Alyssa A. Kriegermeier, MD
Attending Physician, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Accepting New Patients:
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Yes
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Offering Telemedicine Visits:
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Yes
Location
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
225 E. Chicago Ave.Chicago, Illinois 60611
About
As a pediatric hepatologist, Dr. Kriegermeier cares for children with transient and chronic liver diseases, as well as those that require liver transplantation. She is very grateful for the opportunity to care for our amazing patients. She enjoys building relationships with patients and families, and working collaboratively to keep children as healthy as they can be so they can thrive in all areas of life.
Her research includes working in a lab studying the underlying pathophysiology of pediatric cholestatic liver diseases using animal models. My research focus is on an area called the unfolded protein response and how this impacts liver cell health during times of cholestasis and other stresses.
Clinically, she care for pediatric patients with liver disease and those that have received liver transplants. Additionally, she is the Hepatology lead for the Single Ventricle Clinic here at Lurie Children's and cares for patients with Fontan physiology who are at risk of developing liver fibrosis.
Clinical Interests
Pediatric liver disease, genetic cholestatic liver diseases, neonatal cholestasis, liver transplantation, Fontan associated liver disease
Specialty
Program
Conditions Treated
- Childhood Abdominal Pain
- Biliary Atresia
- Celiac Disease
- Colic
- Constipation
- Crohn's Disease
- Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Diarrhea
- Dysphagia
- Encopresis
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE)
- Failure to Thrive
- Feeding Aversion/Disorder
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Helicobacter Pylori
- Hepatitis
- Hirschsprung's Disease
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Intestinal Malrotation & Volvulus
- Intussusception
- Lactose Intolerance
- Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis
- Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
- Portal Hypertension
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Vomiting
- Liver Failure
- Liver Enlargement
- Fetal Ascites
- Cholestasis
- Jaundice
- Liver Encephalopathy
Education & Training
Education: Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago, 2011
Postgraduate Training: Fellowship in pediatric transplant hepatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2017-2018; Fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2014-2017; Residency in pediatrics, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, 2011-2014
Board Certifications: Pediatric Gastroenterology, Pediatric Transplant Hepatology, Pediatrics
