Presentations & Publications

Presentations & Talks

  • Dr. Monique Barakat - "Is the Future Disposable?" | DDW 2021 Virtual Meeting (May 2021) 

 

  • Dr. Zachary Sellers - "Updates on Cystic Fibrosis: Associated Pancreatic and Liver Disease" | 2020 NASPGHAN/CPNP/APGNN Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (November 2020)

 

  • Dr. Roberto Gugig - "Endobariatric therapies in adolescence (APC duodenal tx for obesity)" | 2020 NASPGHAN/CPNP/APGNN Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (November 2020)

 

  • Dr. Monique Barakat - "Safety and Efficacy of Minor Papillotomy in Children and Adolescents with Pancreas Divisum" | 2020 NASPGHAN/CPNP/APGNN Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (November 2020)

 

  • Dr. Monique Barakat - "EUS outside the biliary system in pediatrics" | 2020 NASPGHAN/CPNP/APGNN Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (November 2020)

 

  • Dr. Ann Ming Yeh - San Mateo Medical Center Grand Rounds: Overview and Updates on the Gut Microbiome (August 2020)

 

  • Sohail Husain - 2020 Faculty Speaker, 11th Annual Pediatrics Research Retreat, Stanford University.

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Recent Publications

  • Nguyen E, Huang A, Khalsa U, Saarela K, Sandborg C, Ebel N. Acute liver failure in neonatal lupus: novel treatment with exchange transfusion, intravenous immunoglobulin and steroids. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Reports 2021.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Publications

 

 

 

 

 

  • Than PA, Brubaker AL, Ebel NH, Profita EL, Esquivel CO. The emerging need for combined heart and liver transplantation in congenital heart disease. Current Transplantation Reports 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Ebel N, Hsu E, Dick A, Shaffer M, Carlin K, Horslen S. Decreased incidence of hepatic artery thrombosis in pediatric liver transplantation utilizing technical variant grafts: report of the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) experience. Journal of Pediatrics 2020.

 

 

  • Liu, Quin Y.; Gugig, Roberto; Troendle, David M.; Bitton, Samuel; Patel, Nishant; Vitale, David S.; Abu-El-Haija, Maisam; Husain, Sohail Z.; Morinville, Veronique D. The Roles of EUS and ERCP in the Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Pancreatitis in Children: A Position Paper from the NASPGHAN Pancreas Committee. [Feb 19, 2020]

 

  • Commentary: Children with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Consume More Calories and Fat than Controls. Abu El Haija, Marwa and Agostoni, Carlo. [Feb 19, 2020]

 

  • Palermo TM, C Murray, H Aalfs, M Abu-El-Haija, B Barth, MD Bellin, K Ellery, DS Fishman, CE Gariepy, MJ Giefer, P Goday, T Gonska, MB Heyman, SZ Husain, TK Lin, QY Liu, MR Mascarenhas, A Maqbool, B McFerron,m VD Morinville, JD Nathan, CY Ooi, ER Perito, JF Pohl, SH Schwarzenberg, ZM Sellers, J Serrano, U Shah, D Troendle, Y Zheng, Y Yuan, M Lowe, A Uc. A Web-based Cognitive-behaivoral Intervention for Pain in Pediatric Chronic Pancreatitis (WebMap) Trial: Study Protocol for a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.  Contemp Clin Trials. 2019 Nov 19:105898. PMID: 31756383.

 

  • Chapter 2: Development of the gastrointestinal tract. Namjoshi SS and Martin MG. Pediatric Nutrition, 8th Ed. 2019 Nov. ISBN-13: 978-1-61002-360-3. AAP Committee on Nutrition; Editors: Ronald E. Kleinman, MD, FAAP and Frank R. Greer, MD, FAAP

 

  • Genaro Hernandez, Ting Luo, Tanveer A. Javed, Li Wen, Michael A. Kalwat, Kevin Vale, Farah Ammouri, Sohail Z. Husain, Steven A. Kliewer, David J. Mangelsdorf. Pancreatitis Is an FGF21-deficient State that Is Corrected by Replacement Therapy. Science Translational Medicine, 2019.

 

  • R. Ellen Jones, Ann Ming Yeh, Neerajah Kambham, Marwa Abu El Haija, Janey Pratt, Matias Bruzoni. Obesity surgery. August 2019. Intraoperative Liver Biopsy During Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Is It Really Necessary? 

