Dr. Kublaoui holds a dual undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in Biochemistry and Psychology where he was recipient of the Rutgers University Merit Scholarship and Deans Award for Excellence, a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, and a Summa Cum Laude Graduate. He completed both his medical degree and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Boston University School of Medicine where he was chapter president of Alpha Omega Alpha for a year, received the Dennison Foundation Fellowship, Russek, and Mehos awards, and a Magna Cum Laude graduate. He completed a residency in both pediatrics and internal medicine at the Harvard Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Program, and a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at UT Southwestern.
Immediately following the completion of his fellowship in 2005, which included an ongoing study on the mutations of the SIM1 gene’s cause of obesity in mice and humans, he became faculty and is now an assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology with a secondary appointment to the Department of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Kublaoui is an attending physician at Children?s Medical Center of Dallas and is on staff at its Endocrinology Center where he treats patients in a teaching environment. He holds certifications by the American Board of Pediatrics in both General Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology, as well as certifications by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Internal Medicine and Endocrinolgy. His laboratory at his academic office will continue to study the Sim1 gene and its effects on obesity.
His activity in the endocrinology community continues as he is a member of the American Medical Association, Texas Medical Association and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
