Manu Sood, MD

Titles
Program director, GI Motility, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; associate professor, Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Research interests
Gastrointestinal diseases

Study interests
Chronic constipation, chronic visceral pain, defecation disorders, gastroenterology motility, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Hirschsprings disease.

Education
Medical degree, Manchester University, United Kingdom, 1988; pediatric residency, Birmingham Children's Hospital, United Kingdom, 1993; pediatric fellowship, Birmingham Children's Hospital, United Kingdom, 2000.

Honors
Merit Student Member of Central Students Association, Government College, Shimla, 1982; Travel Award, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 1996; the Travel Award, American Motility Society, 2000.

Representative publications

• Hyman PE, Bursch R, Sood M, Schwankovsky L, Cocjin J, Zeltzer L. Visceral Pain Associated Disability Syndrome: A Descriptive Analysis. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2002; 35:663.8.
• Villarreal J, Sood M, Zangen T, Flores A, Michel R, Reddy N, DiLorenzo C, Hyman PE. Colonic Diversion for Intractable Constipation in Children: Colonic Manometry Guides Clinical Decision. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2001; 33:588-591.
• Sood M, Rudolph C. Gastroesophageal Reflux in Adolescent. Adolescent Medicine Clin. 2004; 15(1): 17-36.
• Sood M. Irritable Bowel Syndrome. In Bob Baldassano, Jon Markowitz, Petar Mamula (eds.). Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Textbook, lst edition.
• Altaf MA, Rudolph CD, SWerlin SL, Sood MR. Colonic Volvulus in Children with Intestinal Motility Disorders: A Diagnostic Dilemma. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. In press.

Grants

• Capsaicin-sensitive Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid One (TRPV1) and Tyrosine Kinase (TrkA) Receptor Expression in Children with Retrosternal Pain, Children's Research Institute, principal investigator.
• Effect of Age and Gender on Activation of Brain Regions Associated with Visceral Pain in Children with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Healthy Controls, Digestive Diseases Center, principal investigator.

Contact
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
PO Box 1997
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: (414) 266-6974
Fax: (414) 266-3676
E-mail: Msood@mcw.edu