Kimberly Newton, MD

Children's Hospital-San Diego and a Clinical Professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, completed her residency in Pediatrics at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Cornell, and fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Hasbro Children’s Hospital- Brown University. Dr. Newton also completed an advanced fellowship in Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Newton has worked to characterize the relationship between NAFLD and associated comorbidities in children. She has demonstrated that nearly 1/3 of children with NAFLD have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, which increases risk for more severe liver disease, particularly in girls. This adds to previously completed work that characterized the important comorbidity of hypertension in the pediatric NAFLD. Dr. Newton has also helped to broaden the understanding of the origins of NAFLD through the investigation of how early life may influence NAFLD risk. She was able to demonstrate that both high and low birth weight are risk factors for NAFLD, and are associated with different NAFLD histologic phenotypes. Dr. Newton currently serves as a co-investigator on several on-going studies aimed at learning more about pediatric NAFLD, its natural history, pathogenesis, associations, and treatment.