Sofia Verstraete, MD

Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Pediatric Gastroenterology, 2016 - Pediatrics, U.C.S.F.
Masters in Advanced Science, 2014 - Epidemiology and Biostatistics, U.C.S.F.
Pediatrics, 2012 - Pediatrics, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital
M.D., 2008 - Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Honors and Awards
  • John A. Watson Faculty Scholar, U.C.S.F., 2016
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Teaching Award, U.C.S.F. Dept of Pediatrics, 2016

  1. McLaughlin JF, Linville T, Jester TW, Marciano TA, Lazare F, Dotson JL, Samson C, Niklinska-Schirtz B, Cabrera J, Leibowtiz I, Batra S, Ammoury R, Strople JA, Saeed S, Sandberg KC, Tung J, Verstraete SG, Cox RF, Na S, Steiner SJ, Ali SA, Israel EJ, Dorsey J, Adler J, Rekhtman Y, Egberg MD, Waduge ER, Savas J, Brensinger CM, Lewis JD, Kappelman MD. Travel Time to Treating Center is Associated with Diagnostic Delay in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2024. PMID: 39181423


  2. Kuo J, Uzunovic J, Jacobson A, Dourado M, Gierke S, Rajendram M, Keilberg D, Mar J, Stekol E, Curry J, Verstraete S, Lund J, Liang Y, Tamburini FB, Omattage NS, Masureel M, Rutherford ST, Hackos DH, Tan MW, Byrd AL, Keir ME, Skippington E, Storek KM. Toxigenic Clostridium perfringens isolated from at-risk pediatric inflammatory bowel disease patients. Journal of Crohn's & colitis 2024. PMID: 38267224


  3. Patel PV, Zhang A, Bhasuran B, Ravindranath VG, Heyman MB, Verstraete SG, Butte AJ, Rosen MJ, Rudrapatna VA, ImproveCareNow Pediatric IBD Learning Health System. Real-world effectiveness of ustekinumab and vedolizumab in TNF-exposed pediatric patients with ulcerative colitis. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2024. PMID: 38482890


  4. Joi F. McLaughlin, Tiffany Linville, Traci W. Jester, Tuvia Marciano, Farrah Lazare, Jennifer L. Dotson, Charles Samson, Subra Kugathasan, Jose Cabrera, Ian Leibowitz, Suruchi Batra, Rana Ammoury, Jennifer A. Strople, Shezad A. Saeed, Kelly C. Sandberg, Jeanne Tung, Sofia G. Verstraete, Ryan F. Cox, Sera Na, Steven Steiner, Sabina A. Ali, Esther J. Israel, Jill Dorsey, Jeremy Adler, Yuliya Rekhtman, Matthew D. Egberg, Emmala R. Waduge, Jen Savas, Maureen McCauley, Colleen Brensinger, James D. Lewis, Michael Kappelman. 862 TRAVEL TIME TO TREATING CENTER, BUT NOT RACE OR ETHNICITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH DIAGNOSTIC DELAY IN PEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. Gastroenterology 2023. PMID:


  5. Patel PV, Kao E, Stekol E, Heyman MB, Vu L, Verstraete SG. Evaluating the Relationship Between Nutrition and Post-colectomy Pouchitis in Pediatric Patients with Ulcerative Colitis. Digestive diseases and sciences 2023. PMID: 36807017


  6. Verburgt CM, Dunn KA, Otley A, Heyman MB, Verstraete S, Sunseri W, Sylvester F, de Meij T, Comeau A, Langille M, de Jonge WJ, Benninga MA, Van Limbergen JE. Personalised azithromycin+metronidazole (PAZAZ), in combination with standard induction therapy, to achieve a faecal microbiome community structure and metagenome changes associated with sustained remission in paediatric Crohn's disease (CD): protocol of BMJ open 2023. PMID: 36725090


  7. Cuneo AA, Abu-El-Haija M, Marsac ML, Verstraete S, Heyman MB, Ly N, Perito ER. Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Pancreatitis and Cystic Fibrosis. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2022. PMID: 35881966


  8. Perseus Patel, Emily Stekol, Emily Kao, Mel Heyman, Lan T. Vu, Sofia G. Verstraete. Sa1635: IMPACT OF NUTRITION AND GROWTH MEASURES ON POUCHITIS FOLLOWING PROCTOCOLECTOMY FOR PEDIATRIC ULCERATIVE COLITIS. Gastroenterology 2022. PMID:


  9. Kaplan HC, Opipari-Arrigan L, Yang J, Schmid CH, Schuler CL, Saeed SA, Braly KL, Chang F, Murphy L, Dodds CM, Nuding M, Liu H, Pilley S, Stone J, Woodward G, Yokois N, Goyal A, Lee D, Yeh AM, Lee P, Gold BD, Molle-Rios Z, Zwiener RJ, Ali S, Chavannes M, Linville T, Patel A, Ayers T, Bassett M, Boyle B, Palomo P, Verstraete S, Dorsey J, Kaplan JL, Steiner SJ, Nguyen K, Burgis J, Suskind DL, ImproveCareNow Pediatric IBD Learning Health System. Personalized Research on Diet in Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease (PRODUCE): A Series of N-of-1 Diet Trials. 2022. PMID: 35442220


  10. Patel PV, Wallach T, Rosenbluth G, Heyman M, Verstraete S. Improving ondansetron use and oral rehydration instructions for pediatric acute gastroenteritis. 2022. PMID: 35347066


