Geraldina Lionetti, MD

Dr. Lionetti is a board-certified pediatric rheumatologist committed to treating children, teens, and young adults with rheumatic disease. She completed her Pediatric internship and residency at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and her Pediatric Rheumatology fellowship at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University. She serves as the Medical Director and Section Chief of the Pediatric Rheumatology division at UCSF Benioff Children’s Oakland.
Her clinical work focuses on improving outcomes for children with rheumatic diseases through comprehensive evaluations and individualized treatment plans, with the goal of reducing morbidity so they may enter adulthood unhindered by their disease. Her primary areas of interest include mitigating treatment-related sequelae, auto-inflammatory disorders, improved access to subspecialty care, and resident education. To ensure adequate access to care, she also sees patients in the Walnut Creek outreach clinic and is involved in developing a telehealth program.
Clinics:
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
744 52nd Street, OPC I, 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94609
Walnut Creek location:
2401 Shadelands Drive
Walnut Creek, CA
Education
6/2013 - Postdoctoral fellow, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
6/2012 - Pediatric Rheumatology fellowship, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
6/2009 - Pediatric residency, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
MD, 5/2006 - Medical Degree, Drexel University College of Medicine
MBS, 5/2002 - Masters of Biological Sciences, Hahnemann University
BS, 5/2000 - Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Connecticut

  1. Mansfield LM, Lapidus SK, Romero SN, Moorthy LN, Adler-Shohet FC, Hollander M, Cherian J, Twilt M, Lionetti G, Mohan S, DeLaMora PA, Durrant KL, Muskardin TW, Correia Marques M, Onel KB, Dedeoglu F, Gutierrez MJ, Schulert G, CARRA Autoinflammatory Network Consortium for the CARRA PFAPA/Autoinflammatory Working Group. Corrigendum: Increase in pediatric recurrent fever evaluations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in North America. Frontiers in pediatrics 2023. PMID: 38027299


  2. Mansfield LM, Lapidus SK, Romero SN, Moorthy LN, Adler-Shohet FC, Hollander M, Cherian J, Twilt M, Lionetti G, Mohan S, DeLaMora PA, Durrant KL, Muskardin TW, Correia Marques M, Onel KB, Dedeoglu F, Guttierez MJ, Schulert G, CARRA Autoinflammatory Network Consortium for the CARRA PFAPA/Autoinflammatory Working Group. Increase in pediatric recurrent fever evaluations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in North America. Frontiers in pediatrics 2023. PMID: 37601132


  3. Son MBF, Berbert L, Young C, Dallas J, Newhams M, Chen S, Ardoin SP, Basiaga ML, Canny SP, Crandall H, Dhakal S, Dhanrajani A, Sagcal-Gironella ACP, Hobbs CV, Huie L, James K, Jones M, Kim S, Lionetti G, Mannion ML, Muscal E, Prahalad S, Schulert GS, Tejtel KS, Villacis-Nunez DS, Wu EY, Zambrano LD, Campbell AP, Patel MM, Randolph AG, Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators. Postdischarge Glucocorticoid Use and Clinical Outcomes of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. JAMA network open 2022. PMID: 36367723


  4. Halasa NB, Olson SM, Staat MA, Newhams MM, Price AM, Boom JA, Sahni LC, Cameron MA, Pannaraj PS, Bline KE, Bhumbra SS, Bradford TT, Chiotos K, Coates BM, Cullimore ML, Cvijanovich NZ, Flori HR, Gertz SJ, Heidemann SM, Hobbs CV, Hume JR, Irby K, Kamidani S, Kong M, Levy ER, Mack EH, Maddux AB, Michelson KN, Nofziger RA, Schuster JE, Schwartz SP, Smallcomb L, Tarquinio KM, Walker TC, Zinter MS, Gilboa SM, Polen KN, Campbell AP, Randolph AG, Patel MM, Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators, Overcoming COVID-19 Network. Effectiveness of Maternal Vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy Against COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization in Infants Aged <6 Months - 17 States, July 2021-January 2022. 2022. PMID: 35176002


