The division is staffed by board-certified physicians who provide
consultation and treatment of patients at:

• Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE
• the Jefferson/duPont, Children’s Health Program in Philadelphia
• Bryn Mawr Hospital in Bryn Mawr, PA
  

Our services are enhanced by an integrated cooperative program that includes nutritionists, family services, and psychologists.

Comprehensive outpatient and inpatient services are available for the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of routine and complex gastroenterologic disorders.

Our services include:

• endoscopy/colonoscopy with biopsies
• pill endoscopy
• impedance probe studies
• intestinal manometry
• breath hydrogen testing
• esophageal dilation
• banding and sclerotherapy
• foreign body removal
• gastrostomy tube placements
• liver biopsies

Accepting one to two fellows per year, our division has had an established pediatric gastroenterology fellowship program since 2001. Well trained in all procedures described above, our fellows have gone on to join academic faculties throughout the country.

Our experienced, well-qualified, and enthusiastic group of research scientists,
research assistants, and technicians are currently focused on:

• tracheal and middle ear fluid pepsin in the evaluation of GERD in extraesophageal GERD
• celiac disease
• identification of serum macrolipase, macroamylase, and gastric lipase
• pancreatic insufficiency (retrospective review of pancreatic stimulation data)
• ghrelin and obestatin in serum and gastric biopsies in children with failure to thrive and obesity
• eosinophilic esophagitis (clinical trials and assessment of the utility
  of serum and stool ECP in follow-up)
• inflammatory bowel disease/ImproveCareNow Collaborative
• drug-induced liver injury
• liver and obesity
• studies in pediatric liver transplantation