Walter Edward Benkert Sipe
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Dr. Walter E. B. Sipe is a pediatrician and pediatric gastroenterologist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco, California, where he cares for children with gut-brain conditions including chronic pain and dysautonomia. He holds additional training in psychiatry and provides counseling to help patients manage complex medical issues. He is board certified in both pediatrics and psychiatry through the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, respectively. He has also been affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center.
His published research spans gastrointestinal pain, visceral hypersensitivity, autoimmune hepatitis, and the treatment of depression in pediatric populations. He has authored commentaries on depression screening in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease clinics and on psychotropic medications for pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders, and he has contributed research on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a first-line treatment for major depressive disorder. His work has appeared in journals including the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, the American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, and Mindfulness.
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- Commentary on "Depression Screening in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinics: Recommendations and a Toolkit for Implementation".
- A Preliminary Study: Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy versus Sertraline as First-line Treatments for Major Depressive Disorder.
- Commentary on "psychotropic medications for pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders".
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: theory and practice.
- Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 mediates protease activated receptor 2-induced sensitization of colonic afferent nerves and visceral hyperalgesia.
- Autoimmune hepatitis in children: diagnosis, pathology and treatment.
- Propylthiouracil-associated liver failure presenting as probable autoimmune hepatitis in a child with Graves' disease.
- The double-V urethral closure: a modification of Mustardé's operation for distal hypospadias.
- Operative treatment of distal hypospadias: review of 34 cases.
- Prostatectomy in the community hospital.
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