 

  • Jennifer Damman, Patricio Arias, John Kerner, Ke-You Zhang, Melody Dehghan, Gomathi Krishnan, Colleen Nespor, Rachel Bensen, K.T. Park. Procalcitonin as a Predictive Marker for Bacteremia in Children with a Central line and fever. Hospital Pediatrics Jun 2019, 9 (6) 434-439; 

 

  • Cagil, Y. Ingested Foreign Bodies and Toxic Materials: Who Needs to be Scoped and When? Pediatrics in Review [accepted for print].

 

  • Sellers ZM, C Dike, KY Zhang, M Giefer, A Uc, M Abu-El-Haija.  A Unified Treatment Algorithm and Admission Orders Set for Pediatric Acute Pancreatitis. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. In press.

 

 

 

 

Abstracts (Oral)

  • Barakat MT, Cagil Y, Gugig R. LANDSCAPE OF PEDIATRIC ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND: INCREASED UTILIZATION AND AN ESCALATING PROPORTION OF THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES OVER TIME. "Pediatric Endoscopy 360: From Training to Practice." DDW 2021.   

 

  • Martin M, Charville G, Ofosu A, Gugig R, Lee J, Barakat MT. CHARACTERISTICS AND FINDINGS IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS UNDERGOING ERCP WHEN LARGE DUCT OBSTRUCTION IS EVIDENT ON LIVER BIOPSY. "Pediatric Endoscopy 360: From Training to Practice." DDW 2021.  

 

  • Foley M, Barakat MT, Ryan K, Chung S, Murray J, Gugig R. GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES: RATES, ENDOSCOPIC INTERVENTIONS & CLINICAL IMPACT. "Pediatric Endoscopy 360: From Training to Practice." DDW 2021. 

 

  • Zachary Sellers – 6th World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition – Oral Presentation – RECURRENT PANCREATITIS INCREASES RISK OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE IN U.S CHILDREN: EARLY WARNING SIGN OR CONTRIBUTORY RISK FACTOR? [ORAL PRESENTATION]

 

  • Toshie Saito, Olivia Tsai, Sohail Husain. 2020 DDW – PLASMA METABOLOMICS REVEAL A TARGETED PANEL OF METABOLITES THAT CAN ACCURATELY PREDICT THE COMPLICATION OF PANCREATITIS WITH THE ANTI-LEUKEMIC DRUG ASPARAGINASE (3348669) [ORAL PRESENTATION]

 

  • Monique T. Barakat, Roberto Gugig. DENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED COIL PLACEMENT IS AN EFFECTIVE, SAFE AND RADIATION-SPARING APPROACH FOR MANAGEMENT OF GASTRIC VARICEAL BLEEDING IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS (3349320). DDW 2020.

 

  • Monique T. Barakat, Timothy P Angelotti, Subhas Banerjee. ENDOSCOPIST FACILITATED ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION FOR GENERAL ANESTHESIA ENHANCES EFFICIENCY, PATIENT AND STAFF SAFETY DURING ERCP: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED STUDY (3349187). DDW 2020.

 

  • Monique T. Barakat, Swarnadip Ghosh, Subhas Banerjee. COST UTILITY ANALYSIS COMPARING DUODENOSCOPE REPROCESSING/STERILIZATION, NOVEL DUODENOSCOPES WITH DISPOSABLE ENDCAPS AND FULLY DISPOSABLE DUODENOSCOPES (3351959). DDW 2020.

Abstracts (Poster)

  • Cagil Y, Hsu D, Yeh AM, Abu El Haija M, Guimaraes C. Ataxia in Chronic Granulomatous Disease Due to Metronidazole Toxicity. World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (WCPGHAN), June 2021. 

 

  • Hsu D,  Cagil Y,  Martin M, Huang A, Martin B, Kerner J. A Case of Refractory Coeliac Disease in a Paediatric Patient with Short Bowel Syndrome. World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (WCPGHAN), June 2021. 

 

  • Herdes R. Innovative learning strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Restoring the “Art of Medicine” with Gabbing with the Guru. World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (WCPGHAN), June 2021. 

 

  • Huang A, Yeh A , Wren A, Khavari N, Kerner J, Rodriguez S, Caruso T, Menendez M, Hassan M. “The utility of a novel virtual reality based diaphragmatic breathing intervention to treat pediatric functional constipation and pelvic floor dysfunction in a remote setting.” Poster. Accepted as poster to World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2021, Vienna, Austria.

 

  • Huang A, Rungvivatjarus T, Herdes R, Mouat L, Kerner J, Bernard L. “A unique case series on two total parenteral nutrition dependent children with thiamine deficiency from withholding intravenous multivitaim due to factitious disorder imposed on another, or Munchause by Proxy.” Accepted as poster to World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2021, Vienna, Austria.

