Melissa Hurwitz, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Laura Bachrach Faculty Mentor Award of Excellence, LPCH, Stanford University, 2018
• Pediatric Clerkship Teaching Honor Roll, Letter of Distinction, LPCH, Stanford University, 2016-2017
• Pediatric Clerkship Teaching Honor Roll, LPCH, Stanford University, 2015-2016
• Recipient, Outstanding Fellow of the Year, LPCH, Stanford University, 2004
• Recipient, Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress, 2003
• Recipient, Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Research Award, Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA, 2000

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University 6/2004
• Internship/Residency Pediatrics Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA 6/2000
• M.D. Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine 05/1997
• B.A. Psychology UCLA 6/1992

Publications (17)

Top publication keywords:
VancomycinImmunosuppressive AgentsBotulinum ToxinsAlagille SyndromeOrganoidsSodium BenzoateHyperammonemiaPhenylacetatesTetralogy of FallotLymphoproliferative DisordersLiver TransplantationCholangitis, SclerosingOrnithine Carbamoyltransferase Deficiency DiseaseEpstein-Barr Virus InfectionsEsophageal Achalasia

• Human hepatic organoids for the analysis of human genetic diseases.
  JCI insight 2023 Guan Y, Xu D, Garfin PM, Ehmer U, Hurwitz M, Enns G, Michie S, Wu M, Zheng M, Nishimura T, Sage J, Peltz G
• Open-label prospective therapeutic clinical trials: oral vancomycin in children and adults with primary sclerosing cholangitis.
  Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology 2020 Ali AH, Damman J, Shah SB, Davies Y, Hurwitz M, Stephen M, Lemos LM, Carey EJ, Lindor KD, Buness CW, Alrabadi L, Berquist WE, Cox KL
• Prenatal treatment of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency.
  Molecular genetics and metabolism 2018 Wilnai Y, Blumenfeld YJ, Cusmano K, Hintz SR, Alcorn D, Benitz WE, Berquist WE, Bernstein JA, Castillo RO, Concepcion W, Cowan TM, Cox KL, Lyell DJ, Esquivel CO, Homeyer M, Hudgins L, Hurwitz M, Palma…
• Human hepatic organoids for the analysis of human genetic diseases.
  JCI insight 2017 Guan Y, Xu D, Garfin PM, Ehmer U, Hurwitz M, Enns G, Michie S, Wu M, Zheng M, Nishimura T, Sage J, Peltz G
• Neonatology: Clinical Practice and Procedures
  Congenital Liver Failure and Neonatal Hepatitis 2015 Burgis J, Hurwitz M

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• Intermediate-term outcomes after combined heart-liver transplantation in children with a univentricular heart.
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2013 Hollander SA, Reinhartz O, Maeda K, Hurwitz M, N Rosenthal D, Bernstein D
• Evaluation of ethanol lock therapy in pediatric patients on long-term parenteral nutrition.
  Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 2012 Pieroni KP, Nespor C, Ng M, Garcia M, Hurwitz M, Berquist WE, Kerner JA
• Impact of immunosuppression on the development of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) viremia after pediatric liver transplantation.
  Transplantation proceedings 2012 Lu BR, Park KT, Hurwitz M, Cox KL, Berquist WE
• Acute liver failure in a pediatric patient with disseminated tuberculosis.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2011 Whitney J, Hurwitz M, Mojtahed A, Hwang C, Gallo A
• Analysis of clinical variables associated with tolerance in pediatric liver transplant recipients.
  Pediatric transplantation 2010 Talisetti A, Hurwitz M, Sarwal M, Berquist W, Castillo R, Bass D, Concepcion W, Esquivel CO, Cox K
• Increased number of regulatory T cells in children with eosinophilic esophagitis.
  Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2010 Fuentebella J, Patel A, Nguyen T, Sanjanwala B, Berquist W, Kerner JA, Bass D, Cox K, Hurwitz M, Huang J, Nguyen C, Quiros JA, Nadeau K
• Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics
  Liver Transplantation 2006 Hurwitz M, Cox KL
• Nutrition in Pediatrics
  Parenteral Nutrition 2006 Hurwitz M, Kerner JA
• Complete immunosuppressive withdrawal as a uniform approach to post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease in pediatric liver transplantation.
  Pediatric transplantation 2004 Hurwitz M, Desai DM, Cox KL, Berquist WE, Esquivel CO, Millan MT
• Copper deficiency during parenteral nutrition: a report of four pediatric cases.
  Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 2004 Hurwitz M, Garcia MG, Poole RL, Kerner JA
• Gastroenterologia e Hepatologia em Pediatria
  Outras Alteracoes Pancreaticas. 2003 Hurwitz M, Berquist WE
• Evaluation of the use of botulinum toxin in children with achalasia.
  Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2000 Hurwitz M, Bahar RJ, Ament ME, Tolia V, Molleston J, Reinstein LJ, Walton JM, Erhart N, Wasserman D, Justinich C, Vargas J