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Whitney Marie Sunseri, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  • Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center

Dr. Whitney Sunseri is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the division of gastroenterology. She attended undergraduate school at the Penn State University. She went to the University of Illinois for medical school and completed her pediatric residency and Gastroenterology fellowship here at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She stayed on as faculty after completion of her training and now is the Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center where she cares for children and young adults living with Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative colitis. She participates in clinical research in the area of IBD along with pharmaceutical trials.

 

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships:

  • American Medical Association, 2007-2011
  • American Medical Student Association, 2007-2011
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 2011-2014
  • North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition (NASPGHAN), 2014-Present
    • Ethics Committee Member, 2015-2017
    • IBD Committee Member, 2018-Present
  • American Gastroenterological Association, 2016-Present
  • American Pancreatic Association, 2016-2018
  • Crohns and Colitis Foundation, 2017-Present
    • Pediatric Affairs Committee, 2021-Present

 

Education & Training

  • BA, Life Science, Pennsylvania State University, 2003-2007
  • MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 2011
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 2011-2014
  • Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 2014-2017

Selected Publications

Walker KA, Sims-Lucas S, Di Giovanni VE, Schaefer C, Sunseri WM, Novitskaya T, de Caestecker MP, Chen F, Bates CM. Deletion of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2 from the Peri-wolffian Duct Stroma Leads to Ureteric Induction abnormalities and Vesicoureteral Reflux. PLoS One. 8(2):e56062. 2013

Sunseri W, Hyams JS, Lerer T, Mack DR, Griffiths AM, Otley AR, Rosh JR, Carvalho, Grossman AB, Cabrera J, Pfefferkorn MD, Rick J, Leleiko NS, Hitch MC, Oliva-Hemker M, Saeed SA, Kappelman M, Markowitz J, Keljo DJ, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Collaborative Research Group. Retrospective Cohort Study of Methotrexate Use in the Treatment of Pediatric Crohn’s Disease. Oral Presentation 2013 Digestive Disease Week.

Sunseri W, Hyams JS, Lerer T, Mack DR, Griffiths AM, Otley AR, Rosh JR, Carvalho, Grossman AB, Cabrera J, Pfefferkorn MD, Rick J, Leleiko NS, Hitch MC, Oliva-Hemker M, Saeed SA, Kappelman M, Markowitz J, Keljo DJ, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Collaborative Research Group. Retrospective Cohort Study of Methotrexate Use in the Treatment of Pediatric Crohn’s Disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis. Aug;20(8):1241-5. 2014

Sunseri WM, Kugathasan S, Keljo DJ, Greer JB, Ranganathan S, Cross RK, Siegel CA, Regueiro MD. IBD LIVE Case Series-Case 3: Very Early-Onset Inflamm Bowel Dis: When Genetic Testing Proves Beneficial. Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dec; 21(12):2958-68 2015

Sunseri W, Jones G, Xiao X, Lowe ME. Carboxyl Ester Lipase Hybrid Gene and the unfolded protein response: A novel trypsin independent model of injury in pancreatic acinar cells. Oral Presentation 2016 American Pancreas Association Annual Conference

Sunseri W, Jones G, Xiao X, Lowe ME. Carboxyl Ester Lipase Hybrid Gene and the unfolded protein response: A novel trypsin independent model of injury in pancreatic acinar cells. Poster Presentation 2016 Rangos Research Day

Full Publication List via NIH PubMed »

Academic and Research Interests

  • IBD
  • Crohns disease
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Indeterminate colitis
  • Nutrition therapy
  • Pediatric Gastroenterology