Anna Ermarth,
MD, MS
Languages Spoken: English
Dr. Ermarth is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics working within the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology. She practices general gastroenterology and endoscopy for pediatric patients at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake and Riverton locations. Her residency and fellowship was completed at University of Utah/Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, and she earned her medical degree from University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas.
She is a provider in the Nutrition Center which gives comprehensive nutrition care. She has particular clinical interest in celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease. Given her general pediatrics training at the Teen Mom Clinic in South Salt Lake, she has experience in adolescent health, with interests in inflammatory bowel disease, functional chronic abdominal pain and disordered eating for these patients. She believes in understanding all medical, environmental and psychosocial elements of a patient that may contribute to patient symptoms or decreased quality of life.
She has research interests in endoscopic and clinical quality improvement, including overseeing a unique clinic of former NICU patients who qualify for early hospital discharge due to feeding disorders. She also teaches medical students, residents and fellows at the School of Medicine. She appreciates a safe, thoughtful approach to medicine and avoids excessive tests or procedures when clinically possible.
Clinical Locations
Primary Children's Hospital Outpatient Services at Riverton
801-213-3599
Specialties
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Associate Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Gastroenterology |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics) American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Gastroenterology) |
Dr. Ermarth is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics working within the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology. She practices general gastroenterology and endoscopy for pediatric patients at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake and Riverton locations. Her residency and fellowship was completed at University of Utah/Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, and she earned her medical degree from University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas.
She is a provider in the Nutrition Center which gives comprehensive nutrition care. She has particular clinical interest in celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease. Given her general pediatrics training at the Teen Mom Clinic in South Salt Lake, she has experience in adolescent health, with interests in inflammatory bowel disease, functional chronic abdominal pain and disordered eating for these patients. She believes in understanding all medical, environmental and psychosocial elements of a patient that may contribute to patient symptoms or decreased quality of life.
She has research interests in endoscopic and clinical quality improvement, including overseeing a unique clinic of former NICU patients who qualify for early hospital discharge due to feeding disorders. She also teaches medical students, residents and fellows at the School of Medicine. She appreciates a safe, thoughtful approach to medicine and avoids excessive tests or procedures when clinically possible.
Academic Locations
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Associate Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Gastroenterology |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics) American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Gastroenterology) |
Education History
| Graduate Training | University of Utah School of Medicine Clinical Investigation M.S., 2016 |
| Fellowship | University of Utah School of Medicine/Primary Children's Hospital Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellow, 2016 |
| Residency | University of Utah School of Medicine/Primary Children's Hospital Pediatrics Resident, 2013 |
| Professional Medical | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Medicine M.D., 2010 |
| Undergraduate | Texas A&M University Biomedical Science B.S., 2005 |
Selected Publications - Journal Articles
Journal Article
- Ermarth A, Ling CY (2021). Partial Enteral Discharge Programs for High-risk Infants. Neoreviews, 23(1), e13-e22.
- Jaramillo C, Jensen MK, McClain A, Stoddard G, Barnhart D, Ermarth A (2020). Clinical diagnostic predictive score for Meckel diverticulum. J Pediatr Surg.
- Ermarth A, Thomas D, Ling CY, Cardullo A, White BR (2020). Effective Tube Weaning and Predictive Clinical Characteristics of NICU Patients With Feeding Dysfunction.PubMed10/22/2019. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, 44(5), 920-927.
- White BR, Ermarth A, Thomas D, Arguinchona O, Presson AP, Ling CY (2019). Creation of a Standard Model for Tube Feeding at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, 44(3), 491-499.
- Johnson E, Ermarth A, Deneau M (2019). A Novel Care Model for Neonatal Intestinal Failure Patients Is Associated With Cost Savings and Improved Outcomes. Gastroenterology Res, 12(2), 93-95.
- Ermarth A, Bryce M, Woodward S, Stoddard G, Book L, Jensen MK (2017). Identification of Pediatric Patients With Celiac Disease Based on Serology and a Classification and Regression Tree Analysis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol, 15(3), 396-402.e2.
Review
- Petersen A, Jensen MK (2014). Acing the IBD Questions on the GI Board Exam: The Ultimate Crunch-time Resource (Editorial Book Review). [Review]. Pract Gastroenterol.
Book Chapter
- Rudolph, Abraham M, Kamei, Robert K, and Overby, Kim J (). "Feeding Difficulties in Infants and Children," Chapter 23. In Giardino, A. (Eds.), Rudolph's Fundamentals of Pediatrics (4th). New York: McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division.
Case Report
- Jaramillo C, Ermarth AK, Putnam AR, Deneau M (2019). Neonatal cholestasis and hepatosplenomegaly caused by congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type 1: A case report. World J Hepatol, 11(5), 477-482.
- Ermarth AK, Pohl J, Esty B, Sempler JK, Carey JC, OGorman MA (2016). Congenital Chylous Ascites and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type VI. ACG Case Rep J, 3(4), e186.
Letter
Abstract
- Ermarth A, Brinker K, Ostrander B (2020). "Feeding Characteristics of NICU Patients with Cramped Synchronized Movements," [Abstract].
