Biography
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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)
Program Affiliations
Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Program
Liver Transplant Program
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Program
In the News
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
- Improving the predictive ability of the pediatric end-stage liver disease score for young children awaiting liver transplant.| | PubMed
- Mo1901 CHILDREN WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE EXPERIENCE HIGH RATES OF TRAUMA SECONDARY TO MEDICAL TREATMENT.| | UCSF Research Profile
- Colorectal Dysplasia and Cancer in Pediatric-Onset Ulcerative Colitis Associated With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.| | PubMed
- Pediatric chronic pancreatitis without prior acute or acute recurrent pancreatitis: A report from the INSPPIRE consortium.| | PubMed
- Factors Associated With Frequent Opioid Use in Children With Acute Recurrent and Chronic Pancreatitis.| | PubMed
- Split liver transplantation is utilized infrequently and concentrated at few transplant centers in the United States.| | PubMed
- Web-based cognitive-behavioral intervention for pain in pediatric acute recurrent and chronic pancreatitis: Protocol of a multicenter randomized controlled trial from the study of chronic pancreatitis, diabetes and pancreatic cancer (CPDPC).| | PubMed
- Diabetes Mellitus in Children with Acute Recurrent and Chronic Pancreatitis: Data From the INternational Study Group of Pediatric Pancreatitis: In Search for a CuRE Cohort.| | PubMed
- Impact of the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) growth failure thresholds on mortality among pediatric liver transplant candidates.| | PubMed
- Acute Recurrent and Chronic Pancreatitis as Initial Manifestations of Cystic Fibrosis and Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator-Related Disorders.| | PubMed