Tamir Diamond, MD

Penn Medicine Clinician of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition)
Attending Physician, Urgent Care, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Instructor, Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Research Member, Fred and Suzanne Biesecker Pediatric Liver Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Member, Protective Immunity and Immunopathology Research Affinity Group, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of GI, Hepatology and Nutrition
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Division of GI, Hepatology and Nutrition
3401 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-3630
Fax: 215-590-3606
Fax: 215-590-3606
Publications
Links
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Lab website
a collaborative initiative aiming to facilitate learning and engagement amongst all trainees interested in hepatology.
Search PubMed for articles
Lab website
a collaborative initiative aiming to facilitate learning and engagement amongst all trainees interested in hepatology.
Education:
B.Sc (Biology and Middle Eastern History )
Tel Aviv University, 2011.
MD (Medicine )
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 2015.
MSTR (Translational Research)
University of Pennsylvania , 2024.
Permanent linkB.Sc (Biology and Middle Eastern History )
Tel Aviv University, 2011.
MD (Medicine )
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 2015.
MSTR (Translational Research)
University of Pennsylvania , 2024.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Pediatric HepatologyPediatric Gastroenterology
Liver Transplant
Description of Research Expertise
Immune dysregulation disordersAcute liver failure
Liver immunobiology
Mouse models
Hepatitis
Innate immunity
Adaptive immunity
Selected Publications
Tamir Diamond and Kathleen M. Loomes: Chapter 71- Pediatric Cholestatic Liver Disease. Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 7th edition. Robert Wyllie, Jeffrey S. Hyams, Marsha Kay (eds.). Elvasier, March 2025 Notes: In Press.Ma S, Habash NW, Dehankar MK, Jalan-Sakrikar N, Cooper SA, Anwar AA, Jerez S, Sutthirat P, Gao J, Diamond T, Jiao J, Qiu C, Yang J, Ilyas SI, Lee M, Yaqoob U, Cao S, Wells RG, Shah VH, Hilscher MB.: Congestion Enriches Intra-hepatic macrophages Through Reverse Zonation of CXCL9 in Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol Feb 2025.
Diamond T, Kamath BM.: Bile acid transport inhibitors in paediatric hepatology: more than just an itch. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol Oct 2024.
Catherine A Chapin, Tamir Diamond , Adriana Perez, Portia A Kreiger, Kathleen M Loomes, Edward M Behrens, Estella M Alonso : Identification of pediatric activated T-cell hepatitis using clinical immune studies. Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology 48(7), August 2024.
Tamir Diamond , Elizabeth B Rand : "Not too much, not too little, just right"-Finding the Goldilocks point in pediatric immunosuppression minimization. Liver Transplantation 30: 676-677, July 2024.
Mohit Kehar , Samar H Ibrahim, Charina M Ramirez, Saista Asif Amin, Tamir Diamond, Saeed Mohammad : Utilization and perspectives of weight loss medications in pediatric metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. JPGN May 2024.
Kapish Gupta , Jimmy P Xu, Tamir Diamond, Iris E M de Jong, Andrew Glass, Jessica Llewellyn, Neil D Theise, Orith Waisbourd-Zinman, Jeffrey D Winkler, Edward M Behrens, Clementina Mesaros , Rebecca G Wells : Low-dose biliatresone treatment of pregnant mice causes subclinical biliary disease in their offspring: Evidence for a spectrum of neonatal injury. PLoS One 19(4): e0301824, April 2024.
Chapin, Catherine, Diamond, Tamir, Lau, Michelle, Meng, Wenzhao, Prak, Eline Luning, Loomes, Kathleen, Alonso, Estella, Babushok, Daria, Tambur, Anat, Behrens, Edward: Identification of Novel Class I HLA Allele and T-cell Repertoire Features Associated with Indeterminate Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Hepatology. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS TWO COMMERCE SQ, 2001 MARKET ST, PHILADELPHIA … 80: S550-S551, 2024.
Diamond T, Chapin CA, Diorio C, Olson TS, Henrickson SE, Lau M, Chu N, Jansen KM, Leung D, Narang A, Saarela K, Carter B, Elisofon S, Fawaz R, Fischer R, Lobritto S, Peters A, Rodriguez-Baez N, Romero R, Rosenthal P, Rudnick D, Squires J, Sundaram S, Tolliver K, Valentino P, Durkalski-Mauldin V, Horslen S, Loomes KM, Alonso EM, Behrens EM: Circulating Activated Tissue Resident Memory CD8+ T cell Population is a Unique Feature of Pediatric Activated T-cell Acute Liver Failure and Hepatitis Associated Aplastic Anemia. Hepatology 80(S1): S2125-S2180, 2024.
Diiamond T, Lau M, Chu N, Behrens EM : Concanavalin A Models the Inflammatory Phenotype of Pediatric Activated T-cell Hepatitis/Acute Liver Failure. AASLD Annual meeting, Boston, MA 2023 November 2023.