Pamela Valentino, MD, MSc

Dr. Pamela Valentino is a Pediatric Transplant Hepatologist in the section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. Dr. Valentino trained in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and she completed sub-specialty training in Advanced Pediatric Transplant Hepatology at the Boston Children’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. At these centers of excellence in pediatrics, she has cared for infants and children with a spectrum of liver diseases. Dr. Valentino's research interests focus on conditions that cause bile duct injury and can threaten liver function. Primary sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease of the bile ducts, and she has worked on descriptive studies of natural history and clinical trials. Post-liver transplant, bile duct strictures occur in approximately 5% of patients. She is investigating biliary stricture management via multicenter collaborations through the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) to identify effective strategies to reduce repeated interventions and maximize graft and patient health. Outside of biliary disease, she examines UNOS data to investigate strategies associated with increased organ donor utilization to minimize pediatric mortality and morbidity.