Charina Ramirez, M.D. Titles and Appointments Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Dr. Charina Ramirez received her medical degree from UT Medical Branch in Galveston. She completed her internship and residency training in pediatrics at UT Southwestern/Children’s Medical Center. Subsequently Dr. Ramirez completed her fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at UT Southwestern. During her fellowships, she served as a research fellow in lipid metabolism under the mentorship of Drs. John Dietschy and Stephen Turley. Her research interests have involved cholesterol transport in the murine models of Niemann-Pick Type C disease and Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency. Her current research project is evaluating the effects of a low carbohydrate diet in pediatric patients with metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Education Medical School University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (2003) Internship Children's Medical Center Dallas (2004), Pediatrics Residency Children's Medical Center Dallas (2006), Pediatric Medicine Fellowship UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2010), Pediatric Gastroenterology Research Interest Fatty liver disease Niemann-Pick type C disease Publications Call to action—Pediatric MASLD requires immediate attention to curb health crisis Hartmann P, Mouzaki M, Hassan S, Kehar M, Mysore KR, Mauney E, Nonga D, Karjoo S, Sood S, Tou A, Brichta C, Herdes RE, Pai N, Garner DK, Rinella ME, Noureddin M, Younossi Z, Allen AM, Sanyal A, Kohut T, Kohli R, Ramirez CM, Xanthakos S, Vos MB, Schwimmer JB, Ibrahim SH, Panganiban J Hepatology 2025 Nov 82 1341-1351 Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in children with obesity: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) and expert joint perspective 2025 Panganiban J, Kehar M, Ibrahim SH, Hartmann P, Sood S, Hassan S, Ramirez CM, Kohli R, Censani M, Mauney E, Cuda S, Karjoo S Obesity Pillars 2025 Jun 14 Utilization and perspectives of weight loss medications in pediatric metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease Kehar M, Ibrahim SH, Ramirez CM, Amin SA, Diamond T, Mohammad S Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2024 Sep 79 661-666 Electronic phenotypes to distinguish clinician attention to high body mass index, hypertension, lipid disorders, fatty liver and diabetes in pediatric primary care: Diagnostic accuracy of electronic phenotypes compared to masked comprehensive chart review Turer CB, Park JJ, Gupta OT, Ramirez C, Basit MA, Heitjan DF, Barlow SE Pediatric Obesity 2023 Oct 18 Update on glycogen storage disease: primary hepatic involvement Wright TL, Umaña LA, Ramirez CM Current opinion in pediatrics 2022 Oct 34 496-502 Molecular markers of brain cholesterol homeostasis are unchanged despite a smaller brain mass in a mouse model of cholesteryl ester storage disease Aqul AA, Ramirez CM, Lopez AM, Burns DK, Repa JJ, Turley SD Lipids 2022 Jan 57 3-16 The 21st Century Cures Act and Multiuser Electronic Health Record Access: Potential Pitfalls of Information Release Arvisais-Anhalt S, Lau M, Lehmann CU, Holmgren AJ, Medford RJ, Ramirez CM, Chen CN Journal of medical Internet research 2022 24 Diagnostic challenges and disease management in patients with a mild Zellweger spectrum disorder phenotype Enns GM, Ammous Z, Himes RW, Nogueira J, Palle S, Sullivan M, Ramirez C Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 2021 Nov 134 217-222 A Case of Dubin-Johnson Syndrome Presenting as Neonatal Cholestasis With Paucity of Interlobular Bile Ducts Chan KL, Varughese N, Jones PM, Zwick DL, Rajaram V, Lee M, Ramirez CM Pediatric and Developmental Pathology 2021 Apr 24 154-158 Hepatic Steatosis in the Pediatric Population: An Overview of Pathophysiology, Genetics, and Diagnostic Workup Phen C, Ramirez CM Clinical Liver Disease 2021 Mar 17 191-195 Results 1-10 of 22 1 2 3 Next Last Honors & Awards Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship GrantAra Parseghian Medical Research Foundation (2009-2010) Summa Cum LaudeUniversity of Houston (1999) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (2013) American Gastroenterological Association (2008) North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (2007) Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas (2012) Texas Medical Association (2003) The Obesity Society (2014)
