GeorgeJFuchsIIIMD

Pediatric Gastroenterology • Lexington, KY

Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gastroenterology, Pediatric Malabsorption Syndromes, Pediatric Nutrition

Professor Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine; Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky College of Public Health

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Office
Department of Pediatrics
138 Leader Ave.
Lexington, KY 40506
Phone+1 859-218-1676

Fax+1 859-257-7799

Summary

I am a physician scientist with specialty training in pediatrics and subspecialty training in pediatric infectious diseases, pediatric gastroenterology, and pediatric nutrition. I joined LSU School of Medicine in 1986, was on faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from 2001-2015, and joined the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 2015. I was seconded and in residence at research institutes in Thailand and Bangladesh for a 10 yr continuous period from 1992-2001. My areas of expertise include nutrition, low birth weight, diarrheal disease, and infection including the therapeutic and preventive interactions between micronutrients and infectious disease (diarrheal disease, pneumonia), malnutrition, and low birth weight. I have experience both as an investigator and director of programs in child and maternal health and nutrition, clinical case management, community-based public health, program monitoring and evaluation, and operations and programmatic research. I have related to child and maternal health as well as nutrition policy through involvement with global health organizations including WHO, World Bank, USAID, UNICEF, and others. I started a 6 year term in 2017 on the AAP, Committee on Nutrition. My work has been performed principally in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and United States. In June of 2015, I initiated an effectiveness trial that was completed in Nov. 2019 in the Bangladesh urban and rural health care systems on daycare management of children with pneumonia and malnutrition. My current research focus includes clinical trials of SARS-CoV-2vaccine trials in children and interventions for phenylketonuria.

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Is the BRAT Diet Still Beneficial?

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UK Pediatrician Contributes to Peanut Allergy Recommendation Reversal

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UK pediatrician uses his expertise to save children in Bangladesh

In developing countries, pneumonia is the leading cause of disease-related death in children ages 5 and younger, accounting for more than 1 million deaths a yea

UK, Cincinnati Children's team up to help 11-year-old with painful illness

Perched on an examination table at the Kentucky Clinic, Mackenzee Walters revealed a collection of bruises and scrapes on her knees - the traces of trampoline t

Education & Training

University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonFellowship, Pediatric Gastroenterology, 1985 - 1986
University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonFellowship, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 1984 - 1985
Tufts Medical CenterFellowship, Infectious Disease, 1983 - 1984
Tufts Medical CenterResidency, Pediatrics, 1981 - 1983
Phoenix Hospital Affiliated Pediatric ProgramInternship, Pediatrics, 1981 - 1981
University of Arizona College of Medicine-PhoenixInternship, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1981
University of Missouri-Columbia School of MedicineClass of 1980
University of Missouri-ColumbiaBA, Zoology, 1970 - 1974

Certifications & Licensure

KY State Medical License 2015 - 2025
AR State Medical License 2001 - 2015
LA State Medical License 1986 - 2001
TX State Medical License 1985 - 1991
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow (FAAP) American Academy of Pediatrics

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

8 citations
Stratification by obesity class, rather than age, can identify a higher percent of children at risk for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic dysfunction
Aurelia Radulescu, Adam Dugan, Mary Killian, Suzanna L Attia, Marialena Mouzaki
Pediatric Obesity. 2021-10-18
377 citations
Reslizumab in children and adolescents with eosinophilic esophagitis: results of a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Jonathan M. Spergel, Marc E. Rothenberg, Margaret H. Collins, Glenn T. Furuta, Jonathan E. Markowitz
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2012-02-01
174 citations
Metabolic Imbalance Associated with Methylation Dysregulation and Oxidative Damage in Children with Autism
Stepan Melnyk, George J. Fuchs, Eldon G. Schulz, Maya Lopez, Stephen G. Kahler
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2012-03-01

