Rate My Professor Sabina Ali

Sabina Ali, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, affiliated with the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. She serves as Medical Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and Co-Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology there. Ali earned her MD from Sind Medical College, University of Karachi, Pakistan, in 1999. She completed her pediatrics residency at the University of South Alabama in 2005 and her fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2008. Board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology, she has provided care for children with gastrointestinal conditions in the East Bay since 2008, performing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures such as colonoscopies.

Ali's research specializations encompass pediatric inflammatory bowel disease, nutrition, quality improvement initiatives, liver disease, intestinal ultrasound, and telemedicine applications in pediatric IBD. She participates in multicenter collaborations like the ImproveCareNow network and serves on committees for the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, including the IBD Committee. Her contributions include position papers on anemia in children with IBD (Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 2020) and hepatic complications associated with IBD (2017). Key publications feature "Travel Time to Treating Center Is Associated With Diagnostic Delay in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease" (Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2025), "Generative AI: Potential and Pitfalls in Academic Publishing" (Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 2023), "Experience Using Ustekinumab in Pediatric Patients With Medically Refractory Crohn Disease" (2021), and "Rapid Infliximab Infusion in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease" (Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2017). Ali has received honors such as the UCSF School of Medicine Dean's Office BCH Oakland Leadership Development Grant (2021), Medical Endoscopy Award "Doc that Rock" from John Muir Hospital (2014), Trinkle-Banowsky Award from the Texas Transplantation Society (2007), and Robert O. Harris, III Award for Outstanding Pediatric Resident from the University of South Alabama (2004). Her efforts focus on personalizing treatments to enhance remission rates and quality of life for pediatric patients with acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases.