William Bernal, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine
William Bernal, MD, MPH, is a board certified pediatric rheumatologist who joined the faculty at UCSF in 2013. Previously, he was an attending physician in pediatric rheumatology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where he had completed his fellowship. At CHOP, Dr. Bernal worked in the Center for Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome at CHOP for two years.
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There, he was a member of a multidisciplinary team that treats pediatric patients with pain amplification syndromes, such as amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome, juvenile fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome. Dr. Bernal is continuing this work at UCSF as part of the Integrative Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program (IP3), where he and other providers see pediatric patients with chronic pain.
Education & Training
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- Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 2010
- Pediatrics Residency Children's Hospital Los Angeles 2007
- MD Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 2004
- MPH Tropical and Communicable Disease University of South Florida, College of Public Health 2000
Interests
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- data visualization
- juvenile fibromyalgia
- pain amplification syndromes
- complex regional pain syndrome
- patient reported outcome measures
Websites
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- @@W_Bernal on Twitter (twitter.com)
Publications (4)
Top publication keywords:
InfliximabDermatomyositisImmunologic Deficiency SyndromesMacrophage ActivationStress, PhysiologicalGlucocorticoidsEtanerceptRituximabLasersToll-Like Receptor 9MethotrexateReceptors, Interleukin-10Medication Therapy ManagementDrug Therapy, CombinationGuanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors
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Biologic therapies for refractory juvenile dermatomyositis: five years of experience of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance in North America.
Pediatric rheumatology online journal 2017 Spencer CH, Rouster-Stevens K, Gewanter H, Syverson G, Modica R, Schmidt K, Emery H, Wallace C, Grevich S, Nanda K, Zhao YD, Shenoi S, Tarvin S, Hong S, Lindsley C, Weiss JE, Passo M, Ede K, Brown A, … -
Brief report: alternative activation of laser-captured murine hemophagocytes.
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) 2014 Canna SW, Costa-Reis P, Bernal WE, Chu N, Sullivan KE, Paessler ME, Behrens EM -
Stress-induced changes in gene interactions in human cells.
Nucleic acids research 2013 Nayak RR, Bernal WE, Lee JW, Kearns MJ, Cheung VG -
Defective actin accumulation impairs human natural killer cell function in patients with dedicator of cytokinesis 8 deficiency.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2013 Mizesko MC, Banerjee PP, Monaco-Shawver L, Mace EM, Bernal WE, Sawalle-Belohradsky J, Belohradsky BH, Heinz V, Freeman AF, Sullivan KE, Holland SM, Torgerson TR, Al-Herz W, Chou J, Hanson IC, Albert …