Journal Articles

Composition of Follow-Up Formula for Young Children Aged 12-36 Months: Recommendations of an International Expert Group Coordinated by the Nutrition Association of Tha...
Suthuvoravut U, Abiodun P, Chomtho S, Chongviriyaphan N, Cruchet S, Davies P, Fuchs G, Gopalan S, van Goudoever J, Nel E, Scheimann A, Spolidoro J, Tontisirin K, Wang ..., Ann Nutr Metab, 9/12/2015
Identification and Management of Acute Malnutrition in Hospitalized Children (Developed Country Perspective).
Vaughan J, Fuchs GJ, J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr, 2015
Malnutrition and Nutritional Support in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Fuchs GJ, Grand RJ, and Motil KJ, Nutritional Support Service 5:28-33, 1985
Pathogenesis of Shigella Diarrhea: Rabbit Intestinal Cell Microvillous Membrane Binding Site for Shigella Toxin.
Fuchs GJ, Mobassaleh M, Donohue-Rolfe A, Montgomery RK, Grand RJ, and Keusch GT, Infect Immun 53:372-377, 1986
Fatal Legionnaires' disease in an infant.
Fuchs GJ, LaRocco M, Robinson A, and Kohl S, Pediatr Infect Dis 5:377-379, 1986
Acinetobacter calcoaceticus Sepsis in children with malignancies.
Fuchs GJ, Culbert S, and Pickering LK, Pediatr Infect Dis 5:545-549, 1986
Endotoxemia in protein-calorie malnutrition.
Klein K, Fuchs GJ, Kulapongs P, Mertz G, and Suskind RM, J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 7:225-228, 1988
Fitting growth curve models to longitudinal data with missing observations.
Johnson WD, George VT, Shahane A, and Fuchs, GJ, Human Biology 64:243-253, 1992
Comparative metabolic study of older infants fed an infant formula, transition formula or whole cow's milk.
Fuchs GJ, Gastañaduy AS, and Suskind RM, Nutr Res 12:1467-1478, 1992
Gastrointestinal blood loss in older infants: Impact of cow's milk versus formula.
Fuchs GJ, DeWier M, Hutchinson SW, Sundeen M, Schwartz S, and Suskind RM, J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 16:4-9, 1993
Iron status and intake of older infants fed cow's milk with cereal versus formula.
Fuchs GJ, Farris RP, DeWier M, Hutchinson SW, Warrier R, Doucet H, and Suskind RM, Am J Clin Nutr 58:343-8, 1993
Training in invasive procedures for Infectious Disease specialists.
Fuchs GJ, Clin Infect Dis 17:942-3, 1993
Simplified dietary assessment to detect vitamin A deficiency.
Nimsakul S, Collumbien M, Likit-Ekaraj V, Suwanarach C, Tansuhaj A, and Fuchs GJ, Nutr Res 14:325-336, 1994
Cardiac function in malnourished children.
Phornphatkul C, Pongprot Y, Suskind RM, George V, and Fuchs GJ, Clin Pediatr 33:147-154, 1994
Effect of dietary fat on cardiovascular risk factors in infancy.
Fuchs GJ, Farris RP, DeWier M, Hutchinson SW, Strada R, and Suskind RM, Pediatrics 93:756-763, 1994
Quality protein maze as a weaning food.
Fuchs G, J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 18:406, 1994
Relationship between vitamin A deficiency, malnutrition, and conjunctival impression cytology.
Fuchs GJ, Ausayakhun S, Ruckphaopunt S, and Tansuhaj A, Am J Clin Nutr 1994;60:293-8
Effect of season on vitamin A intake and validity of the simplified dietary assessment (SDA) method.
Nimsakul S, Koottathep S, Likit-Ekaraj V, Wongworapat K, Suwanarach C, Taejaroenkul S, and Fuchs GJ, Nutr Res 1995;15:1613-21
Growth of older infants fed low-fat formula.
Fuchs GJ, Clemens RA, Hutchinson SW, DeWier M, Roche AF, Guo S, Chumlea WC, Khamis HJ, Witherly SA, Merritt RJ, Suskind RM, and Siervogel RM, Nutr Res 1996;16:391-400
Nutritional factors and thalassemia major.
Fuchs GJ, Tienboon P, Linpisarn S, Nimsakul S, Leelapat P, Tovanabutra S, Vanida Tubtong, DeWier M, and Suskind RM, Arch Dis Child 1996;74:224-227
Changing epidemiology of cholera due to Vibrio cholerae 01 and 0139 Bengal in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Faruque ASG, Fuchs GJ, and Albert J, Epidemiol Infect 1996;116:275-78
Faecal leucocytes in cholera due to Vibrio cholerae 0139 Bengal.
Khan AM, Rabbani GH, and Fuchs G, J Diarrhoeal Dis Res 1996;14:46-7
Risk factors for deaths in under-five children attending a diarrhoea treatment centre.
Teka T, Faruque ASG, and Fuchs GJ, Acta Pediatr 1996;85:1076-79
Tropical gastrointestinal and hepatic infections.
Bardhan P and Fuchs GJ, Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases 1996;9:303-307
Malnutrition and growth abnormalities in children with thalassemia major.
Tienboon P, Sanguansermsri T, and Fuchs GJ, Southeast Asian J Trop Med Pub Health 1996;27:356-61
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Books/Book Chapters

