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Research Interests

Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Growth/Puberty
• Natural History
• Outcomes
• Risk Factors for Disease Complications
• Epidemiology
  

Clinical Specialties

• Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• General Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Recent Publications (selected)

• Gupta N, Cohen SA, Bostrom AG, Kirschner BS, Baldassano RN, Winter HS, Ferry GD, Smith T, Abramson O, Gold BD, Heyman MB. Risk Factors for Initial Surgery in Pediatric Patients with Crohn’s Disease. Gastroenterology 2006;130:1069–1077.
  
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• Gupta N, Bostrom AG, Kirschner BS, Ferry GD, Winter HS, Baldassano RN, Gold BD, Abramson O, Smith T, Cohen, SA, Heyman MB.  Gender Differences in Presentation and Course of Disease in Pediatric Patients with Crohn’s Disease. Pediatrics 2007; 120: e1418-1425.
  
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• Gupta N, Bostrom AG, Kirschner BS, Cohen SA, Abramson O, Ferry GD, Gold BD, Winter HS, Baldassano RN, Smith TS, and Heyman, MB. Presentation and Disease Course in Early Compared with Later Onset Pediatric Crohn’s Disease. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2008 Aug;103(8):2092-8
  
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• Heyman MB, Garnett EA, Wojcicki J, Gupta N, Davis C, Cohen SA,  Gold BD, Kirschner BS, Baldassano RN, Ferry GD, Winter HS, Kaplan SK.  Growth failure and growth hormone in pediatric Crohn’s disease.  Journal of Pediatrics, In Press.

Honors & Awards (selected)

• 2006-2008 Children’s Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation/Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America Award for New Investigators

• 2007-2009 Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America Career Development Award

• 2007-2012 NIH K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award

• 2008 UCSF Pediatric Clinical Research Center Pilot Funding Award
  

Training

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, BS with Honors, 1992-1996, Nutritional Sciences
• Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, MD, 1996-2000, Medicine
• The Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, Residency, 2000-2003, Pediatrics
• University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Fellowship, 2003-2006, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
• University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, MAS, 2004-2006, Clinical Research

Certificates

• 2003 Board Certified, Pediatrics
• 2007 Board Certified, Pediatric Gastroenterology