Richard J. Noel, MD, PhD

Gastroenterology and Nutrition                      

Title(s): Program director, Endoscopy, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; assistant professor, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: Medical degree, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, 1998; doctorate, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, 1998; residency, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C., 1998-2001; fellowship, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, 2001.

Certification(s): Pediatrics.

Research interests: Feeding disorders, reflux disease and eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease.

Representative publications:

• Noel RJ, Putnam PE, Collins MH, Assa'ad AH, Guajardo JR, Jameson SC, Rothenberg ME. Clinical and Immunopathologic Effects of Swallowed Fluticasone for Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2004; 2:568-75.
• Noel RJ, Putnam PE, Rothenberg ME. Eosinophilic Esophagitis. New England Journal of Medicine. 2004; 351:940-1.
• Noel RJ, Glock MS, Pranikoff T, Hill ID. Nonobstructive Antral Web: An Unusual Cause of Excessive Crying in an Infant. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2000; 31:439-41.
• Noel RJ, Antinozzi PA, McGarry JD, Newgard CB. Engineering of Glycerol-stimulated Insulin Secretion in Islet Beta Cells. Differential Metabolic Rates of Glucose and Glycerol Provide Insight into Mechanisms of Stimulus-secretion Coupling. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1997; 272:18621-7.
• Becker TC, Noel RJ, Johnson JH, Lynch RM, Hirose H, Tokuyama Y, Bell GI, Newgard CB. Differential Effects of Overexpressed Glucokinase and Hexokinase I in Isolated Islets. Evidence for Functional Segregation of the High and Low Km Enzymes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1996; 271:390-4.
• Becker TC, BeltrandelRio H, Noel RJ, Johnson JH, Newgard CB. Overexpression of Hexokinase I in Isolated Islets of Langerhans via Recombinant Adenovirus. Enhancement of Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Secretion at Basal but not Stimulatory Glucose Levels. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1994; 269:21234-8.

Contact information: PO Box 1997, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1997. Phone: (414) 266-3690. Fax: (414) 266-3676. E-mail: rnoel@mcw.edu.