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Emily Perito, M.D.

Emily Perito, M.D.

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Pediatrics
  • Assistant Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant
  • Co-director, Pediatric Pancreas Program
  • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

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Department Pediatrics
Address 550 16th. Street
San Francisco CA 94158
(415) 502-2159
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M.D., 2006 Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

M.A.S. in Clinical Research, 2012 Graduate Division (Advance Training in Clinical Research), University of California, San Francisco

B.A., 2001 History and Science, Harvard University

  • Pediatric Gastroenterology and Pediatric Transplant Hepatology, UCSF
  • American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
  • American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology  Subspecialty
  • American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Subspecialty
  • Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Program
  • Liver Transplant Program
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Program
  • Chronic Pancreatitis
  • Fatty Liver Disease (Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis)
  • Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (Pediatric)
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Intestinal Failure
  • Liver Transplant (Pediatric)
  • Metabolic Liver Disease
  • Pancreatic Insufficiency
  • Short Bowel Syndrome
  • Chronic Pancreatitis
  • Epidemiology
  • Long-Term Outcomes After Liver Transplantation
  • Metabolic Liver Disease
  • Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Pancreatic Insufficiency
  • Pediatric Gastroenterology
  • Pediatric Liver Transplantation

Dr. Emily R. Perito is an assistant professor at UCSF who specializes in pediatric liver disease, pediatric liver transplant, and pediatric gastroenterology. She completed fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology and in Pediatric Transplant Hepatology at UCSF. During her fellowship, Dr. Perito also earned a Master's Degree in Clinical Research at UCSF. 

Dr. Perito treats all types of pediatric liver, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal diseases, in all ages from newborns through young adults. She is a member of UCSF's multi-disciplinary pediatric liver transplant team with expertise in the care of children with pediatric liver disease before and in the long-term after transplant. She is also co-director of the Pediatric Pancreas Program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

Before coming to UCSF, Dr. Perito did her pediatrics training and medical school at Columbia University in New York City.

  Award  
  Confired By    
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  • Fellow's Leadership and Advocacy Group Faculty Mentor Award
  • UCSF
  • 2015
  • AGA Emmet B. Keeffe Award in Translational or Clinical Research in Liver Disease
  • UCSF
  • 2013 - 2014
  • UCSF CTSI-SOS Early Career Investigators Pilot Award
  • UCSF
  • 2013 - 2014
  • UCSF Liver Center Pilot/Feasibility Award
  • UCSF
  • 2013 - 2014
  • Dr. Perito is a clinical and translational researcher whose interests focus on long-term outcomes for children with liver and pancreatic diseases. She is currently leading an NIH-sponsored study about post-transplant metabolic syndrome in pediatric liver transplant recipients. She is also active in epidemiologic research about organ allocation for children awaiting research. She is an investigator in the INSPPIRE consortium, which studies chronic pancreatitis in children and adolescents, as well as multi-center studies on liver transplant outcomes.

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    • INSPPIRE: A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Pediatric Chronic Pancreatitis to Predict Clinical Course and Identify Disease Modifiers
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      Sep 2015
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      Jun 2025
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    • SNEPT and SPLIT implementation of a QoL measure in pediatric transplant recipients
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      Aug 2021
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      Jul 2024
      Co-Investigator
    • Improving Medication Adherence in adolescents who had a Liver Transplant: iMALT
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      Sep 2018
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      Aug 2023
      Co-Investigator
    • INSPPIRE to Study Pediatric Chronic Pancreatitis
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      Sep 2015
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      Aug 2020
      Site Investigator
    • Metabolic Syndrome after Pediatric Liver Transplant: Causes and Consequences
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      Sep 2014
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      Jun 2019
      Principal Investigator
    • Improving Medication Adherence in children who had a Liver Transplant: iMALT
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      Sep 2016
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      Jun 2018
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    • Prevalence & correlates of post-traumatic stress in adolescent solid organ transplant recipients
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      Mar 2016
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      Feb 2018
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    • Non-standard exception requests and their impact in pediatric liver transplant: A mixed-methods analysis of United Network for Organ Sharing data, 2009-2014
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      Jul 2016
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      Jul 2017
      Principal Investigator
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    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 124
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    1. Shifman HP, Huang CY, Beck AF, Bucuvalas J, Perito ER, Hsu EK, Ebel NH, Lai JC, Wadhwani SI. Association of State Medicaid Expansion Policies with Pediatric Liver Transplant Outcomes. Am J Transplant. 2023 Sep 28. View in PubMed
    2. Abu-El-Haija M, Hornung L, Ellery K, Fishman DS, Gonska TY, Gariepy C, Lowe M, Larson Ode K, Maqbool A, Mascarenhas M, Morinville VD, Ooi CY, Perito ER, Schwarzenberg SJ, Sellers ZM, Zemel BS, Yuan Y, Wang F, Uc A, Kalkwarf HJ, Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC). Bone health in children with recurrent and chronic pancreatitis: A multi-center cross sectional analysis. Pancreatology. 2023 Nov; 23(7):755-760. View in PubMed
    3. Kwong AJ, Foutz J, Cafarella M, Biggins SW, Shah ND, Eason J, Perito ER, Pomposelli J, Trotter J. Implementation of a National Liver Review Board for exception requests in the United States: A 2-year monitoring report. Liver Transpl. 2023 Aug 29. View in PubMed
    4. Maisam Abu-El-Haija, Lindsey Hornung, Kate Ellery, Douglas S. Fishman, Tanja Y. Gonska, Cheryl Gariepy, Mark Lowe, Katie Larson Ode, Asim Maqbool, Maria Mascarenhas, Veronique D. Morinville, Chee Y. Ooi, Emily R. Perito, Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, Zachary M. Sellers, Babette S. Zemel, Ying Yuan, Fuchenchu Wang, Aliye Uc, Heidi J. Kalkwarf, Diabetes Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis. Bone health in children with recurrent and chronic pancreatitis: A multi-center cross sectional analysis. Pancreatology. 2023 Aug 1. View in PubMed
    5. Morinville VD, Husain SZ, Wang F, Cress GA, Abu-El-Haija M, Chugh A, Downs E, Ellery K, Fishman DS, Freeman AJ, Gariepy CE, Giefer M, Gonska T, Liu Q, Maqbool A, Mark J, Mcferron BA, Mehta M, Nathan JD, Ng K, Ooi CY, Perito E, Ruan W, Schwarzenberg SJ, Sellers ZM, Serrano J, Troendle DM, Wilschanski M, Zheng Y, Yuan Y, Lowe M, Uc A, Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC). Pediatric Drug-Associated Pancreatitis Reveals Concomitant Risk Factors and Poor Reliability of Causality Scoring: Report From INSPPIRE. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2023 10 01; 77(4):540-546. View in PubMed
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