Pediatric Nutrition in Practice.
Chapter: Fluid and electrolytes.
Prince EN and Fuchs GJEditors: Koletzko B, Bhatia J, Bhutta ZA, Cooper P, Makrides M, Uauy R, Wang W..Kargerl, BaselEdition 2,2015
Amebiasis: Human infection by Entamoeba Histolytica.
Chapter: Amebiasis in the pediatric population
Page 594 - 613Fuchs GJ, Ruiz-Palacio G, and Pickering LKEditors: Ravdin, JI.Churchill Livingstone, New York
Burns in Children.
Chapter: Gastrointestinal Complications in Burned Children
Fuchs GJ and Gleason WAEditors: Carvajal, HF and Parks DH.Yearbook Medical Publishers, Inc., Chicago
The Malnourished Child.
Chapter: Long-term growth potential of previously malnourished children
Lewinter-Suskind L, Fuchs GJ, Kaewkantha S, and Suskind RMEditors: Suskind R and Suskind L.Raven Press, Ltd., New York
The Malnourished Child.
Chapter: Secondary malnutrition in children
Fuchs GJEditors: Suskind R and Suskind L.Raven Press, Ltd., New York
Textbook of Pediatric Nutrition.
Chapter: Enteral support of the hospitalized child
Fuchs GJEditors: RM Suskind and L Lewinter-Suskind.Raven Press, Ltd., New YorkEdition 2,
Prevention and treatment of Childhood Obesity.
Chapter: Recent Advances in the treatment of childhood obesity
Suskind RM, Sothern MS, Farris RP, von Almen TK, Shumacher H, Carlisle L, Vargas A, Escobar O, Loftin M, Fuchs G, Brown R, Udall Jr JNEditors: CL Williams and SYS Kim.The New York Academy of Sciences, New York
Conn’s Current Therapy.
Chapter: Cholera
Fuchs GJ and Khan WAEditors: Rakel RE.W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia
The Control of Food & Fluid Intake in Health and Disease.
Chapter: Fluid and Electrolyte Homeostasis in Infants and Children
Fuchs GJEditors: Farthing M.J.G., Mahalanabis D.Lippincott, Williams, Wilkens, Philadelphia
Conn’s Current Therapy.
Chapter: Cholera
Siaw E and Fuchs GJEditors: Rakel RE and Bope ET.W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia
Nutrition Support for Infants and Children at Risk.
Chapter: Chronic enteropathy: clinical aspects
Gibbons T, Fuchs GJEditors: Wahn U, Vandenplas Y, Cooke R.Karger, Basel
Pediatric Nutrition in Practice.
Chapter: Fluid and electrolytes
Fuchs GJEditors: Koletzko B.Karger, Basel
Probiotics in Pediatric Medicine.
Chapter: The role of probiotics in the treatment and prevention of infectious diarrhoea in children
Sarker SA, Fuchs GJEditors: Sherman P and Michail S.Humana Press, Inc., Ottawa
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Lectures

Committee on Nutrition Program
National Conference & Exhibition 2019 - American Academy of Pediatrics - New Orleans, LA - 10/28/2019
Malnutrition and Pneumonia Synergy: A Challenge to Health Systems in Developing Countries
Research Grand Rounds, Dept Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA - 8/2018
Nutrition and the 1ST 1000 Days
34th Annual ETSU Pediatrics Conference, Quillen College of Medicine, ETSU, Johnson City, TN - 8/2018
"Identifying the Malnourished Child"
34th Annual ETSU Pediatrics Conference, Quillen College of Medicine, ETSU, Johnson City, TN - 8/2018
“Severe Childhood Malnutrition: Developed Country Perspective”
Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University - 3/2017
Global Health Lecture: “Environmental Enteric Dysfunction”
Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine - 2/2017
“New approaches to prevention of peanut allergy in the U.S.”
Advances and Controversies in Clinical Nutrition, American Society for Nutrition, Orlando - 12/2016
: “Identifying the Malnourished Child”
12th Advances in Pediatric Nutrition, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - 11/2016
“Environmental Enteropathies and Childhood Diarrhea”
World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, (WCPGHAN) Meeting, Montreal - 10/2016
Meet the Professor session: “Global Health Research”
World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, (WCPGHAN) Meeting, Montreal - 10/1/2016
“Malnutrition and Pneumonia Synergy”
Pharmacology & Nutritional Sciences Seminar Series, University of Kentucky Global Health Lecture Ser - 9/2016
“A Challenge to Health Systems: The Malnourished Child with Pneumonia in Developing Countries”,
University of Kentucky Global Health Lecture Series - 12/2015
Global burden and management of moderate acute malnutrition
International Symposium and Workshop on Childhood Acute Malnutrition, Dhaka, Bangladesh - 6/2015
Malnutrition and Pneumonia Interaction.” Symposium on “Malnutrition in Asia
Symposium on “Malnutrition in Asia”, PAS/ASPR, Vancouver, Canada - 5/1/2014
Low birthweight and malnutrition
Symposium on “Malnutrition in Asia”, PAS/ASPR, Vancouver, Canada - 5/1/2014
Pneumonia-Malnutrition Synergy
Symposium Mgt Children with Pneumonia and Malnutrition in Developing Countries, Dhaka, Bangladesh - 1/2013
Results from the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP). Operations Research Project (ORP). Volume 4. –10).
ICDDR,B. Dhaka. August 2000
Pneumonia-Malnutrition Synergy.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Results from the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP) Operations Research Project (ORP). Volume 3.
ICDDR,B. Dhaka
Results from the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP) Operations Research Project (ORP). Volume 2.
ICDDR,B. Dhaka
Results from the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP) Operations Research Project (ORP): Volume 1.
ICDDR,B, Dhaka
Chronic Enteropathy.
Athens, Greece
Management of Refeeding Syndrome.
Toronto, Canada
Epidemiology of GI Disorders in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Washington, D.C
Nutritional management of the autistic child; where is the evidence?
Las Vegas, NV
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Press Mentions

