Eduardo D. Ruchelli, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Contact InformationDepartment of Pathology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
34th and Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2155901728
Email: edr@mail.med.upenn.edu
Clinical Expertise
Pediatric Pathology (perinatal pathology and pediatric gastrointestinal and liver pathology)
Education
M.D. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1980
Specialty Certification
Anatomic Pathology/Clinical Pathology - American Board of Pathology, 1987
Pediatric Pathology - American Board of Pathology, 1990
American Board of Pathology
voluntary re-certification, 2014
Postgraduate Training
Ob/Gyn Resident, National Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1981-1982
Pathology Resident, Department of Pathology, The Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1983-1987
Chief Resident, Department of Pathology, The Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1986-1987
Developmental/Pediatric Pathology Fellow, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Magee-Women’s Hospital, 1987-1989
Awards and Honors
Academic Honors (Diploma de Honor), Class standing: upper 10%, 1980
Best paper presentation by a resident/fellow, Society for Pediatric Pathology interim meeting: "Correlation between ultrasound and pathologic examination in first trimester pregnancies", 1988
Memberships and Professional Organizations
US and Canadian Academy of Pathology, - Present
Society for Pediatric Pathology, - Present
Web Links
Selected Publications
Molecular and Immunohistochemical Analyses of the Focal Form of Congenital Hyperinsulinism
Suchi M, MacMullen C, Thornton PS, Adzick NS, Ganguly A, Ruchelli ED, Stanley CA., Mod Pathol 1(): 122-9, 2006
Preoperative evaluation of infants with focal or diffuse congenital hyperinsulinism by intravenous acute insulin response tests and selective pancreatic arterial calcium stimulation
Stanley CA., Thornton PS., Ganguly A., MacMullen C., Underwood P., Bhatia P., Steinkrauss L., Wanner L., Kaye R., Ruchelli E., Suchi M., Adzick NS., Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 89(1): 288-96, 2004
A multidisciplinary approach to the focal form of congenital hyperinsulinism leads to successful treatment by partial pancreatectomy
Adzick NS, Thornton PS, Stanley CA, Kaye R, Ruchelli E, J Pediatr Surg 39(): 270-5, 2004
Congenital hyperinsulinism: intraoperative biopsy interpretation can direct the extent of pancreatectomy
Suchi M, Thornton PS, Adzick NS, MacMullen C, Ganguly A, Stanley CA, Ruchelli ED, Am J Surg Pathol 28(10): , 2004
Histopathology of congenital hyperinsulinism: retrospective study with genotype correlations
Suchi M, MacMullen C, Thornton PS, Ganguly A, Stanley CA, Ruchelli E, Pediatr Dev Pathol 6(): 322-33, 2003, PMID:14692646
Clinical and molecular characterization of a dominant form of congenital hyperinsulinism caused by a mutation in the high-affinity sulfonylurea receptor
Thornton PS., MacMullen C., Ganguly A., Ruchelli E., Steinkrauss L., Crane A., Aguilar-Bryan L., Stanley CA., Diabetes 52(9): 2403-10, 2003
Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A 10 year experience in 381 children
Liacouras CA, Spergel JM, Ruchelli E, Verma R, Mascarenhas M, Semeao E, Flick J, Kelly J, Brown-Whitehorn T, Mamula P, Markowitz J., Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 3(): 1198-1206, 2005
Esophageal disorders in childhood (Chapter 2)
Ruchelli ED, Liacouras CA, Pathology of pediatric gastrointestinal and liver disease, 2004
Eosinophilic esophagitis
Liacouras CA, Ruchelli E, Curr Opin Pediatr 16(): 560-566, 2004, PMID:15367851
Pollen and eosinophilic esophagitis
Fogg MI., Ruchelli E., Spergel JM., Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology 112(4): 796-7, 2003
Pathology of pediatric gastrointestinal and liver disease
Russo P, Ruchelli ED, Piccoli DA (eds), , 2004
Primary eosinophilic esophagitis in children: succesful treatment with oral corticosteroids.
Liacouras CA, Wenner WJ, Brown K, Ruchelli E, J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 26(): 380-385, 1998
Severity of esophageal eosinophilia predicts response to conventional gastroesophageal reflux therapy.
Ruchelli E., Voytek T., Wenner W., Brown K., Liacouras C, Pediatr Develop Pathol 2(): 15-18, 1999