  5. Zambrano LD, Newhams MM, Olson SM, Halasa NB, Price AM, Boom JA, Sahni LC, Kamidani S, Tarquinio KM, Maddux AB, Heidemann SM, Bhumbra SS, Bline KE, Nofziger RA, Hobbs CV, Bradford TT, Cvijanovich NZ, Irby K, Mack EH, Cullimore ML, Pannaraj PS, Kong M, Walker TC, Gertz SJ, Michelson KN, Cameron MA, Chiotos K, Maamari M, Schuster JE, Orzel AO, Patel MM, Campbell AP, Randolph AG, Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators. Effectiveness of BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) mRNA Vaccination Against Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Among Persons Aged 12-18 Years - United States, July-December 2021. 2022. PMID: 35025852


  6. Amarilyo G, Rothman D, Manthiram K, Edwards KM, Li SC, Marshall GS, Yildirim-Toruner C, Haines K, Ferguson PJ, Lionetti G, Cherian J, Zhao Y, DeLaMora P, Syverson G, Nativ S, Twilt M, Michelow IC, Stepanovskiy Y, Thatayatikom A, Harel L, Akoghlanian S, Tucker L, Marques MC, Srinivasalu H, Propst EJ, Licameli GR, Dedeoglu F, Lapidus S, CARRA PFAPA Consensus Treatment Plan Workgroup. Consensus treatment plans for periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis syndrome (PFAPA): a framework to evaluate treatment responses from the childhood arthritis and rheumatology research alliance (CARRA) PFAPA work group. Pediatric rheumatology online journal 2020. PMID: 32293478


  7. Manthiram K, Li SC, Hausmann JS, Amarilyo G, Barron K, Kim H, Nativ S, Lionetti G, Zeft A, Goldsmith D, Kimberlin D, Edwards K, Dedeoglu F, Lapidus S, Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) PFAPA Subcommittee. Physicians' perspectives on the diagnosis and management of periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome. Rheumatology international 2017. PMID: 28271158


  8. Holzinger D, Fassl SK, de Jager W, Lohse P, Röhrig UF, Gattorno M, Omenetti A, Chiesa S, Schena F, Austermann J, Vogl T, Kuhns DB, Holland SM, Rodríguez-Gallego C, López-Almaraz R, Arostegui JI, Colino E, Roldan R, Fessatou S, Isidor B, Poignant S, Ito K, Epple HJ, Bernstein JA, Jeng M, Frankovich J, Lionetti G, Church JA, Ong PY, LaPlant M, Abinun M, Skinner R, Bigley V, Sachs UJ, Hinze C, Hoppenreijs E, Ehrchen J, Foell D, Chae JJ, Ombrello A, Aksentijevich I, Sunderkoetter C, Roth J. Single amino acid charge switch defines clinically distinct proline-serine-threonine phosphatase-interacting protein 1 (PSTPIP1)-associated inflammatory diseases. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2015. PMID: 26025129


  9. Lionetti G, Kimura Y, Schanberg LE, Beukelman T, Wallace CA, Ilowite NT, Winsor J, Fox K, Natter M, Sundy JS, Brodsky E, Curtis JR, Del Gaizo V, Iyasu S, Jahreis A, Meeker-O'Connell A, Mittleman BB, Murphy BM, Peterson ED, Raymond SC, Setoguchi S, Siegel JN, Sobel RE, Solomon D, Southwood TR, Vesely R, White PH, Wulffraat NM, Sandborg CI. Using registries to identify adverse events in rheumatic diseases. Pediatrics 2013. PMID: 24144710


  10. Geraldina Lionetti, Jonathan A Bernstein, Dirk Holzinger, Michael Jeng, Johannes Roth, Neda Zadeh, Joyce Hsu. IL-1 blockade as a novel approach to treatment of hyperzincemia and hypercalprotectinemia, a possible new autoinflammatory syndrome. Pediatric Rheumatology 2012. PMID:


  11. Geraldina Lionetti, Sivia Lapidus, Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky, Jennifer Frankovich. Autoinflammatory Diseases in the Neonate: Mimickers of Neonatal Infections. Neoreviews 2010. PMID: