SoniaKMichailMD

Pediatric Gastroenterology • Long Beach, CA

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Office
1760 Termino Ave
Ste 300
Long Beach, CA 90804
Phone+1 562-933-3009

Fax+1 562-933-6922
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Education & Training

University of Nebraska Medical Center College of MedicineFellowship, Pediatric Gastroenterology, 1994 - 1997
Sparrow HospitalResidency, Pediatrics, 1991 - 1994
Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State UniversityResidency, Family Medicine, 1990 - 1991
Ain Shams University Faculty of MedicineClass of 1988

Certifications & Licensure

OH State Medical License 1997 - 2026
CA State Medical License 2007 - 2025
MI State Medical License 1993 - 1997
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Gastroenterology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow (AGAF) American Gastroenterological Association, 2010

Clinical Trials

A Prospective Database of Infants With Cholestasis Start of enrollment: 2004 Apr 21
Recruiting
Biliary Atresia Study in Infants and Children Start of enrollment: 2006 May 16
Recruiting
Longitudinal Study of Genetic Causes of Intrahepatic Cholestasis (LOGIC) Start of enrollment: 2007 Nov 30
Recruiting
Longitudinal Study of Mitochondrial Hepatopathies Start of enrollment: 2010 Aug 18
Recruiting
Stool Transplant in Pediatric Patients With Recurring C. Difficile Infection Start of enrollment: 2013 Oct 01
Completed
Phase 2
The Gut-Brain Study Start of enrollment: 2019 Aug 15
Active, not recruiting
Phase 1
The Use of Butyrate Therapy in Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Start of enrollment: 2022 Jun 29
Recruiting
Phase 1
Roles: Contact
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Short-Chain Fatty Acid Levels after Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Pediatric Cohort with RecurrentInfection.
Alison T Jess, George Hany Eskander, My H Vu, Sonia Michail> ;Metabolites. 2023 Sep 27
Differences in gut microbiota and fecal bile acids between Caucasian and Hispanic children and young adults with ulcerative colitis.
Lara Aboud Syriani, Riddhi Parsana, Ramón A Durazo-Arvizu, Sonia Michail> ;Physiological Reports. 2023 Jun 1
4 citations
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Clostridioides difficile Infection in Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients.
Katie R Conover, Imad Absah, Sonia Ballal, David Brumbaugh, Stanley Cho, Maria C Cardenas, Elizabeth Doby Knackstedt, Alka Goyal, M Kyle Jensen, Jess L Kaplan, Richard...> ;Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2023 Apr 1
15 citations
16S rRNA and metagenomic shotgun sequencing data revealed consistent patterns of gut microbiome signature in pediatric ulcerative colitis.
Wenxuan Zuo, Beibei Wang, Xin Bai, Yihui Luan, Yingying Fan, Sonia Michail, Fengzhu Sun> ;Scientific Reports. 2022 Apr 19
11 citations
Metagenomic Analyses of Multiple Gut Datasets Revealed the Association of Phage Signatures in Colorectal Cancer.
Wenxuan Zuo, Sonia Michail, Fengzhu Sun> ;Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 2022 Jan 1
3 citations
Efficacy and Outcomes of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Maribeth R Nicholson, Erin Alexander, Sonia Arora Ballal, Zev Davidovics, Michael Docktor, Michael Dole, Jonathan Gisser, Alka Goyal, Suchitra K. Hourigan, M. Kyle Jen...> ;Journal of Crohn's & Colitis. 2021 Nov 12
6 citations
Decreased secondary faecal bile acids in children with ulcerative colitis and Clostridioides difficile infection
Sarah Rotondo-Trivette, Beibei Wang, Christopher P. Gayer, Riddhi Parsana, Yihui Luan, Fengzhu Sun, Sonia Michail> ;Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 2021 Jul 4
4 citations
Reduced fecal short-chain fatty acids in hispanic children with ulcerative colitis.
Sarah Rotondo-Trivette, Beibei Wang, Yihui Luan, Oliver Fiehn, Fengzhu Sun, Sonia Michail> ;Physiological Reports. 2021 Jul 1
5 citations
Longitudinal Outcomes in Young Patients with Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency with Native Liver Reveal that Neonatal Cholestasis is a Poor Predictor of Future Portal Hyp...
Jeffrey Teckman, Philip J. Rosenthal, Kieran Hawthorne, Cathie Spino, Lee M. Bass, Karen F. Murray, Nanda Kerkar, John C. Magee, Saul J. Karpen, James E. Heubi, Jean P...> ;The Journal of Pediatrics. 2020 Dec 1
3 citations
Chronic diarrhea.
Christopher Chu, Sarah Rotondo-Trivette, Sonia Michail> ;Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care. 2020 Aug 1
Commentary: Update on disorders of the gastrointestinal tract in children
David J. Nusbaum, Sonia Michail> ;Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care. 2020 May 1