 

  • Huang A, Narang A, Gugig R, Goyal A. “A novel use of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose for iron deficiency anemia secondary to collagenous gastritis in a pediatric patient.” Accepted as poster to World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2021, Vienna, Austria.

 

  • Amrita Narang, Kate O'Hearn, Margaret Rosendahl, Kari Ksar, Ann Ming Yeh, Rebecca McKenzie, Nasim Khavari. DEVELOPMENT OF PARAMETERS FOR TELEMEDICINE PRACTICE IN A DIVISION OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY: A PROVIDER PERSPECTIVE. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Amy Issa, Panamdeep Kaur, Julia Harris, Alka Goyal, Mukta Sharma. IMPROVING THROMBOPROPHYLAXIS IN HOSPITALIZED PEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PATIENTS- A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.  NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Alice Huang, Ann Ming Yeh, Anava Wren, Nasim Khavari, Samuel Rodriguez, Tom Caruso, Maria Menendez, John Kerner, Maheen Hassan. DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING INTERVENTION TO TREAT PEDIATRIC FUNCTIONAL CONSTIPATION AND PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION.  NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Asna Khalid, Jianbo Ni, Monique Barakat, Mang Yu, Sohail Husain. PRECLINICAL TESTING OF A NOVEL INTRADUCTAL CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR FORMULATION TO PREVENT POST-ERCP PANCREATITIS DEMONSTRATES ENDOCRINE AND SYSTEMIC SAFETY.  NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Nancy Rivera, Kaylie Nguyen, Venus Kalami, Rebecca Blankenburg, Ann Ming Yeh. AN INTERNATIONAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT DESCRIBING THE UTILITY, INTEREST, AND PRIORITIES OF SPECIFIC CARBOHYDRATE DIET EDUCATION AMONGST INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Anava Wren, Nicole Neiman, Elvi Sanjines, Ann Ming Yeh, Rachel Bensen. MINDFULNESS IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS TO KEY IBD-RELATED OUTCOMES. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Julia Sessions, Natasha Purington, Sean McGhee, Alka Goyal, Dorsey Bass, Nasim Khavari. PEDIATRIC EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS: COHORT CHARACTERIZATION AND OUTCOMES INVESTIGATION.  NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Aliye Uc, Savitri Appana, Gretchen Cress, Yuhua Zheng, David Troendle, Uzma Shah, Jose Serrano, Zachary Sellers, Sarah Schwarzenberg, John Pohl, Emily Perito, Keith Ooi, Jaimie Nathan, Veronique Morinville, Brian McFerron, Asim Maqbool, Maria Mascarenhas, Quin Liu, Tom Lin, Sohail Husain, Melvin Heyman, Tanja Gonska, Praveen Goday, Matthew Giefer, Cheryl Gariepy, Douglas Fishman, Kate Ellery, Melena Bellin, Bradley Barth, Maisam Abu-El-Haija, Ying Yuan, Mark Lowe. SEX DIFFERENCES IN PEDIATRIC ACUTE RECURRENT AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  •  Michael Joseph, Alka Goyal, Nasim Khavari. CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE AND CELIAC DISEASE: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Maria Peinado Fabregat, Ann Ming Yeh, Maheen Hassan, Rebecca Gardner, Kristopher Kapphahn. SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH IN CHILDREN: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY.  NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Monique Barakat, Sohail Husain, Roberto Gugig. SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF MINOR PAPILLOTOMY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH PANCREAS DIVISUM. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Monique Barakat, Roberto Gugig. ENDOSONOGRAPHIC ULTRASOUND (EUS)-GUIDED COIL PLACEMENT IS AN EFFECTIVE, SAFE, AND RADIATION-SPARING APPROACH FOR MANAGEMENT OF GASTRIC VARICEAL BLEEDING IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.  NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Julia Sessions, Natasha Purington, Sean McGhee, Alka Goyal, Dorsey Bass, Nasim Khavari. NOVEL SUBTYPING OF PEDIATRIC EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Neema Patel, Ashish Patel, Teena Sebastian, Subra Kugathasan, Alka Goyal, Sabina Ali. INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS OF SOUTH ASIAN ORIGIN IN UNITED STATES. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  •  Steven Levitte, Lori Lee, Richard Barth, Carlos Milla, Zachary Sellers. CLINICAL USE OF SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY FOR THE DETECTION OF LIVER FIBROSIS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS.  NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Brittany Matheson, Deanna Garza, Rachel Herdes, Elizabeth Shepard, Janey Pratt, Matias Bruzoni, Marwa Abu El Haija. THE EFFECT OF COVID PANDEMIC ON OBESITY - ANOTHER PANDEMIC. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Toshie Saito, Yue Luna Wei, Li Wen, Cheng-Yu Tsai, Ying Ding, Sohail Husain.  PANCREATITIS AFTER INDUCTION THERAPY IN CHILDREN WITH LEUKEMIA IS ASSOCIATED WITH UNIQUE PLASMA LIPIDOMIC SIGNATURES. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Zachary Sellers, Travis Piester, Jacob Mark, Racha Kalaf, Masiam Abu-El-Haija, Sohail Husain. A NEW TOOL TO IMPROVE EMERGENCY VISITS FOR CHILDREN WITH ACUTE RECURRENT AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS. NASPGHAN Annual Meeting [November 2020]

