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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

Contact Information

Department Pediatrics
Address 550 16th. Street
San Francisco CA 94158
(415) 502-2159
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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

Fellowships

  • Pediatric Gastroenterology and Pediatric Transplant Hepatology, UCSF

Board Certifications

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

Program Affiliations

  • Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Program
  • Liver Transplant Program
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Program

Clinical Expertise

Research Interests

  • Chronic Pancreatitis
  • Epidemiology
  • Long-Term Outcomes After Liver Transplantation
  • Metabolic Liver Disease
  • Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Pancreatic Insufficiency
  • Pediatric Gastroenterology
  • Pediatric Liver Transplantation

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

  Award  
  Confired 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

    • 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

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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
      Co-Investigator
    • 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
      Co-Investigator
    • Prevalence & correlates of post-traumatic stress in adolescent solid organ transplant recipients
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      Mar 2016
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      Feb 2018
      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
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      Jul 2016
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      Jul 2017
      Principal Investigator

    Clinical Trials

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    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 110
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    1. Pillai A, Verna EC, Parikh ND, Cooper M, Thiessen C, Heimbach J, Gordon EJ, Sapisochin G, Selzner N, Mathur A, Perito ER, Jesse M, Liapakis A, Kumar V. Financial, policy and ethical barriers to the expansion of living donor liver transplant: Meeting report from a living donor liver transplant consensus conference. Clin Transplant. 2023 Mar 07; e14955. View in PubMed
    2. Eskenazi B, Gunier RB, Rauch S, Kogut K, Perito ER, Mendez X, Limbach C, Holland N, Bradman A, Harley KG, Mills PJ, Mora AM. Association of Lifetime Exposure to Glyphosate and Aminomethylphosphonic Acid (AMPA) with Liver Inflammation and Metabolic Syndrome at Young Adulthood: Findings from the CHAMACOS Study. Environ Health Perspect. 2023 Mar; 131(3):37001. View in PubMed
    3. Batsis I, Bucuvalas J, Eisenberg E, Lau J, Squires JE, Feng S, Perito ER. Immunosuppression after pediatric liver transplant: The parents' perspective. Clin Transplant. 2023 Feb 11; e14931. View in PubMed
    4. Mazariegos GV, Perito ER, Squires JE, Soltys KA, Griesemer AD, Taylor SA, Pahl E. Center use of technical variant grafts varies widely and impacts pediatric liver transplant waitlist and recipient outcomes in the United States. Liver Transpl. 2023 Feb 07. View in PubMed
    5. Mazariegos GV, Soltys KA, Perito ER. Waitlist mortality in pediatric liver transplantation: The goal is zero. Liver Transpl. 2023 Feb 01; 29(2):130-131. View in PubMed
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    In the News

    • Teen Liver Transplant Recipient to Honor Donor at 2013 Rose Parade

      UCSF Transplant Surgery - December 28, 2012
      The Garcia family and their transplant team
      Alfonso 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 [...]

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