University of California San Francisco

Emily Perito, MD

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Emily Perito, MD

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

Address

550 16th Street, #4814
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States

Email: [email protected]

Biography

Dr. Emily R. Perito is an professor at UCSF who specializes in pediatric liver and pancreatic disease, pediatric liver transplant, and pediatric gastroenterology. She is jointly appointed in the Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and affiliated faculty with the Institute for Health Policy Studies. She is board-certified in pediatrics, pediatric gastroenterology, and pediatric transplant hepatology.

Dr. Perito treats all types of pediatric liver, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal diseases, in all ages from newborns through young adults. Her clinical care and research focus on optimizing long-term outcomes for children with liver and pancreatic diseases.

She is Medical Director of UCSF's Pediatric Liver Center and Associate Medical Director 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. Dr. Perito leads epidemiologic research focused on improving access to transplant, organ allocation, and waitlist outcomes for children awaiting liver transplant. She is Co-Chair the Starzl Network for Excellence in Pediatric Transplantation and helps lead their efforts to improve the efficacy and reduce the burden of immunosuppression for children after liver transplant. She also advocates for children nationally as Chair of UNOS' Pediatric Transplantation Committee (2022-2024), Chair of the Society for Pediatric Liver Transplant's Advocacy Committee (2020-2023), and a member of AASLD's Pediatric Special Interest Group.

She is also co-director of UCSF's Pediatric Pancreas Program. She lead's UCSF's work in NIH-sponsored multi-center trials including the INSPPIRE study on acute recurrent and chronic pancreatitis in children and adolescents. Her work in chronic pancreatitis includes research on chronic pain management, opioid use, and outcomes after TPIAT.

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

Education

Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
University of California, San Francisco Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training 10/2020
University of California, San Francisco M.A.S. in Clinical Research Graduate Division (Advance Training in Clinical Research) 2012
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons M.D. Medicine 2006
Harvard University B.A. History and Science 2001

Board Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology  Subspecialty
American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Subspecialty

Awards & Honors

Award Conferred By Date
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

Mentoring and Training Narrative

I am excited to work with trainees who are interested in clinical and/or epidemiologic research, particularly in chronic pediatric liver and pancreatic disease. I am experienced with statistical analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database, as well as study design, implementation, and analysis of my own prospective cohort. We can be most productive if you have familiarity with basic statistics (in Excel, Stata or another program) or a background in computer programming--or if you are enrolled in a UCSF clinical research program (e.g., TICR, ACTR)--but this is not required.

Clinical Expertise

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (Pediatric)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Intestinal Failure
Short Bowel Syndrome
Liver Transplant (Pediatric)
Chronic Pancreatitis
Pancreatic Insufficiency
Metabolic Liver Disease
Fatty Liver Disease (Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis)

Clinical Trials

  1. Biospecimen Collection to Identify Gene Mutations for High Risk Pancreatic Cancer in Pediatric Patients, INSPPIRE 2 Study (NCT06651580)
    Related Conditions: Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreatic Neoplasms| Start Date: | End Date:

Program Affiliations

Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Program

Liver Transplant Program

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Program

In the News

Teen Liver Transplant Recipient to Honor Donor at 2013 Rose Parade
December, 28, 2012 | UCSF Transplant Surgery

Grants and Funding

  • PARTNER ADVance: Patient-Centered Research in Pediatric Transplant, Engaging Families and Recipients - Young Adult and Adolescent Advisors | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | 2024-03-01 - 2026-02-28 | Role: Co-Project Lead
  • INSPPIRE: A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Pediatric Chronic Pancreatitis to Predict Clinical Course and Identify Disease Modifiers | NIH | 2015-09-28 - 2025-06-30 | Role: Co-Investigator
  • SNEPT and SPLIT implementation of a QoL measure in pediatric transplant recipients | NIH | 2021-08-01 - 2024-07-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
  • Improving Medication Adherence in adolescents who had a Liver Transplant: iMALT | NIH | 2018-09-20 - 2023-08-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
  • PARTNER: Patient-Centered Research in Pediatric Transplant: Engaging Families and Recipients | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | 2020-02-01 - 2023-05-01 | Role: Co-Project Lead
  • Metabolic Syndrome after Pediatric Liver Transplant: Causes and Consequences | NIH | 2014-09-15 - 2019-06-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
  • Improving Medication Adherence in children who had a Liver Transplant: iMALT | NIH | 2016-09-14 - 2018-06-30 | Role: Co-Investigator
  • Prevalence & correlates of post-traumatic stress in adolescent solid organ transplant recipients | NIH/Clinical Trial in Organ Transplantation | 2016-03-01 - 2018-02-28 | Role: Site PI
  • Non-standard exception requests and their impact in pediatric liver transplant: A mixed-methods analysis of United Network for Organ Sharing data, 2009-2014 | UCSF Department of Pediatrics | 2016-07-01 - 2017-07-01 | Role: Principal Investigator

Research Narrative

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.