14 citations
Rebaudioside affords hepatoprotection ameliorating sugar sweetened beverage- induced nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
Dong Xi, Jashdeep Bhattacharjee, Rosa Maria Salazar-Gonzalez, Soyoung Park, Alice Jang, Mikako Warren, Russell J. Merritt, Sonia Michail, Sebastien G. Bouret, Rohit Kohli> ;Scientific Reports. 2020 Apr 21
62 citations
Efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Clostridium difficile Infection in Children.
Maribeth R Nicholson, Paul Mitchell, Erin Alexander, Sonia Arora Ballal, Mark Bartlett, Penny Becker, Zev Davidovics, Michael Docktor, Michael Dole, Grace Felix, Jonat...> ;Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2020 Mar 1
2 citations
Fecal microbiota transplantation in children does not significantly alter body mass index
Dong Xi, Sonia Michail> ;Translational Pediatrics. 2019 Dec 1
3 citations
Correction to: MicroPro: using metagenomic unmapped reads to provide insights into human microbiota and disease associations.
Zifan Zhu, Jie Ren, Sonia Michail, Fengzhu Sun> ;Genome Biology. 2019 Oct 22
22 citations
MicroPro: using metagenomic unmapped reads to provide insights into human microbiota and disease associations
Zifan Zhu, Jie Ren, Sonia Michail, Fengzhu Sun> ;Genome Biology. 2019 Aug 6
64 citations
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection and Other Conditions in Children: A Joint Position Paper From the North American Society...
Zev Davidovics, Sonia Michail, Maribeth R Nicholson, Larry K. Kociolek, Nikhil Pai, Richard Hansen, Tobias Schwerd, Aldo Maspons, Raanan Shamir, Hania Szajewska, Nikhi...> ;Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2019 Jan 1
55 citations
Gut microbial and metabolomic profiles after fecal microbiota transplantation in pediatric ulcerative colitis patients.
David J. Nusbaum, Fengzhu Sun, Jie Ren, Zifan Zhu, Natalie Ramsy, Nicholas Pervolarakis, Sachin Kunde, Whitney England, Bei Gao, Oliver Fiehn, Sonia Michail, Katrine W...> ;FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2018 Sep 1
2 citations
Fecal Microbial Transplant In Children With Ulcerative Colitis: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study: Retracted.
Sonia Michail> ;Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2017 Oct 1
30 citations
Baseline Analysis of a Young α-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency Liver Disease Cohort Reveals Frequent Portal Hypertension
Jeffrey Teckman, Philip J. Rosenthal, Robert Abel, Lee M. Bass, Sonia Michail, Karen F. Murray, David A. Rudnick, Daniel W. Thomas, Cathie Spino, Ronen Arnon, Paula M....> ;Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2015 Jul 23
207 citations
Altered gut microbial energy and metabolism in children with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Sonia Michail, Malinda Lin, Mark R. Frey, Rob Fanter, Oleg Paliy, Brian Hilbush, Nicholas V. Reo> ;FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2015 Feb 1
54 citations
The Networks of Human Gut Microbe–Metabolite Associations are Different between Health and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Vijay Shankar, Daniel C. Homer, Laura Rigsbee, Harry J. Khamis, Sonia Michail, Michael L. Raymer, Nicholas V. Reo, Oleg Paliy> ;The ISME Journal. 2015 Jan 30
57 citations
Medical status of 219 children with biliary atresia surviving long-term with their native livers: results from a North American multicenter consortium.
Vicky L. Ng, Barbara H. Haber, John C. Magee, Alexander Miethke, Karen F. Murray, Sonia Michail, Saul J. Karpen, Nanda Kerkar, Jean P. Molleston, Rene Romero, Philip J...> ;The Journal of Pediatrics. 2014 Sep 1
20 citations
Genetic variants associated with Crohn's disease
Sonia Michail, Gilberto Bultron, R. William DePaolo> ;The Application of Clinical Genetics. 2013 Jul 16
200 citations
Alterations in the gut microbiome of children with severe ulcerative colitis.
Sonia Michail, Matthew D. Durbin, Dan Turner, Anne M. Griffiths, David R. Mack, Jeffrey S. Hyams, Neal Leleiko, Harshavardhan Kenche, Adrienne Stolfi, Eytan Wine> ;Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 2012 Oct 1
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Press Mentions

Improving Disease Monitoring for Hispanic Children with IBDFebruary 20th, 2023
Can Butyrate Help Hispanic Children with Ulcerative Colitis?November 1st, 2022
Addendum for: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection and Other Conditions in Children: A Joint Position Paper from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and the Euro...March 22nd, 2020
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