscopic full-thickness resection of a long intussuscepted appendix by use of a colonoscope.
VideoGIE. 2019 Jan;4(1):34-36. doi: 10.1016/j.vgie.2018.10.001. eCollection 2019 Jan. PubMed PMID: 30623159; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6317908.
Book Chapters
- Arif M., Sathyamurthy A., Winn J., Ibdah J.A.
Gastrointestinal diseases and pregnancy. In: Clinical Maternal-Fetal Medicine Online (2nd ed). Winn HN, Chervenak FA, Romero R (eds). 2021 (CRD Press). - Hammoud G.M., Ibdah J.A.
Liver Disorders in Pregnancy. In: Clinical Maternal-Fetal Medicine Online (2nd ed). Winn HN, Chervenak FA, Romero R (eds). 2021 (CRC Press).
Abstracts & Posters
- Anderson, J.M., Rector, R.S., Ibdah J.A., Parks, E.J.
“Effects of early weight loss on nonalcoholic steatohepatitis improvements during a lifestyle program”. Obesity 29: 90-90, 2021. - Swi, A., Syed-Abdul, M.M., Wheeler, A.A., Ganga, R.R., Diaz-Arias, A., Rector, R.S., Ibdah J.A., Parks, E.J.
“Comparison of the Dallas steatosis index (DSI) with NAFLD histological scoring in Bariatric surgery patients.
Hepatology 74: 945A-945A, 2021. - Ali, A.H., Petroski, G.F., Diaz-Arias, A.A., Al Juboori, A., Wheeler, A.A., Ganga ,R.R., Pitt, J.B., Spencer, N.M., Hammoud, G.M., Rector, R.S., Parks, E.J., Ibdah J.A.
“The utility and diagnostic performance of fibroscan in adults with morbid obesity”.
Hepatology 74: 991A-992A, 2021. - Sharma, N., Ramanathan, R., Johnson, S., Ibdah, J.A.
“Reduced hepatic mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in Veterans with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and hepatic fibrosis”.
Hepatology 74: 1095A-1095A, 2021. - Ramanathan, R., Johnson, S., Ibdah, J.A.
“Thyroid hormone increases hepatic mitochondrial quality and rescues NAFLD in mice”.
Hepatology 74: 1095A-1095A, 2021. - Ali, A.H., Petroski, G.F., Diaz-Arias, A.A., Al Juboori, A., Wheeler, A.A., Ganga ,R.R., Pitt, J.B., Spencer, N.M., Hammoud, G.M., Rector, R.S., Parks, E.J., Ibdah J.A.
“Alkaline Phosphatase Is an Independent Predictor of Significant Liver Fibrosis in Obese Subjects with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”.
Am. J. Gastroenterol. 116: S503- S504, 2021. - Mucinski, J.M., Nallapeta, N.S., Moore, M.P, Ibdah, J.A., Rector, R.S., Parks, E. J.
“Lifestyle Treatment-Induced Improvements in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)”.
Diabetes 70: S1, 2021. - Moore, M.P., Cunningham, R., Meers, G.M., Johnson, S.A., Wheeler, A.A., Ganga, R. R., Pitt, J., Spencer, N., Diaz-Arias, A.A., Swi, A., Parks, E.J., Ibdah, J.A., Rector, R.S
“Reduced Hepatic Mitochondrial Metabolism and Markers of Mitochondrial Turnover in Humans Are Linked to NAFLD Progression”.
Diabetes 69: S1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2337/db20-311-OR 166. - Mucinski, J.M., Sharma, N., Moore, M.P, Ibdah, J.A., Rector, R.S., Parks, E. J.
“Role of Glucose Flux to Elevate Hepatic Lipogenesis in Biopsy-Proven NASH”.
Diabetes 69: S1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2337/db20-310-OR - Mankoo, R., Malik, L., Habib, M., Smith, Z., Kuwajima, V., Ibdah, J. A., Tahan, V.
“Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumor of Unknown Primary Presenting as Acute Gastrointestinal Bleed With Hemorrhagic Shock"
American Journal of Gastroenterology 114: 2031 (pp. S1137–S1138), 2019. - Khalaf, S., Albarrak, A., Yousef, M., Tahan, V., Ibdah, J.
“Melanoma Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors-Induced Colitis, Stay Vigilant!”.
American Journal of Gastroenterology 114: 1488, 2019. - Smith, Z., Yezaz, G., Ibdah, J., Tahan, V.
“Ulcerative Colitis With Concomitant Serrated Polyposis Syndrome”.
American Journal of Gastroenterology Vol. 114: 1527, 2019. 61 61 - Rossow, B., Hammoud, G., Tahan, V., Ibdah, J., Mahdi, A., Romana, B., Samiullah, S.
“Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Drainage and Treatment of Symptomatic WalledOff Pancreatic Necrosis: A Single Center Case Series."
American Journal of Gastroenterology 114: 2937, 2019. - Khalaf, S., Yousef, M., Albarrak, A., Kuwajima, V., Ibdah, J., Tahan, V. (2019).
“Acute Liver Failure Caused by Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Secondary to Aggressive Natural Killer Cell Leukemia and Epstein-Barr Virus Reactivation.”.
American Journal of Gastroenterology 114: 2366, 2019.
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