The Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (digestive disorders) specializes in evaluating and treating disorders that affect digestion and nutrition in infants and children. These disorders affect many different organs including the gastrointestinal (GI) tract (the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and the colon), and the liver, gallbladder and pancreas. All these organs are involved in absorbing or processing nutrition.
Together with a multidisciplinary team of nurse practitioners, registered nurses, registered dieticians and social workers, physicians provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services at our main campus and outpatient centers.
Ranked 8th in the nation by U.S.News & World Report for pediatric gastroenterology, Children's Memorial is only one of two hospitals in the Chicago metropolitan area that are ranked nationally among the Best Children's Hospitals.
We are also proud to be part of the Digestive Health Alliance Children's GI Research Network, a nationwide network of leading pediatric GI research centers focused on expanding research and understanding on painful and debilitating digestive conditions that impact children. For more information please visit the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders.
The team provides services related to the common and complex gastrointestinal disorders. Conditions treated include:
Where do we see patients?
Most evaluations take place at the hospital outpatient centers listed on the left.
When the child is especially ill, some of these evaluations and treatments can take place on the sixth floor at the main hospital. All of the procedures take place at the hospital either in the procedure suite or the operating room. The pediatric gastroenterologists who see patients in Westchester often perform procedures at that outpatient center.