Bio
Dr. Jericho is a pediatric gastroenterologist and the Inaugural Medical Director of the Celiac Disease Program at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Her unique balance of innovative, cutting edge research and patient-centric clinical care establishes her as an expert in the field of pediatric gastroenterology, with an emphasis on the diagnosis and management of celiac disease.
Dr. Jericho grew up in New London, CT in a physician-family, and completed the exclusive eight-year combined degree program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) at the Ivy League’s Brown University for college and medical school, graduating in 2006. She completed her pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2009, and both her pediatric gastroenterology fellowship at The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and her Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation at Northwestern University in June 2012, all top programs in her field. She joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Medical Center later that year, drawn by its world-renowned celiac disease center.
Her interest in pediatrics, nutrition, and patient-centric care started during medical school where she founded Fast Food Facts, a youth nutrition program to help increase children’s awareness of exercise, the body, and healthy food choices at home and when visiting fast food restaurants. This program is a predecessor to the nation-wide posting of fast food nutritional information. At every level of her academic and professional career, Dr. Jericho is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2003 American Medical Student Association National Jumpstart Grant, the 2010 Clinical Departments of Children’s Memorial Hospital and Children’s Memorial Research Center Tuition Scholarship, the 2014 UChicago Medicine Pediatric Faculty Scholar Program, the 2020 Medtronic External Research Grant and the 2021 RBC Race for the Kids at Comer Children’s Hospital Grant.
Dr. Jericho was appointed the Director of Pediatric Clinical Research at the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center in 2014 in addition to founding the non-invasive video capsule endoscopy (VCE) program, for which she was routinely called upon to consult with other hospitals for initiation of similar programs. In 2020 Dr. Jericho was additionally appointed Co-Director of Pediatric Endoscopy and under her vision and direction, the VCE program was expanded to become a part of the formal pediatric gastroenterology fellowship training program.
Dr. Jericho is deeply involved in both local community and national professional societies. She was the Director of the Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance (CCHA) endoscopy committee as well as a member of the CCHA celiac committee. She is a member of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) celiac special interest group as well as a member of CeliacKids (a pediatric multi-center celiac research focused collaborative), the Standards-Based Active Guideline Environment (a committee responsible for the establishment of guidelines for accommodating children with celiac disease within school settings across the United States), and the NASPGHAN Endoscopy committee.
Dr. Jericho’s clinical work and research in the field of pediatric celiac disease (CeD) is internationally recognized resulting in numerous publications, peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She has been an invited speaker at local CeD symposiums including the internationally attended, in-person and online, University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center educational preceptorship programs in 2014, 2016 and 2018, the annual celiac blood screening, the annual University of Chicago Lab Schools Health Fairs as well as a moderator and speaker at celiac symposiums at national meetings including the NASPGHAN annual meeting and Beyond Celiac.
