Benjamin J. Wilkins, MD, PhD

Appointments and Referrals: 1-800-TRY-CHOP (1-800-879-2467)
MD - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
Anatomic Pathology - Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Pediatric Pathology - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Anatomic Pathology – American Board of PathologyPediatric Pathology – American Board of Pathology
PhD in Molecular and Developmental Biology - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
Attending Pathologist
Researcher
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Zhao Xiao, Lorent Kristin, Wilkins Benjamin J, Marchione Dylan M, Gillespie Kevin, Waisbourd-Zinman Orith, So Juhoon, Koo Kyung Ah, Shin Donghun, Porter John R, Wells Rebecca G, Blair Ian, Pack Michael: Glutathione antioxidant pathway activity and reserve determine toxicity and specificity of the biliary toxin biliatresone in zebrafish. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 64(3): 894-907, Sep 2016.
Chandramouleeswaran PM, Shen D, Lee AJ, Benitez A, Dods K, Gambanga F, Wilkins BJ, Merves J, Noah Y, Toltzis S, Yearley JH, Spergel JM, Nakagawa H, Malefyt Rd, Muir AB, Wang ML.: Preferential Secretion of Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin (TSLP) by Terminally Differentiated Esophageal Epithelial Cells:Relevance to Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE). PLoS One 11(3): e0150968, March 2016.
Shen TC, Albenberg L, Bittinger K, Chehoud C, Chen YY, Judge C, Wang L, Ni J, Sheng M, Lin A, Wilkins BJ, Buza A, Lewis J, Daikhin Y, Nissim I, Yudkoff M, Bushman F, Wu G.: Engineering the gut microbiota to treat hyperammonemia. J Clin Invest 25(7): 2841-50, Jul 2015.
Wilkins BJ and Pack M: Zebrafish cirh1a, the homolog of the North American Indian Childhood Cirrhosis (NAIC) disease gene, is required for ribosome biogenesis and liver and gastrointestinal development. The Liver Meeting, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) November 2016.
Wilkins BA. Esophageal atresia caused by smooth muscle myosin dysregulation. Oral presentation at: Society for Pediatric Pathology Spring Meeting; 2015 Mar; Boston, MA.
2014, Lotte Strauss Prize, Society for Pediatric Pathology
2012, Harry B. Neustein Award, Society for Pediatric Pathology
1994-1998, Summa Cum Laude, John Carroll University
2016-present, World Journal of Gastroenterology
2016-present, Pediatric and Developmental Pathology
2010-present, Society for Pediatric Pathology
- Research Committee