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CURRICULUM VITAE

Jose Mariano Cabrera MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Children’s Wisconsin - Specialty Clinics Building
8915 W Connell Court
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
08/1996 - 05/2000 B.A. cum laude, Duke University, NC
08/2001 - 05/2005 M.D., University of South Alabama College of Medicine, AL

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/2005 - 07/2012 Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship;, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Indiana University School of Medicine, 705 Riley Hospital Drive ROC 4210, Indianapolis, IN 46202
07/2005 - 07/2009 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children, 705 Riley Hospital Drive Riley 5867, Indianapolis, IN 46202

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
08/2012 - 07/2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, The Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226
07/2020 - Present Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, The Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
08/2013 - 08/2018 Associate Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226
08/2018 - Present Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226

HOSPITAL AND CLINICAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
04/2018 - Present Member, CHW Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
08/2012 - Present Children's Wisconsin Fox Valley, 130 Second St West Pavilion, Neenah, WI 54956
08/2012 - Present Children's Wisconsin, 9000 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53226

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
American Board of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
10/12/2009
12/20/2024
American Board of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
11/18/2013
12/2024
   
Licensure
Number Issue DateExpiration
Wisconsin License
57271
05/24/2012
10/31/2025
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
2000 Duke History Scholarship
2001 Clyde G. Huggins, Ph.D. Medical Student Research Award
2001 USA COM Medical Alumni Freshman Scholarship
2004 Les Stockwell Memorial Scholarship USA COM
2009 CQI Project Indiana Internal Medicine Residency
2009 Riley Hospital Red Shoes Award

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
07/2005 - Present American Academy of Pediatrics
07/2009 - Present North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
07/2013 - Present Member and Chapter Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), Wisconsin Chapter of Crohn's & Colitis Foundation (CCF)

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
07/2014 - 03/2019 Member, Improve Care Now Research Committee

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Active
Peer Review
Title:
COMBINE
Source:
ICN (Improve Care Now)
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
Direct Funds:
$1,285,000 (total for all years)
  
Title:
SAFR Kids
Source:
ICN (Improve Care Now)
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
Direct Funds:
$1,285,000 (total for all years)
  
Title:
REALITI
Source:
ICN (Improve Care Now)
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
Direct Funds:
$50,000
  
Prior
Peer Review
Title:
A Non-interventional Long-term Post-Marketing Registry of Patients Treated with Certolizumab Pegol for Crohn's disease
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator-Assumed role in 7/2018
  
Title:
Pediatric IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Registry
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
  
Title:
REMICADE Safety Under Long-Term Study In Ulcerative Colitis
Source:
Janssen Research and Development, LLC
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
  
Title:
Blood samples from Pediatric Subjects for Use in the Development of Gastrointestinal Disease Tests
Source:
Prometheus Laboratories Inc.
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
  

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Co-presented with Jennifer Dotson, Marci Johnson from Nationwide Children's Hospital, External Infliximab Infusions in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Improve Care Now Fall 2017 Community Conference:
Plenary Presentation, ICN at Wisconsin 2014, Improve Care Now Fall 2014 Community Conference:
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Medical Student Education
2013 "Head to Toe." Proctoring medical students at MCW during examinations of children during first/second year of medical school.
2018 "Pediatric Subspecialties" interest group discussion with MCW students
 
Resident and Fellow Education
08/2013 - 07/2018 Associate program director of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at MCW/CHW
10/2014 - 07/2017 Member of Clinical Competence Committee (CCC)/ Program Evaluation Committee (PEC) for the Pediatric Residency at MCW
07/2018 - Present Program Director pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at MCW/CHW
 
Community/Lay Public
2013 Presenter for "Pediatric IBD", IBD Update
2016 Presenter for "Transitional Care for IBD", IBD Update
2019 Presenter for "Nutritional Therapy for Crohn's disease", IBD Update
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Community/Lay Public
01/16/2013 St. Agnes Hospital, Inflammatory Bowel Disease In Children, CME Lecture
03/16/2013 Children's Wisconsin, Life After Surgery for IBD, IBD Family Forum
2014 CHW Fox Valley, Health Maintenance with IBD, CME Event
2015 CHW Fox Valley, Eosinophilic Esophagitis, CME Event
 

MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Medical Students
2014 Keli Coleman, MCW MS accepted to Pediatrics Residency at MCW, Medical College of Wisconsin
2014 Tyler Koehn:, MCW MS accepted to Air Force Neurology Residency in San Antonio TX (BAMC), Medical College of Wisconsin
Jessica Kim, MCW MS accepted to University of Utah Pediatric Residency, Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Residents
Dr. Haley Mertens, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics resident, Medical College of Wisconsin
 

PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS:
Educational Programs
Fellow
2014 - 2015 Development and implementation of CHW GI Journal Club curriculum for Pediatric GI division
Faculty
2015 - Present Development and implementation of GI conference curriculum and evaluation system for Pediatric GI division at CHW
 
 
Clinical Programs
2014 - Present QI Champion for GI division at CHW, Physician leader supervising Implementation of CHW IBD QI team for ImproveCareNow
2015 Recongized as one of three "top" QI projects for CW
2017 - Present Co-Director of CHW IBD program
 
 

COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
2013 - Present Medical staff for Camp Oasis organized by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Cabrera, Jose; Davis, Miriam; Horn, Debbie; Pfefferkorn, Marian; Croffie, Joseph M. "Esophageal pH Monitoring with the BRAVO??? Capsule: Experience in a Large Number of Patients at a Single Tertiary Medical Center." Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition. 53(4):404-408, October 2011.
2. Julia Sorbara, David R. Mack, Trudy Lerer, Anthony R. Otley, Neal S. Leleiko, Anne M. Griffiths, Jonathan Evans, David J. Keljo, Marian D. Pfefferkorn, Joel R. Rosh, James Rick, Athos Bousvaros, Maria Oliva-Hemker, Jose Cabrera, Ryan Carvalho, Shehzad A. Saeed, Andrew B. Grossman, Michael Kappelman, Meredith C. Hitch, William A. Faubion, Marc Schaefer, Boris Sudel, James Markowitz, Jeffrey S. Hyams. "953 Prolonged Exposure to Prednisone Is Decreasing in Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) During the Last Decade." Gastro 2013 May Pg S-173.
3. Sunseri W, Hyams JS, Lerer T, Mack DR, Griffiths AM, Otley AR, Rosh JR, Carvalho R, 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. 2014 Aug;20(8):1341-5. PMID: 24983976
4. Goyal A, Hyams JS, Lerer T, Leleiko NS, Otley AR, Griffiths AM, Rosh JR, Cabrera JM, Oliva-Hemker MM, Mack DR, Rick JN, Pfefferkorn MD, Carvalho R, Grossman AB, Hitch MC, Sudel B, Kappelman MD, Saeed SA, Faubion WA, Schaefer ME, Markowitz JF, Keljo DJ; Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Collaborative Research Group. "Liver enzyme elevations within 3 months of diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease and likelihood of liver disease." J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2014 Sep;59(3):321-3. PMID: 24796799
5. Grossi V, Lerer T, Griffiths A, LeLeiko N, Cabrera J, Otley A, Rick J, Mack D, Bousvaros A, Rosh J, Grossman A, Saeed S, Kay M, Boyle B, Oliva-Hemker M, Keljo D, Pfefferkorn M, Faubion W, Kappelman MD, Sudel B, Markowitz J, Hyams JS. "Concomitant Use of Immunomodulators Affects the Durability of Infliximab Therapy in Children With Crohn's Disease. " Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2015 Apr 21. PMID: 25911120
6. Oliva-Hemker M, Hutfless S, Al Kazzi ES, Lerer T, Mack D, LeLeiko N, Griffiths A, Cabrera J, Otley A, Rick J, Bousvaros A, Rosh J, Grossman A, Saeed S, Kay M, Carvalho R, Keljo D, Pfefferkorn M, Faubion W Jr, Kappelman M, Sudel B, Schaefer ME, Markowitz J, Hyams JS. "Clinical Presentation and Five-Year Therapeutic Management of Very Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Large North American Cohort." J Pediatr. 2015 May 15. PMID: 25982142
7. Liu TC, Gurram B, Baldridge M, Head R, Lam V, Luo C, Cao Y, Simpson P, Hayward M, Holtz M, Noe J, Lerner D, Cabrera J, Biank V, Stephens M, Huttenhower C, McGovern D, Xavier R, Stappenbeck T, Salzman N. "Paneth Cell Phenotypes Define a Subtype of Pediatric Crohn's Disease Through Alterations in Host-Microbial Interactions." Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2016 Mar;22 Suppl 1:S4. PMID: 26849729.
8. Anam Bashir,MD, Jose M. Cabrera,MD, Mariko Suchi,MD, PhD, Barry J. Pelz,MD., Hypereosinophilic Syndrome with Pulmonary Involvement in Ulcerative Colitis, JPGN Rep. 2023 Aug; 4(3): e320
9. Turner D,Carle A,Steiner SJ,Margolis PA, Colletti RB, Russell RK, Levine A, Kolho KL, Ruemmele FM; ImproveCareNow Network (Cabrera J). "Quality Items Required for Running Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre: An ECCO Paper." J Crohns Colitis. 2017 Aug 1;11(8):981-987. PMID: 28789473
10. Gumidyala AP, Greenley RN, Plevinsky JM, Poulopoulos N, Cabrera J, Lerner D, Noe JD, Walkiewicz D, Werlin S, Kahn SA . "Moving On: Transition Readiness in Adolescents and Young Adults With IBD. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2018 Feb 15;24(3):482-489. PMID: 29462383.
11. Cabrera, JM. Sato TT. "Medical and Surgical Management of Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis." Clin Colon Rectal Surg. 2018 Mar;31(2):71-79. PMID: 29487489
12. Fritz J, Walia C, Elkadri A, Pipkorn R, Dunn RK, Sieracki R, Goday PS, Cabrera JM. "Systematic Review of Micronutrient Deficiencies in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2018 Aug 21. PMID: 30137322
13. Blumenthal S, Cabrera J, Drolet BA, Nocton J, Sulman C, Toth H, Verpraskas S."Persistent Facial Swelling in an 8-Year-Old." J Pediatr. 2019 Jan;204:318-318.e1. PMID: 30274921