UK HealthCare Doctors See Increase in Child COVID-19 HospitalizationsAugust 12th, 2021
University of Kentucky Chosen for International Clinical Trial to Develop Vaccine for Children 6mos.-11June 17th, 2021
Teen Girls’ Poor Diets Are Worrying DoctorsMay 3rd, 2021
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Committees

Member, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery Working Group, US News and World Report 2017-18 Best Children's Hospitals project 2017 - Present
Member, Committee on Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics 2017 - Present
Member, International Advisory Committee, “Community-based management of acute malnutrition among under-5 children in Bangladesh project” 2013 - Present
Member, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery Working Group, US News and World Report 2014-15 Best Children's Hospitals project 2013 - Present
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, “Hypernatremic dehydration in childhood diarrhea: an observational study of optimized treatment on case fatality and neurological complications”, funded by Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation. Dhaka Bangladesh 2012 - Present
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 2011 - Present
Member, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery Working Group, US News and World Report 2016-17 Best Children's Hospitals project 2016 - 2016
Member (representing the American Society for Nutrition [ASN]), Coordinating Committee, NIAID Food Allergy Clinical Guidelines Update. NIH 2015 - 2016
Member, Expert Committee, NIAID Food Allergy Clinical Guidelines Update, NIH 2015 - 2016
Member, Expert Committee, NIAID Food Allergy Clinical Guidelines update, National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2015 - 2015
Member, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery Working Group, US News and World Report 2015-16 Best Children's Hospitals project 2014 - 2014
Member, International Expert Consensus Group on the Compositional Requirements of Formula for Infants 12-36 Months of Age to support the development of a Codex Alimentarius standard 2014 - 2014
Organizer, Symposium and Workshop: “Symposium on Management of Children with Pneumonia and Malnutrition in Developing Countries”. Co-sponsored by UBS Optimus Foundation, UNICEF, Save the Children, and icddr,b. Dhaka, Bangladesh 2013 - 2013
Member, Committee, Research Prioritization in Childhood Diarrheal Disease: Case Management, Global Action Plan for Diarrhoea (DGAP), Programme for Global Paediatric Research. 2012 - 2012
Member, Committee on Research Prioritization in Childhood Diarrheal Disease: Emerging Therapies, Global Action Plan for Diarrhoea (DGAP), Programme for Global Paediatric Research 2012 - 2012
Member, International Expert Consensus Group on the Compositional Requirements of Follow- Up Formula to support the development of a Codex Alimentarius standard. 2012 - 2012
Member, Scientific Program Committee, North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) representative 4th World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition 2010 - 2012
Member, Publications Committee, North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) 2009 - 2012
Organizer, “Gastrointestinal Disorders in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders” Symposium and Workshop sponsored by North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology, and Nutrition, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Autism Speaks 2009 - 2009
Chair, GI Subcommittee, Autism Treatment Network (ATN) 2008 - 2012
Member (representing the American Society for Nutrition [ASN]), Coordinating Committee, NIAID Food Allergy Clinical Guidelines, NIH 2008 - 2011
Chair, Functional GI Disorders Working Group Gastrointestinal Aspects of Autism, The Autism Forum 2008 - 2008
Councilor, Executive Committee, North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) 2006 - 2009
Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, 3rd World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition Federation of International Societies of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (FISPGHAN) 2005 - 2008
Chair, Obesity Treatment Guideline Committee, North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) 2005 - 2008
Chair, Nutrition Committee, North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) 2003 - 2006