Research Interests

Pediatric Liver Transplantation

Long-Term Outcomes After Liver Transplantation

Chronic Pancreatitis

Pancreatic Insufficiency

Metabolic Liver Disease

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Epidemiology

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 10
  1. A remote intervention to improve medication nonadherence guided by a marker of risk derived from the electronic health records of adolescent transplant recipients.
    Shemesh E, Anand R, Annunziato RA, Fredericks EM, Garcia J, Gupta NA, Kleinman LC, Kriegermeier A, Mysore KR, Ng VL, Lobritto SJ, Patel S, Perito ER, Rand EB, Romero R, Venick RS, Duncan-Park S, Mitchell J, Anderson SG, Stuber ML, Reyes-Múgica M, Mazariegos GV, Shneider BL| | PubMed
  2. Identifying patient-centered outcomes in progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis: Results from IMPACT.
    Squires JE, Lubke GH, Ventura E, Perez A, Hertel PM, Perito ER, Bull L, Kochanowsky M| | PubMed
  3. Minimal Clinically Important Difference for the PeLTQL in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A Multicenter Analysis.
    Ng VL, Kwan K, Logan S, Chessell J, Lobritto SJ, Hsu EK, Perito ER, Gupta NA, Dunphy C, Pieratt D, Kleinman LC, Shemesh E, Mazariegos GV| | PubMed
  4. Immune profiling links autoimmune hepatitis to human herpesvirus 6 and relaxin receptor antigens.
    Klepper A, Asaki J, Caspar CM, Kung AF, Vazquez SE, Bodansky A, Mitchell A, Mann SA, Zorn K, Avila-Vargas I, Kari S, Tekeste M, Castro J, Lee B, Duarte M, Khalili M, Yang M, Wolters P, Price J, Perito E, Feng S, Maher JJ, Wilson MR, Lai JC, Weiler-Normann C, Lohse AW, DeRisi J, Tana MM| | PubMed
  5. Long-term disease progression in pediatric acute recurrent and chronic pancreatitis: A report from INSPPIRE.
    Downs EM, Perito ER, Wang F, Cress GA, Abu-El-Haija M, Chugh A, Cohen RZ, Fishman DS, Freeman AJ, Gariepy CE, Giefer MJ, Gonska TY, Grover AS, Husain SZ, Lindblad D, Liu QY, Maqbool A, Mark JA, McFerron BA, Mehta MS, Morinville VD, Ng K, Noel RA, Ooi CY, Troendle DM, Wilschanski M, Zheng Y, Yuan Y, Lowe ME, Uc A, Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC), INternational Study group of Pediatric Pancreatitis: In search for a cuRE (INSPPIRE)| | PubMed
  6. Internet-delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Pain in Pediatric Acute Recurrent and Chronic Pancreatitis: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.
    Palermo TM, Li R, Zhou C, Aalfs H, Cress G, Lowe M, Abu-El-Haija M, Chugh A, Downs EM, Fishman DS, Freeman AJ, Giefer MJ, Gonska TY, Husain SZ, Lindblad D, Liu QY, Maqbool A, Mark JA, McFerron BA, Mehta MS, Noel RA, Perito ER, Wang F, Yuan Y, Zheng Y, Uc A, Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes, and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC)| | PubMed
  7. Utility and utilization of transabdominal ultrasound in pediatric patients with acute recurrent or chronic pancreatitis.
    Norris N, Troendle D, Wilschanski M, Wang F, Cress GA, Abu-El-Haija MA, Chugh A, Cohen RZ, Downs EM, Fishman DS, Gariepy CE, Giefer MJ, Gonska TY, Grover AS, Husain SZ, Lindblad D, Liu QY, Maqbool A, Mark JA, McFerron BA, Mehta MS, Morinville VD, Ng K, Noel RA, Ooi CY, Perito ER, Sellers ZM, Trout AT, Zheng Y, Yuan Y, Lowe ME, Uc A, Consortium for the Study of Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer| | PubMed
  8. Patient-Caregiver Discrepancy Score: Multisite Evaluation of a Novel Pediatric Outcome Measure.
    Shemesh E, Ng VL, Dunphy C, Logan S, Chessell J, Swami N, Lobritto SJ, Gupta NA, Perito ER, Hsu EK, Pieratt D, Kwan K, DeGroote C, Suresh S, Anand R, Anderson SG, Mueller N, Kleinman LC, Mazariegos GV| | PubMed
  9. Share Seamlessly, Steal Shamelessly: Unlocking the Learning Health Network Ethos in Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
    Perito ER, Gupta N, Soltys K, Ng VL| | PubMed
  10. Weight gain in infancy and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in a prospective birth cohort of Latino children.
    Maxwell SL, Price JC, Perito ER, Rosenthal P, Wojcicki JM| | PubMed