14. Pratt, J, Jeffers, D, King, EC, Kappelman, MD, Collins, J, Margolis, P, Baron, H, Bass, JA, Bassett, MD, Beasley, GL, Benkov, KJ, Bornstein, JA, Cabrera, JM, Crandall, W, Dancel, LD, Garin-Laflam, MP, Grunow, JE, Hirsch, BZ, Hoffenberg, E, Israel, E, Jester, TW, Kiparissi, F, Lakhole, A, Lapsia, SP, Minar, P, Navarro, FA, Neef, H, Park, KT, Pashankar, DS, Patel, AS, Pineiro, VM, Samson, CM, Sandberg, KC, Steiner, SJ, Strople, JA, Sudel, B, Sullivan, JS, Suskind, DL, Uppal, V and Wali, PD 2019. "Implementing a Novel Quality Improvement-Based Approach to Data Quality Monitoring and Enhancement in a Multipurpose Clinical Registry. "eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes), 7(1): 51, pp. 1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/egems.262
15. Gupta N, Liu C, King E, et al. ImproveCareNow Network (including Cabrera J) "Continued Statural Growth in Older Adolescents and Young Adults With Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Beyond the Time of Expected Growth Plate Closure."Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2020;izz334. doi:10.1093/ibd/izz334. PMID: 31968095
16. Dharmaraj R, Dunn R, Fritz J, Dasgupta M, Simpson P, Cabrera J, Miranda A and Lerner D. "Efficacy and Safety of Carbon Dioxide Versus Air Insufflation for Colonoscopy in Deeply Sedated Pediatric Patients." J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2020;71(1):34-39. doi:10.1097/MPG.0000000000002650 PMID: 32044831
17. Prashanthi Kandavel, Sally J. Eder, and Jeremy Adler, and the ImproveCareNow Network Pediatric IBD Learning Health System (including Cabrera J). "Reduced Systemic Corticosteroid Use among Pediatric Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Large Learning Health System." JPGN 2021;73: 345-351. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000003182.
18. Use, Durability, and Risks for Discontinuation of Initial and Subsequent Biologics in a Large Pediatric-Onset IBD Cohort. (Kaplan JL, Liu C, King EC, Bass JA, Patel AS, Tung J, Chen S, Lissoos T, Candela N, Saeed S, Colletti RB, for the ImproveCareNow Network ) J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2023 May 01;76(5):566-575 PMID: 36804501 PMCID: PMC10097486 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85153544248 02/23/2023
19. Trial of Endovascular Thrombectomy for Large Ischemic Strokes. (Sarraj A, Hassan AE, Abraham MG, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Kasner SE, Hussain MS, Chen M, Blackburn S, Sitton CW, Churilov L, Sundararajan S, Hu YC, Herial NA, Jabbour P, Gibson D, Wallace AN, Arenillas JF, Tsai JP, Budzik RF, Hicks WJ, Kozak O, Yan B, Cordato DJ, Manning NW, Parsons MW, Hanel RA, Aghaebrahim AN, Wu TY, Cardona-Portela P, Pérez de la Ossa N, Schaafsma JD, Blasco J, Sangha N, Warach S, Gandhi CD, Kleinig TJ, Sahlein D, Elijovich L, Tekle W, Samaniego EA, Maali L, Abdulrazzak MA, Psychogios MN, Shuaib A, Pujara DK, Shaker F, Johns H, Sharma G, Yogendrakumar V, Ng FC, Rahbar MH, Cai C, Lavori P, Hamilton S, Nguyen T, Fifi JT, Davis S, Wechsler L, Pereira VM, Lansberg MG, Hill MD, Grotta JC, Ribo M, Campbell BC, Albers GW, SELECT2 Investigators) N Engl J Med 2023 Apr 06;388(14):1259-1271 PMID: 36762865 02/11/2023
20. Comparative Effectiveness of Anti-TNF in Combination With Low-Dose Methotrexate vs Anti-TNF Monotherapy in Pediatric Crohn's Disease: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial. Kappelman MD, Wohl DA, Herfarth HH, Firestine AM, Adler J, Ammoury RF, Aronow JE, Bass DM, Bass JA, Benkov K, Tobi CB, Boccieri ME, Boyle BM, Brinkman WB, Cabera JM, Chun K, Colletti RB, Dodds CM, Dorsey JM, Ebach DR, Entrena E, Forrest CB, Galanko JA, Grunow JE, Gulati AS, Ivanova A, Jester TW, Kaplan JL, Kugathasan S, Kusek ME, Leibowitz IH, Linville TM, Lipstein EA, Margolis PA, Minar P, Molle-Rios Z, Moses J, Olano KK, Osaba L, Palomo PJ, Pappa H, Park KT, Pashankar DS, Pitch L, Robinson M, Samson CM, Sandberg KC, Schuchard JR, Seid M, Shelly KA, Steiner SJ, Strople JA, Sullivan JS, Tung J, Wali P, Zikry M, Weinberger M, Saeed SA, Bousvaros A. Gastroenterology. 2023 Jul;165(1):149-161.e7. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2023.03.224. Epub 2023 Mar 31.PMID: 37004887
21. Perioperative nutrition in the setting of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Jonathan Wong, John Densmore, Julia Hilbrands, Abdul Elkadri, Jose Cabrera, Josh Noe, Jens Eickhoff, Praveen S Goday. Nutr Clin Pract. 2023 Jun 11. doi: 10.1002/ncp.11021. Online ahead of printPMID: 37302062. DOI: 10.1002/ncp.11021
22. Use, Durability, and Risks for Discontinuation of Initial and Subsequent Biologics in a Large Pediatric-Onset IBD Cohort. Jess L Kaplan, Chunyan Liu, Eileen C King, Julie A Bass, Ashish S Patel, Jeanne Tung, Shiran Chen, Trevor Lissoos, Ninfa Candela, Shehzad Saeed, Richard B Colletti; ImproveCareNow Network J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2023 May 1;76(5):566-575. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000003734. Epub 2023 Feb 19. PMID: 36804501. PMCID: PMC10097486. DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000003734
 