 

  • Herdes RE, Cagill YN, Gugig R, Ebel N. Spontaneous bile leak in the native liver of a child with Alagille Syndrome. Poster presentation, NASPGHAN virtual conference, November 1-7, 2020.

 

  • Romero D, Huang A, Ebel NH, Brown M, Enns GM, Esquivel CO, Bonham CA. Liver transplantation in infantile Navajo neurohepatopathy. Poster presentation, The Transplantation Society (TTS) virtual conference September 13-16, 2020.

 

  • Lori Wai Hang Lee.  CLINICAL USE OF ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIVER DISEASE SCRENING. Stanford Department Research Retreat.

 

  • Elizabeth Nguyen – 6th World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition. ACUTE LIVER FAILURE IN NEONATAL LUPUS: NOVEL TREATMENT WITH IVIG, EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION AND STEROIDS” Authors: Liz Nguyen, Alice Huang, Katelyn, Leina Alrabadi, Amrita Narang, Noelle Ebel. [June 2020]

 

  • Alice Huang – 6th World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition. “DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING INTERVENTION TO TREAT PEDIATRIC FUNCTIONAL CONSTIPATION AND PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION” [June 2020]

 

  • Maria Peinado Fabregat – 2020 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting.  “SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH IN CHILDREN: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY. Authors: Peinado Fabregat, Maria I; Hassan, Maheen A.; Gardner, Rebecca; Kapphahn, Kristopher, Yeh, Ann Ming.

 

  • American Transplant Congress as a poster: Perioperative Management and Post-liver Transplantation Outcomes In Methylmalonic Acidemia, Propionic Acidemia And Urea Cycle Disorders: 20 Years’ Experience.
    Author Block P. Vuong1, N. Ebel2, A. Brubaker1, P. Than1, C. Baker2, A. Pedroza1, K. Taylor1, S. Conlon1, D. Romero1, G. Enns2, C. Esquivel1, 1Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

 

  • Crohn's and Colitis Congress Presentation – MINDFULNESS-BASED VIRTUAL REALITY: A PROMISING MIND-BODY INTERVENTION FOR YOUTH WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. Authors: Anava A. Wren, Nicole Neiman, Martine Madill, Katherine Taylor, Hal Rives, Maria Menendez, Ellen Wang, Thomas Caruso, Samuel Rodriguez, Linda Nguyen

 

  • Zachary Sellers - “Correcting Defective Bicarbonate Secretion in Cystic Fibrosis: Applying Lessons from the Lungs and Intestines,” Cincinnati Children’s Hospital - April 22

 

  • Shayda Abazari (Sellers Lab) - Poster at the Department Research Retreat – Differential Prostaglandin E2 Receptor Mediation of Bicarbonate Secretion in Cystic Fibrosis Airways and Intestine. Authors: Shayda Abazari, Annie Trumbull, Alessia Farinazzo, Zachary M. Sellers

 

  • Yo-Yo Zhang – Poster at the Department Research Retreat – RECURRENT PANCREATITUS INCREASES RISK OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE IN U.S CHILDREN: EARLY WARNING SIGN OR CONTRIBUTORY RISK FACTOR? Authors: Ke-You Zhang, Melody Dehghan, Aida Habtezion, KT Park, Zachary Sellers.

 

  • Monique T. Barakat, Sohail Z. Husain, Roberto Gugig. THE MAJORITY OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH PANCREAS DIVISUM AND ACUTE RECURRENT PANCREATITIS EXPERIENCE CLINICAL IMPROVEMENT AFTER ERCP WITH MINOR PAPILLOTOMY (3349388). DDW 2020.

 

  • Monique T. Barakat, Subhas Banerjee. INCREASED CAPTURE OF POST-ERCP ADVERSE EVENTS BY DELAYED (DAY 7) FOLLOW-UP CALLS: A PROSPECTIVE COMPARISON OF PHYSICIAN AND NURSE-INITIATED CALLS (3349308). DDW 2020.
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