Rima L Fawaz, MD

Biography

Originally from Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Rima Fawaz received her undergraduate and medical degree at the American University of Beirut. She then completed her pediatric residency at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, Gastroenterology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center and her Pediatric Transplant Hepatology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Once she completed her training, Dr. Fawaz moved to Boston to work in the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Mass General Hospital for Children for 3 years before transitioning to Boston Children's Hospital for 11 years to devote more time to the care of transplant patients. At Boston Children's Hospital, she was appointed the Medical Director of Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplant Program, spending much of her time treating complex patients with end stage liver disease and intestinal failure referred both nationally and internationally. Dr Fawaz was recruited to Yale University School of Medicine and appointed to the Medical Director of Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation in September 2019. Since being at Yale, Dr Fawaz has worked on establishing a collaborative relationship with obesity medicine and endocrinology; and she became a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She is Yale Site Investigator for multiple national and international studies including all fields of pediatric hepatology and transplantation. Dr Fawaz other clinical expertise include cholestasis as seen by her first author publication on the Guideline for neonatal Cholestasis for NASPGHAN and involvement with FISHPGHAN updated Guidelines.