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Physician Assistant – Certified, UNC Health Care System

BIOSKETCH
After receiving her BS in Biology with a Minor in Chemistry from the University of NC at Chapel Hill (2000), Danielle attended Wake Forest University School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program, graduating in August, 2003 with Academic Distinction. Danielle then went on to complete her Masters of Physician’s Assistant Studies with a specialization in Gastroenterology in December, 2004 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Danielle has been practicing at UNC Hospitals since 2003 in the Functional Bowel and Motility Clinic with Dr. Yolanda Scarlett. Her clinical schedule consists of five half days of clinic per week and interpretation and reporting motility testing for the GI division. Danielle has 13 years of clinical research working as a sub-investigator and is currently working with Dr. Spencer Dorn.

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
Board Certified Physician Assistant through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants

CLINICAL INTERESTS
Functional bowel disorders, hydrogen breath tests, GI motility disorders, fecal incontinence, pelvic floor dysfunction, etc.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Yehuda Ringel, MD1*, Carolyn B Morris, MA1, Danielle Maier, PA1, Yuming Hu, PhD1, Michelle M McKee, PharmD2, Shrikant I Bangdiwala, PhD1 and Douglas A Drossman, MD1Effect of Esomeprazole on Symptoms of Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Functional Diarrhea. Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2005 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and 2AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.
  2. Ringel-Kulka T, Palsson OS, Maier D, Ringel Y. Yogurt Containing the Probiotic Bacteria Bifidobacterium Lactis Bb12 and Prebiotic Inulin Significantly Improves Colonic Transit Time in Subjects with Functional Bowel Symptoms. Am J Gastroenterol 2008;103:S479
  3. Ringel Y, Ringel-Kulka T, Maier D, Carroll IM, Galanko JA, Leyer G, Palsson OS. Clinical trial: Probiotic Bacteria Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM and Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07 Versus Placebo for the Symptoms of Bloating in Patients with Functional Bowel Disorders – a Double-Blind Study. J Clin Gastroenterol 2011 (in press).
  4. Ringel Y, Gelfond D, Galanko A, Maier D, O’Hara T, Semler JR, Borowitz D3, Ringel-Kulka T. Alterations in intestinal transit in subgroups of patients with functional bowel disorders and healthy controls – a wireless motility capsule study (ACG 2010).
  5. Ringel-Kulka T, Maier D, DeMaria N, Galanko J, Jackson J, Fedor-Hammonds L, Ringel Y. Alterations in intestinal transit in subgroups of patients with functional bowel disorders and healthy controls – a wireless motility capsule study (DDW 2010).
  6. Ringel-Kulka T, Maier D, Palsson OS, Ringel Y. Characterization and Comparison of Patients versus Non-patients with Functional Bowel Symptoms in the General Population (DDW 2010).
  7. Ringel-Kulka T, Palsson OS, Galanko J, Maier D, Ringel Y. Daily Consumption of Bifidobacterium Lactis- Bb12, Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Inulin Accelerate Colonic Transit and Improve Well Being in Subjects with Functional Bowel Symptoms. National Academy of Sciences’ Sackler Colloquium Microbes and Health on November, 2009.
  8. Ringel-Kulka T, Palsson OS, Maier D, Ringel Y. Yogurt Containing the Probiotic Bacteria Bifidobacterium Lactis Bb12 and Prebiotic Inulin Significantly Improves Colonic Transit Time in Subjects with Functional Bowel Symptoms. Am J Gastroenterol 2008;103:S479
  9. Ringel Y, Morris CB, Maier D, Hu Y, McKee MM, Bangdiwala SI, Drossman DA. Effect of Esomeprazole on Symptoms of Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Functional Diarrhea (FD) Am J Gastroentrol 2006 abstract # 1228.
  10. Probiotic Bacteria: Probiotic Bacteria Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM and Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07 Versus Placebo for the Symptoms of Bloating in Patients With Functional Bowel Disorders-a Double-blind Study.Ringel Y, Ringel-Kulka T, Maier D, Carroll I, Galanko JA, Leyer G, Palsson OS. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2011 Mar 22. [Epub ahead of print

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • UNC Chapel Hill Golden Key National Honor Society
  • Served as Marshall in 2002 PA graduation ceremony (top 4 in class).
  • Received the Katherine Anderson Scholarship for 2002-2003
  • Phone Number

    (984) 974-4131 (Office Phone)

  • Address

    Chapel Hill and Hillsborough

    Chapel Hill, NC 27514