Mercedes Martinez, MD
Locations and Appointments
CUIMC/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
ColumbiaDoctors - 300 Frank Burr Blvd
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office to verify that your insurance is accepted.
- AETNA
- Affinity Health Plan
- Amerigroup of New Jersey
- AmeriHealth of New Jersey
- Amida Care
- Capital District Physician Health Plan (CDPHP)
- CIGNA
- Consumer Health Network (CHN)
- Emblem/GHI
- Emblem/Hip
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Fidelis Care
- Healthfirst
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Local 1199
- Magnacare (National)
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- MVP Health Care
- QualCare
- Quality Health Management
- TRICARE
- UnitedHealthcare
- VNSNY CHOICE
- WellCare
- World Trade Center Health Plan
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
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
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
Endoscopy
Epstein-Barr Virus Infection
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
Failure to Thrive
Fatty Liver Disease, Non-Alcoholic
Gastrointestinal Bleeding
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
Internship: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Bronx, NY
Medical School: Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, Santiago De Cuba
Residency: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Bronx, NY
Languages
- Spanish
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
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
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
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
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
- Pediatrics
Languages Spoken
- Spanish