Books, Chapters, and Reviews
1. J. Cabrera, G. Subbarao, J. Croffie. "Diagnostic testing and management of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in children." Minerva Pediatrica 2012; 64:585-94.
 
Abstracts
1. Cabrera, JM; and Steiner, SJ. "A Young Boy with Hirschsprung's Disease and a Cerebral Migrational Disorder" Clinical vignette poster presentation at the NASPGHAN Annual meeting on 10/27/2007.
2. Cabrera, JM; Chiorean, M; and Steiner, SJ. "Transitional Care: Experiences and Expectations of Young People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease." Initial data was presented in poster format for DDW, 2008. Final data accepted for poster presentation at NASPGHAN annual meeting for 2011.
3. Larson-Nath, C; Cabrera JM. "Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Presenting with Vomiting and Duodenal Narrowing" Poster presentation at the NASPGHAN Annual Meeting, October 11, 2013.
4. Julia Fritz, MD; Cassandra Walia, RD; Jos Cabrera, MD. "Improving Nutritional Surveillance and Supplementation in Children with IBD." Poster presentation at the World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. October 6, 2016
5. Noe, Joshua; Cabrera, Jose; Gurram, Bhaskar; Werlin, Steve. " Mayo Endoscopic Subscore does not predict disease phenotype in pediatric ulcerative colitis patients." Poster presentation at DDW 2016.
6. Kapavarapu, PK; Dua, KS; Gregg, G; Cabrera, JM. " Endotherapy for Post-Pancreatic Fluid Collections." Poster presentation at NASPGHAN Annual Meeting on 11/02/2017.
7. McSorley, Brianna MD; Cabrera, JM. ": Vedolizumab in de novo Inflammatory Bowel Disease after Renal Transplant: A Case Report. Poster presentation at NASPGHAN Annual Meeting on 11/2021.
 
Database, Video, or Other Research/Clinical Contributions
1. Cabrera, JM; and Pappolla, M. "An Immunohistochemical Approach for Assessing the Effects of Statin Treatment on Beta-Amyloidogenesis in a Murine Model for Alzheimer's disease (AD)." Oral presentation for Medical Student Summer Research Day, USA College of Medicine (COM) on 08/2001. This project was recognized with the "Clyde C. Huggins Medical Research Award," and was invited for submission in the National Student Research Forum in Galveston, Texas.