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Locations and Appointments
ColumbiaDoctors - 300 Frank Burr Blvd
CUIMC/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office directly to verify that your particular insurance is accepted.
About Mercedes Martinez, MD
Mercedes Martinez, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, the Medical Director of the Intestinal Transplant Program at the Center for Liver Disease and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, and the Medical Director, Pediatric Abdominal Organ Transplantation Transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian. She provides state-of-the-art care for children with a multitude of liver and intestinal issues, including children with liver and intestinal failure that require transplantation and for those with intestinal failure associated liver disease. Dr. Martinez is nationally and internationally recognized for her expertise in treating liver tumors and autoimmune liver disorders. Her research interests include liver biomarkers of operational tolerance and personalized immunosuppression, liver tumors in children, autoimmune liver diseases, metabolic disorders, nutritional deficiencies associated with liver diseases, and intestinal failure. In addition, she has been part of multi-center collaborative efforts to study the impact of autoimmune liver disorders in children and clinical trials of immunosuppression withdrawal.
Visit The Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at columbiasurgery.org/liver
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
- Pediatrics
Languages Spoken
- Spanish
Specialties & Expertise
- Abdominal Organ Transplantation
- Acute Liver Failure
- Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
- Autoimmune Liver Disorder
- Biliary Atresia
- Cholangitis
- Cholestatic Liver Disease
- Clinical Research
- Colonoscopy
- Cystic Fibrosis
- EGD
- Endoscopic Feeding Tube Placement
- Endoscopy
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infection
- Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
- Failure to Thrive
- Fatty Liver Disease, Non-Alcoholic
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Gastrointestinal ERCP
- Gastrointestinal Tumors
- Gastrostomy Tube Placement
- Hepatic Disorders
- Hepatitis
- Hepatobiliary Diseases
- Hepatobiliary Surgery
- Hepatoblastoma
- Hepatology
- Inborn Error of Metabolism
- Intestinal Atresia
- Intestinal Failure
- Intestinal Transplant
- Jaundice
- Liver Disease In Children
- Liver Fibrosis
- Liver Surgery
- Liver Transplant, Pediatric
- Liver Tumors
- Living Donor Transplantation
- Metabolic and Fatty Liver Disease
- Metabolism
- Pediatric Liver Cancer
- Pediatric Liver Disease-Acute
- Pediatric Liver Disease-Chronic
- Pediatric Liver Transplant
- Pediatric Short Bowel Syndrome
- Percutaneous Gastrostomy Tube Inser
- Portal Hypertension
- Primary Biliary Cholangitis
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
- Sclerotherapy
- Short Bowel Syndrome
- Upper Endoscopy
- Weight Management
Education
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Medical School: Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, Santiago De Cuba
- Internship: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Bronx, NY
- Residency: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Bronx, NY
Leadership, Titles & Positions
- Clinical Director, Human Studies Core, Columbia Center for Translation Immunology
- Medical Director, Adult and Pediatric Intestinal/Multivisceral Transplant Program, Center for Liver Disease and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, NYP
- Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at CUMC
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
Awards & Honors
- 2015-2016 Faculty Leadership Academy
- 2016-2022 New York Magazine Best Doctors
- 2018 Academy of Clinical Excellence at Columbia University (ACE)
- 2019-2022 Exceptional Women In Medicine