Department of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
The Department of Pediatrics

Faculty Biography

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston is dedicated to improving the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.


Dr. Wallace Gleason

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Education:

The Creighton University, 1962-1965

B.S.: The University of Minnesota, 1967

M.D: The University of Minnesota, 1969

Internship, Residency, Fellowship: St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 1969-1974

Clinical and Research Interests:

  1. Digestive and nutritional problems of infants and children
  2. Mechanism of vitamin D enhanced intestinal calcium absorption
  3. Gastrointestinal development
  4. Protein-losing enteropathy in infants and children.
Calcium Binding Activity

Publications (selected):

  • Gleason WA: Conjugated and Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia and Disorders of the Hepatobiliary Tree, Chapter 10-11 in Burg, FD, Ingelfinger JR and Polin RA and Gershon AA (eds) Current Pediatric Therapy, 18th edition, 2006, Philadelphia, Elsevier, Inc pp 560-563
  • Gleason WA: Protein-losing Enteropathy, Chapter 17.21.6 in Rudolph CD, Rudolph AM, Hostetter M K, Lister G, and Siegel NJ (eds) Rudolph's Pediatrics, 21st Edition, New York, McGraw Hill, 2003, pp. 1449-50
  • Gleason WA: Protein-losing Enteropathy, in Wylie R and Hyams JS (eds)" Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management", Philadelphia, WB Saunders Company, 2nd edition, 1999, pp. 298-305

Presentations:

  • Gleason WA and Lankford GL: Intestinal calcium-binding protein in the developing rat duodenum. (Presented to the Society for Pediatric Research, San Francisco, CA, May 28, 1981). Pediatr. Res. 15:533, 1981.
  • Gleason WA and Lankford GL: Biochemical characterization of the rat intestinal calcium-binding protein (CaBP). (Presented to the 5th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, San Antonio, TX, June 5, 1983). Calcified Tissue Int. 35:693, 1983.
  • Gleason WA, Kitagawa S and Shulman RJ: Improved prognosis after neonatal small bowel resection, Presented to the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Chicago, IL. October 30-31, 1992.
  • Gleason WA, Figueroa-Colon R, Robinson LH, Browder-Hughes S, Phillips R, Fleischman C, Frank D and Nester T: A double-blind, parallel group, placebo controlled study of lactulose in the treatment of encopresis in children with chronic constipation. Presented to the 96th annual meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association, San Diego, CA, May 14-17, 1995. Gastroenterology 108:A606, 1995.

 

Faculty Biography

  • Dr. Wallace Gleason
    Professor
  • Department of Pediatrics
    Division of Gastroenterology
  • Assistant Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs
  • University of Texas-Houston Medical School
    6431 Fannin Street, MSB G.420
    Houston, Texas 77030
  • phone: (713) 500-5662
    fax: (713) 500-0604
    e-mail: Wallace.A.Gleason@ uth.tmc.edu
  • Executive Assistant:
    Nancy Murphy | (713) 500-5123
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