Jacobo Santolaya, M.D. - Faculty Profile

Biography

Jacob Santolaya, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. His research focuses on clinical and quality improvement in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease and the effect of colonic enteroendocrine cells on host metabolism and microbiome.

Dr. Santolaya earned his medical degree at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and received advanced training through a pediatric gastroenterology fellowship at UT Southwestern. Dr. Santolaya joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2022.

He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.

Education

Medical School: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (2016)
Residency: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2019), Pediatrics
Fellowship: UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2022), Pediatric Gastroenterology

Publications

CAPTURE IBD: Advancing Precision Medicine in Pediatric IBD: Subedi S, Albenbergl LG, Bass JA, Bauman L, Chevalier R, Egberg M, Goyal A, Hoffenberg E, Huang J, Kelsen JR, Kugathasan S, Minar P, Niklinska-Schirtz BJ, Ouahed J, Perry CE, Rabizadeh S, Rosen MJ, Santolaya J, Sauer CG, Shapiro JM, Sifuentes-Domingue L, Sylvester F, Villarreal M, Weaver SA, Whaley KG, Ziring D, De Zoeten EF, Kahn SA Inflammatory bowel diseases 2026 Jan 32 188-190
Interaction between the gut microbiota and colonic enteroendocrine cells regulates host metabolism: Tan S, Santolaya JL, Wright TF, Liu Q, Fujikawa T, Chi S, Bergstrom CP, Lopez A, Chen Q, Vale G, McDonald JG, Schmidt A, Vo N, Kim J, Baniasadi H, Li L, Zhu G, He TC, Zhan X, Obata Y, Jin A, Jia D, Elmquist JK, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Burstein E Nature Metabolism 2024 Jun 6 1076-1091
Bioavailability of the tumor necrosis factor alpha/regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) biosystem inside the gestational sac during the pre-immune stages of embryo development: Santolaya JL, Schweer DS, Cardenas-Goicoechea J, Bukowski R, Santolaya-Forgas J Journal of Perinatal Medicine 2023 Sep 51 891-895
Enhancing Residents' Warmth in Greeting Caregivers: An Inpatient Intervention to Improve Family-Centered Communication: Bayer ND, Taylor A, Atabek Z, Santolaya JL, Bamat TW, Washington N Journal for Healthcare Quality 2021 May 43 183-193
Pediatric Residents’ Sense of Meaning in Their Work: Is This Value Related to Higher Specialty Satisfaction and Reduced Burnout?: Bayer ND, Taylor A, Fallon A, Wang H, Santolaya JL, Bamat TW, Washington N Academic Pediatrics 2021 Apr 21 557-563
Should we call you mom and dad? Caregiver preferences and pediatric physician and nurse manner in greetings: Bayer ND, Taylor A, Atabek Z, Santolaya J, Bamat TW, Washington N Hospital Pediatrics 2019 Dec 9 989-992
Association of histological chorioamnionitis and magnesium sulfate treatment in singleton and dichorionic twin pregnancies with preterm premature rupture of membranes: Preliminary observations: O'Brien JM, Santolaya JL, Palomares K, Blitzer D, Santolaya-Forgas J Journal of Perinatal Medicine 2018 Oct 46 839-844
The Microbiota and Transgenomic Networks: Potential Implications for Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Santolaya-Forgas J, Townsend R, Santolaya JL, Patel P, Herrera-Garcia G, Castracane VD Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy 2016 Jan 39 1-3
A pressing need for culturally relevant preconception programs for obese patients in the USA: O'Brien J, Santolaya JL, Townsend R, Matta P, Canterino J, Santolaya-Forgas J Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 2015 Jul 8 169-170
Risk factors for perinatal mortality in patients admitted to the hospital with the diagnosis of placental abruption: Atkinson AL, Santolaya-Forgas J, Blitzer DN, Santolaya JL, Matta P, Canterino J, Oyelese Y Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 2015 Mar 28 594-597