- Brinker K, Ostrander B, Ermarth A (2020). " Feeding Difficulties and Dysphagia in Infants with Abnormal General Movements." Implementation of Early Detection and Intervention for Cerebral Palsy Conference, Salt Lake CIty, UT, USA. [Abstract].
- Johnson E, Deneau M, Ermarth A (08/14/2018). Earlier Discharge, Fewer Readmissions, and Multimillion Dollar Cost Savings in the NICU: A Novel Care Model for Intestinal Failure Patients. [Abstract]. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
- Ermarth A, White B, Thomas D, Jackson WD, Ling, CY (08/14/18). Effective Tube Weaning out of the NICU: How we Standardized Early Patient Discharge and Promoted Tube Weaning from Home [Abstract]. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
- Jaramillo C, Jensen, MK, McClain A, Ermarth A (08/14/2018). Development of a Clinical Diagnostic Predictive Score for Meckel Diverticulum [Abstract]. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
- Deneau M, Mutyala RK, Book L, Ermarth A, Guthery S, Harnsberger J, Jaramillo C, Jackson WD, Jensen MK, Kavan M, McClain A, OGorman M, Patel R, Pohl J, Robson J, Sandweiss D, Sutton T, Varier R, Maloney C (11/1/2017). How we stopped admitting children for bowel cleanouts [Abstract]. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 65(2), S144-145.
- White, B, Arguinchona, O, Bierer, R, Ermarth A, Ling, CY, Patel, S, Thomas, D, Yoder, B (05/08/2017). Creation of a Standard Model for Discharging Neonates on Tube-Feeds [Abstract]. Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 6-9, 2017.
- Jaramillo C, Mutyala R, Ermarth A, Jensen MK (October 2016). The Spectrum of Bleeding Meckel Diverticulum in a Tertiary Pediatric Care Center [Abstract]. World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Montreal, Canada.
- Mutyala R, Jaramillo C, Ermarth A, Weinheimer C, Jackson WD, Coombs S, Deneau M (10/06/2016). Early discharge of intestinal failure patients from the NICU: a pilot quality improvement initiative [Abstract]. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 63(S), S401.
- Ermarth AK, Deneau MR (2015). Clinical Characteristics of Very Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population-Based Cohort [poster presentation also given] [Abstract]. North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) Annual Meeting, #54.
- Petersen AK, Bryce M, Woodward S, Patel R, Jensen MK (2014). Diagnostic Performance and Application of tTG IgA antibodies in Pediatric Celiac Disease: A Population-based Analysis [poster presentation also given] [Abstract]. North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) Annual Meeting, #343.
Video/Film/CD/Web/Podcast
- Hirte, Kimberly, Ermarth A (2022). "Thickened Liquids and Modified Food Texture for Pediatric Dysphagia" Web resource for physicians and professionals section of Medical Home Portal, University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics. This section gives comprehensive overview of liquid thickener use and indications including the most up-to-date evidence-based medical literature references for this topic. Medical Home Portal. [Web]. University of Utah Department of Pediatrics: Medical Home Portal. Available: https://www.medicalhomeportal.org/clinical-practice/feeding-and-nutrition/feeding-and-swallowing-problems-in-children.
- Cardullo A, Ermarth A (2021). "Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease" comprehensive review chapter on the disease process, diagnostics, treatments and new therapies for inflammatory bowel disease, including evidence-based references for the most up-to-date information on this disease process. [Web]. University of Utah Department of Pediatrics: Medical Home Portal. Available: https://www.medicalhomeportal.org/diagnoses-and-conditions/inflammatory-bowel-disease.
- Goldman-Luthy J, Expert Reviewer A Ermarth, MD, MS (2020). "Feeding Tubes and Gastrostomies." Web resource for physicians and professionals section of Medical Home Portal, University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics. This section gives comprehensive overview of feeding tube types and indications including the most up-to-date evidence-based medical literature references for this topic. [Web]. Medical Home Portal.
- Ermarth A, Jackson, WD (2020). "Celiac Disease" Medical Home Portal, University of Utah Department of Pediatrics. Published on the Medical Home Portal page for physicians & providers education. Information on the disease process, diagnostics, treatments and new therapies for celiac disease, including evidence-based references for the most up-to-date information on this disease process. [Web]. Medical Home Portal.
- Deneau, M, Jaramillo, C, Ermarth, A (02/22/2017). El estreñimiento en los niños: un problema común (Spanish version of: constipation in children: a very common problem) [Video]. Salt Lake City, UT: Intermountain Healthcare.
- Deneau, M, Mutyala, R, Ermarth, A (01/01/2017). Constipation in Children: A Very Common Problem. [Video]. Salt Lake City, UT: Intermountain Healthcare. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNagQup0Upg.
Global Impact
Selected Provider Publications
Abstract
Jaramillo C, Mutyala R, Ermarth A, Jensen MK (October 2016). The Spectrum of Bleeding Meckel Diverticulum in a Tertiary Pediatric Care Center [Abstract]. World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Montreal, Canada.
Global Impact: Canada, Europe, North America, South America.