Can Ficicioglu, MD,PhD

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Professor of Pediatrics (Human Genetics) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Human Genetics, Newborn Metabolic Screening Program
Consultant Physician, Pennsylvania Hospital-Neonatology
Consultant Physician, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania- Neonatology
Director, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Human Genetics, Lysosomal Storage Diseases Program
Director, Section of Biochemical Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Human Genetics
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Division of Human Genetics
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3500 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215 590 3376
Fax: 215 590 4297
Education:
MD
University of Istanbul, Cerrahpasa Medical School (with High Honors), 1985.
PhD (Histology & Embryology)
University of Marmara, 1996.
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Selected Publications

Guffon N, Burton BK, Ficicioglu C, Magner M, Gil-Campos M, Lopez-Rodriguez MA, Jayakar P, Lund AM, Tal G, Garcia-Ortiz JE, Stepien KM, Ellaway C, Al-Hertani W, Giugliani R, Cathey SS, Hennermann JB, Lampe C, McNutt M, Lagler FB, Scarpa M, Sutton VR, Muschol N: Monitoring and integrated care coordination of patients with alpha-mannosidosis: A global Delphi consensus study. Mol Genet Metab. 142(4), June 2024.

Feillet F, Ficicioglu C, Lagler FB, Longo N, Muntau AC, Burlina A, Trefz FK, van Spronsen FJ, Arnoux JB, Lindstrom K, Lilienstein J, Clague GE, Rowell R, Burton BK: Efficacy and safety of sapropterin before and during pregnancy: Final analysis of the Kuvan® Adult Maternal Paediatric European Registry (KAMPER) maternal and Phenylketonuria Developmental Outcomes and Safety (PKUDOS) PKU-MOMs sub-registries. J Inherit Metab Dis. 3, March 2024.

Posset R et al : Severity-adjusted evaluation of liver transplantation on health outcomes in Urea Cycle Disorders Genetics in Medicine 2023.

Katler Q, Stepien KM, Paull N, Patel S, Adams M, Balci MC, Berry GT, Bosch AM, De La O A, Demirbas D, Edman J, Ficicioglu C, Goff M, Hacker S, Knerr I, Lancaster K, Li H, Mendelsohn BA, Nichols B, de Rezende Pinto WBV, Rocha JC, Rubio-Gozalbo ME, Saad-Naguib M, Scholl-Buergi S, Searcy S, de Souza PVS, Wittenauer A, Fridovich-Keil JL: A Multinational Study of Acute and Long-term Outcomes of Type 1 Galactosemia Patients Who Carry the S135L (c.404C>T) Variant of GALT. J Inherit Metab Dis Sept 2022.

Brower A, Chan K, Williams M, Berry S, Currier R, Rinaldo P, Caggana M, Gaviglio A, Wilcox W, Steiner R, Holm IA, Taylor J, Orsini JJ, Brunelli L, Adelberg J, Bodamer O, Viall S, Scharfe C, Wasserstein M, Chen JY, Escolar M, Goldenberg A, Swoboda K, Ficicioglu C, Matern D, Lee R, Watson M.: Population-Based Screening of Newborns: Findings From the NBS Expansion Study (Part One) Front Genet. 2 Jul 2022.

Ficicioglu C, Liu N, Sun Q, Burdett A, Hata A, Porter M, Sutton VR.: Perceptions and use of phenylbutyrate metabolite testing in urea cycle disorders: Results of a clinician survey and analysis of a centralized testing database. Mol Genet Metab. Page: 35-41, January 2022.

Gold J, Gold NB, Strong A, Tully E, Xiao R ,Schwartz LA, Ficicioglu C: The Current State of Adult Metabolic Medicine in the United States: Results of a Nationwide Survey. Genetics in Medicine 2022 Notes: accepted for publication

Scharre S, Posset R, Garbade SF, Gleich F, Seidl MJ, Druck AC, Okun JG, Gropman AL, Nagamani SCS, Hoffmann GF, Kölker S, Zielonka M; Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium (UCDC) and the European registry and network for Intoxication type Metabolic Diseases (E-IMD) Consortia Study Group.: Predicting the disease severity in male individuals with ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 9(11), 2022.

Szigety KM, Crowley TB, Gaiser KB, Chen EY, Priestley JRC, Williams LS, Rangu SA, Wright CM, Adusumalli P, Ahrens-Nicklas RC, Calderon B, Cuddapah SR, Edmondson A, Ficicioglu C, Ganetzky R, Kalish JM, Krantz ID, McDonald-McGinn DM, Medne L, Muraresku C, Pyle LC, Zackai EH, Campbell IM, Sheppard SE.: Clinical Effectiveness of Telemedicine-Based Pediatric Genetics Care. Pediatrics 2022.

Priestley J, Adang L, Williams SD, Lichter-Konecki U, Menello C, Engelhardt N, DiPerna J, Brenda DiBoscio B, Rebecca C. Ahrens-Nicklas RC, Edmondson AC , Reynoso J and Ficicioglu C: Newborn Screening for X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy: Review of Data and Outcomes in Pennsylvania. International Journal of Neonatal Screening 2022.

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