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
Contact Information
Address 550 16th. Street
San Francisco CA 94158
(415) 502-2159
Education
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
Clinical Expertise
- 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
Biography
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.
Awards & Honors
Research Overview
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 & Funding
- INSPPIRE: A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Pediatric Chronic Pancreatitis to Predict Clinical Course and Identify Disease ModifiersSponsor: NIHSponsor ID: U01DK108334Funding Period:Sep 2015-Jun 2025Co-Investigator
- SNEPT and SPLIT implementation of a QoL measure in pediatric transplant recipientsSponsor: NIHSponsor ID: U18HS028380Funding Period:Aug 2021-Jul 2024Co-Investigator
- Improving Medication Adherence in adolescents who had a Liver Transplant: iMALTSponsor: NIHSponsor ID: U01DK119200Funding Period:Sep 2018-Aug 2023Co-Investigator
- INSPPIRE to Study Pediatric Chronic PancreatitisSponsor: NIHSponsor ID: U01DK108334Funding Period:Sep 2015-Aug 2020Site Investigator
- Metabolic Syndrome after Pediatric Liver Transplant: Causes and ConsequencesSponsor: NIH/NIDDKSponsor ID: K23DK099253Funding Period:Sep 2014-Jun 2019Principal Investigator
- Improving Medication Adherence in children who had a Liver Transplant: iMALTSponsor: NIHSponsor ID: U34DK112661Funding Period:Sep 2016-Jun 2018Co-Investigator
- Prevalence & correlates of post-traumatic stress in adolescent solid organ transplant recipientsSponsor: NIH/Clinical Trial in Organ TransplantationSponsor ID: U01 AI077810Funding Period:Mar 2016-Feb 2018Site PI
- Non-standard exception requests and their impact in pediatric liver transplant: A mixed-methods analysis of United Network for Organ Sharing data, 2009-2014Sponsor: UCSF Department of PediatricsSponsor ID:Funding Period:Jul 2016-Jul 2017Principal Investigator
Clinical Trials
- Study ID: NCT05241847Start Date: Feb 2022Estimated Completion Date: Jul 2024Condition(s): Liver Transplant, Quality of Life, Child Behavior, Adolescent Behavior
- Study ID: NCT03691220Start Date: Nov 2018Estimated Completion Date: Sep 2023Condition(s): Transplants, Liver Transplant
- Study ID: NCT03672422Start Date: Jun 2017Estimated Completion Date: Aug 2020Condition(s): Pancreatitis
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 124
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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In the News
- UCSF Transplant Surgery - December 28, 2012Alfonso Garcia and his parents pose with the UCSF medical team that cared for him during his 2010 life-saving liver transplant. From left: mother Marta Garcia; Emily Perito, MD; nurse practitioner Susan Diaz, MSN; Garcia; Philip Rosenthal, MD; and father Oscar Garcia. Alfonso Garcia still carries around a baseball cap that belonged to a 22-year-old man who passed away in 2010 having never met him. But the cap is just a small token of an even bigger reminder that the 18-year-old college [...]
