He serves as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Exocrine Pancreas Research Program at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He earned an MD degree at Tufts University School of Medicine and matriculated through a Pediatric residency at New York University Medical Center. Dr. Husain developed a passion for Pediatric gastroenterology as a fellow at Yale University. While at Yale, he became entrenched in a quest to decipher the mechanisms underlying various pancreatitis disorders and to devise novel therapies for them. These disorders include pancreatitis and pancreatic insufficiency. His work was the first to identify a pathological role for pancreatic acinar cell calcium release through the intra-cellular calcium channel the ryanodine receptor.