User:Xiaotuan Zhao, MD

Xiaotuan Zhao, MD, 2107 Kangaroo Trail, Harker Herghts TX 76548 Phone: (245)-519-8490 (H), Faxl: (254)-519-8495 E-mail: ZXTHAPPY88@YAHOO.COM

Post-Graduate Medical Education

Fellowship in Gastroenterology, July 2001 – June 2004

     	University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX USA
         	Residency in Internal Medicine, July 1998 – June 2001 
    	Department of Medicine, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY USA
           Chief Resident in General Surgery, July 1989-June 1990,  

ShangHai Second Medical University, Shanghai, Ruijin Hospital. P. R. China

Education in Medical Schools

MSPH. June 2004, UTMB, Texas

     	PhD. 		June 1991, Shanghai Second Medical University, P.R. China

MS. June 1986, Hunan Medical University, P. R. China MD. June 1983, Xuzhou Medical School, Jiangsu, P. R. China

Employment Experience

Hospital Staff, Gastroenterologist, Jan. 2007 – Present Gastroenterology Clinic Metroplex Health Hospital, Killeen Texas Assistant Professor, July 2004 – Dem. 2006 Division of Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, Tyler TX Postdoctoral researcher, Oct. 1993 – June 1998

    	Division of Gastroenterology, 
     	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 

Research Fellow, Oct. 1992 – Sept. 1993 Division of Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

           Faculty Member, Feb. 1991 - Sept. 1992
    	Department of GI Surgery, Ruijin Hospital
    	Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai, China

Memberships

    	AGA member 
    	ASGE member

Licenses

Texas License.

Certifications

Gastroenterology Jan. 2006 Board of Internal Medicine Aug. 2001. Advanced cardiac life support 12. 2012

Personal information

American Citizen, Married, one child in college, and excellent health

Oral Presentations and Publications:

1. Zhao XT, Role of Nitric oxide and pyloric tone in intestinal electric stimulation-induced delayed gastric emptying in dogs. Ninth annual young investigator award, Huntington Beach, CA, USA, April 2004. (oral presentation) 2. Zhao XT, Sustained effect of electric stimulation on small intestinal motility. Eighth Young investigator award, Phoenix, Arizona, USA April 2003. (oral presentation) 3. Zhao XT, Pasricha PJ. Novel surgical approaches to fecal incontinence: Neurostimulation and Artificial Anal sphincter. Current Report of Gastroenterology 2003 (5). 4. Zhao XT, Pasricha PJ. Botulinum toxin for spastic GI disorders: a systematic review. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2003;57:219-35 5. Raju GS, Nath S, Zhao XT, et al. Duodenal diverticular hemostasis with hemoclip placement on the bleeding and feeder vessels: a case report. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2003; 57:116-7. 6. Lin HC, Perdomo OL, Zhao XT. Intestinal transit in dogs is accelerated by volume distension during fat-induced jejunal break. Dig. Dis. Sci. 2001;46:19-23. 7. Zhao XT, Wang LJ, Lin HC. Slowing of intestinal transit by fat depends on naloxone-blokable efferent, opioid pathway. Am J Physiol 278:G866-70,2000. 8. Zhao XT, Walsh JH, Wong H, Wang LJ, Lin HC. Intestinal fat-induced inhibition of meal-stimulated gastric acid secretion depends on CCK but not PYY. Am J Physiol 1999; 276(2pt):G550-5. 9. Lin HC, Van Ditters GW, Zhao XT, Waxman A. Fat intolerance depends on rapid gastric emptying. Dig Dis Sci, 1999;44(2):330-5. 10. Papers in review and abstracts are available.