Isabel Cristina Rojas Santamaria, MD
- Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
- Locations (3)
Biography
Isabel C. Rojas Santamaria, M.D., is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Health℠ and an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Rojas earned her medical degree at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia, in 1994. She completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma, and then received advanced training through a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at UT Southwestern. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Colegio Mayor/Nuestra Senora del Rosario (1994)
- Graduate and Post-Graduate Education
- Fundacion Universitaria De Ciencias De La Salud (1996)
- Residency
- University of Oklahoma College of Medicine -Tulsa (2008), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2012), Pediatric GI/Nutrition
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics-Pediatric Gastroenterology
- American Board of Pediatrics
Conditions Treated
- Colic in babies
- Dubin-Johnson syndrome in children
- Failure to thrive (FTT) in children
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Juvenile hemochromatosis
- Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)
- Pediatric abdominal migraines
- Pediatric achalasia
- Pediatric Alagille syndrome (ALGS)
- Pediatric alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT)
- Pediatric ascites
- Pediatric biliary atresia
- Pediatric celiac disease
- Pediatric chronic abdominal pain
- Pediatric cirrhosis
- Pediatric colon polyps
- Pediatric colorectal cancer
- Pediatric constipation
- Pediatric Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- Pediatric cyclic vomiting syndrome
- Pediatric diarrhea
- Pediatric dysphagia
- Pediatric encopresis
- Pediatric esophageal stricture
- Pediatric esophageal varices
- Pediatric fecal incontinence
- Pediatric feeding disorder
- Pediatric functional abdominal pain syndrome
- Pediatric gastroenteritis
- Pediatric gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Pediatric gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
- Pediatric Gilbert’s syndrome
- Pediatric glycogen storage disease
- Pediatric H. pylori infection
- Pediatric hepatitis A
- Pediatric hepatitis B
- Pediatric hepatitis C
- Pediatric intrahepatic cholestasis liver disease
- Pediatric irritable bowel syndrome
- Pediatric lactose intolerance
- Pediatric liver (hepatic) tumors
- Pediatric liver failure
- Pediatric malabsorption
- Pediatric metabolic liver disease
- Pediatric microscopic colitis
- Pediatric nausea and vomiting
- Pediatric necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Pediatric peptic ulcer
- Pediatric rumination syndrome
- Pediatric Wilson’s disease
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