Walt Sipe, MD

Walter Sipe currently holds joint appointments as a Associate Clinical Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Within the Department of Pediatrics has a specialty clinic focussing on serving young people with autonomic instability and disorders of gut-brain interactions. He also teaches an advanced seminar on Acceptance and Commitment therapy to resident and fellow physicians in the Department of Psychiatry.
Education
Residency, 2011 - Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship, 2007 - Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, 2004 - Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
M.D., 2001 - School of Medicine, University of California San Diego
Websites

  1. Sipe WEB. Commentary on "Depression Screening in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinics: Recommendations and a Toolkit for Implementation". Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2020. PMID: 31651670


  2. Eisendrath SJ, Gillung E, Delucchi K, Mathalon DH, Yang TT, Satre DD, Rosser R, Sipe WE, Wolkowitz OM. A Preliminary Study: Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy versus Sertraline as First-line Treatments for Major Depressive Disorder. Mindfulness 2015. PMID: 26085853


  3. Sipe WE. Commentary on "psychotropic medications for pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders". Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2014. PMID: 24979477


  4. Sipe WE, Eisendrath SJ. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: theory and practice. Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie 2012. PMID: 22340145


  5. Sipe WE, Brierley SM, Martin CM, Phillis BD, Cruz FB, Grady EF, Liedtke W, Cohen DM, Vanner S, Blackshaw LA, Bunnett NW. Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 mediates protease activated receptor 2-induced sensitization of colonic afferent nerves and visceral hyperalgesia. American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 2008. PMID: 18325985


  6. Sipe WE, Rosenthal P. Autoimmune hepatitis in children: diagnosis, pathology and treatment. Expert review of clinical immunology 2007. PMID: 20477105


  7. Sipe WE, Su M, Posselt A, Kim GE, Quiros JA, Rosenthal P. Propylthiouracil-associated liver failure presenting as probable autoimmune hepatitis in a child with Graves' disease. Pediatric transplantation 2006. PMID: 16712616