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 (stomach ache)
- Pediatric cirrhosis
- Pediatric colon polyps
- Pediatric colorectal cancer (CRC)
- Pediatric constipation
- Pediatric Crigler-Najjar syndrome
- Pediatric cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS)
- Pediatric diarrhea
- Pediatric dysphagia (swallowing disorder)
- Pediatric encopresis
- Pediatric esophageal stricture
- Pediatric esophageal varices
- Pediatric fecal incontinence
- Pediatric feeding disorder (PFD)
- Pediatric functional abdominal pain syndrome (FAPS)
- Pediatric gastroenteritis (stomache flu)
- 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 (IBS)
- Pediatric lactose intolerance
- Pediatric liver (hepatic) tumors
- Pediatric liver failure
- Pediatric malabsorption
- Pediatric metabolic liver disease
- Pediatric microscopic colitis (lymphocytic colitis or collagenous colitis)
- Pediatric nausea and vomiting
- Pediatric necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Pediatric peptic ulcer
- Pediatric rumination syndrome (merycism)
- Pediatric viral hepatitis
- Pediatric Wilson’s disease
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