William Bernal, MD, MPH

Title(s)Associate Professor, Pediatrics
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address550 16th. Street, #4140
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    University of South Florida, College of Public Health, Tampa, FLMPH2000Tropical and Communicable Disease
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, ILMD2004Medicine
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA2007Pediatrics Residency
    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA2010Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship

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    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. 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.

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    1. Biologic therapies for refractory juvenile dermatomyositis: five years of experience of the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance in North America. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2017 Jun 13; 15(1):50. 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, Ardalan K, Bernal W, Stoll ML, Lang B, Carrasco R, Agaiar C, Feller L, Bukulmez H, Vehe R, Kim H, Schmeling H, Gerstbacher D, Hoeltzel M, Eberhard B, Sundel R, Kim S, Huber AM, Patwardhan A, Pediatric Rheumatologist Collaborators. PMID: 28610606; PMCID: PMC5470177.
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    2. Brief report: alternative activation of laser-captured murine hemophagocytes. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2014 Jun; 66(6):1666-71. Canna SW, Costa-Reis P, Bernal WE, Chu N, Sullivan KE, Paessler ME, Behrens EM. PMID: 24470386; PMCID: PMC4365933.
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    3. Stress-induced changes in gene interactions in human cells. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Feb; 42(3):1757-71. Nayak RR, Bernal WE, Lee JW, Kearns MJ, Cheung VG. PMID: 24170811; PMCID: PMC3919594.
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    4. Defective actin accumulation impairs human natural killer cell function in patients with dedicator of cytokinesis 8 deficiency. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Mar; 131(3):840-8. 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 MH, Geha RS, Renner ED, Orange JS. PMID: 23380217; PMCID: PMC3646579.
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