  11. Guillo L, Abreu M, Panaccione R, Sandborn WJ, Azevedo VF, Gensler L, Moghaddam B, Ahuja V, Ali SA, Allez M, Ananthakrishnan AN, Bhattacharya A, Dubinsky M, Griffiths A, Hart A, Korelitz B, Kotze PG, Koutroubakis IE, Lakatos PL, Lindsay JO, Magro F, Mantzaris GJ, Ng SC, O'Morain C, Panés J, Parigi T, Ran Z, Rogler G, Rubin DT, Sachar DB, Siegmund B, Steinwurz F, Tysk C, Vavricka S, Verstraete SG, Brezin AP, Haemel AK, Dignass A, Sands BE, Danese S, Peyrin-Biroulet L. Endpoints for extraintestinal manifestations in inflammatory bowel disease trials: the EXTRA consensus from the International Organization for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 2022. PMID: 35051383


  12. Kim FS, Patel PV, Stekol E, Ali S, Hamandi H, Heyman MB, Verstraete SG. Experience Using Ustekinumab in Pediatric Patients with Medically Refractory Crohn's Disease. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2021. PMID: 34415711


  13. Schenker RB, Wilson E, Russell M, Cooke LC, Heyman MB, Verstraete SG. Recommendations for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adolescents and Young Adults With Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2021. PMID: 33394890


  14. Verstraete SG, Sola AM, Ali SA. Telemedicine for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Era of COVID-19. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2020. PMID: 32443060


  15. Rachel Schenker, Erin Wilson, Meredith Russell, Laura C. Cooke, Mel Heyman, Sofia G. Verstraete. Mo1894 APPROACH TO TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING (TGNC) YOUTH IN A PEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE CENTER. Gastroenterology 2020. PMID:


  16. Addison Cuneo, Sofia G. Verstraete, Mel Heyman, Becca Trombler, Joanna Curry, Emily Perito. Mo1901 CHILDREN WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE EXPERIENCE HIGH RATES OF TRAUMA SECONDARY TO MEDICAL TREATMENT. Gastroenterology 2020. PMID:


  17. Emilie Regner, Vivek Rudrapatna, Sofia G. Verstraete, Bilal Hameed, Uma Mahadevan. Sa1851 LOW PREVALENCE OF NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE IN ADOLESCENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. Gastroenterology 2020. PMID:


  18. Patel PV, Pantell MS, Heyman MB, Verstraete S. Depression Predicts Prolonged Length of Hospital Stay in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2019. PMID: 31261246


  19. Francis Kim, Perseus Patel, Emily Stekol, Laura C. Cooke, Mel Heyman, Sofia G. Verstraete. Tu1710 – Ustekinumab to Treat Pediatric Patients with Crohn's Disease: A Single Center Experience. Gastroenterology 2019. PMID:


  20. Perseus Patel, Sofia G Verstraete, Matt Pantel. P019 DEPRESSION PREDICTS LENGTH OF HOSPITAL STAY IN PEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. Inflammatory bowel diseases 2019. PMID:


  21. Perseus Patel, Sofia G. Verstraete, Matt Pantel. P019 DEPRESSION PREDICTS LENGTH OF HOSPITAL STAY IN PEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. Gastroenterology 2019. PMID:


  22. Fernandes MA, Verstraete SG, Phan TG, Deng X, Stekol E, LaMere B, Lynch SV, Heyman MB, Delwart E. Enteric Virome and Bacterial Microbiota in Children With Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn Disease. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2019. PMID: 30169455


  23. Suh JH, Degagné É, Gleghorn EE, Setty M, Rodriguez A, Park KT, Verstraete SG, Heyman MB, Patel AS, Irek M, Gildengorin GL, Hubbard NE, Borowsky AD, Saba JD. Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Signaling and Metabolism Gene Signature in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Matched-case Control Pilot Study. Inflammatory bowel diseases 2018. PMID: 29788359


  24. Verstraete SG, Wojcicki JM, Perito ER, Rosenthal P. Bisphenol a increases risk for presumed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in Hispanic adolescents in NHANES 2003-2010. Environmental health : a global access science source 2018. PMID: 29391015


  25. Melissa A. Fernandes, Sofia Verstraete, Melvin B. Heyman. Natural History of Pediatric Indeterminate Colitis. Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2017. PMID:


  26. Robson JO, Verstraete SG, Shiboski S, Heyman MB, Wojcicki JM. A Risk Score for Childhood Obesity in an Urban Latino Cohort. The Journal of pediatrics 2016. PMID: 26952117


  27. Fernandes MA, Verstraete SG, Garnett EA, Heyman MB. Addition of Histology to the Paris Classification of Pediatric Crohn Disease Alters Classification of Disease Location. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2016. PMID: 26334258


  28. Urban LE, Weber JL, Heyman MB, Schichtl RL, Verstraete S, Lowery NS, Das SK, Schleicher MM, Rogers G, Economos C, Masters WA, Roberts SB. Energy Contents of Frequently Ordered Restaurant Meals and Comparison with Human Energy Requirements and U.S. Department of Agriculture Database Information: A Multisite Randomized Study. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2016. PMID: 26803805


  29. Verstraete SG, Heyman MB, Wojcicki JM. Breastfeeding offers protection against obesity in children of recently immigrated Latina women. Journal of community health 2014. PMID: 24249439