Specialties | DIVISION OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION
Introduction
The Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at St. Louis
Children's Hospital provides comprehensive care for infants, children and
adolescents with gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic and nutritional
disorders. Its full-time staff is supported by extensive experience in
diagnostic and therapeutic services, and special training.
The Division conducts a well-funded and active basic and clinical research
program that studies disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, liver,
pancreas, and nutrition. Projects include studies of the pathogenesis of
biliary atresia, acute liver failure, application of decision analysis to
the diagnosis of neonatal liver disease, hepatic regeneration and
steatosis, gastrointestinal and nutritional manifestations of cystic
fibrosis, treatment and pathogenesis of pediatric inflammatory bowel
disease, bacterial colonization and persistence in mammalian hosts, the
etiology of childhood diarrhea, growth and migration of neurons and ganglia
into bowel during development, and natural history of functional symptom
complexes in children.
The Division also oversees an NIH-funded, three-year fellowship program
designed to educate and equip outstanding young physicians for academic
careers in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. The Division's goal is
to combine a sound understanding of the principles of clinical pediatric
gastroenterology and nutrition with the pursuit of excellence in
fundamental research so that fellows become excellent consultants, teachers
and independent researchers.
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Provide high-quality, comprehensive care for infants, children and
adolescents with common and complex gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic
and nutritional disorders. The Division is committed to enhancing our
understanding of these disorders through basic and clinical research
programs.
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Provide a supportive environment to train academic pediatric
gastroenterologists.
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Educate community physicians, families, pediatric house staff, and
medical students about gastrointestinal disorders.
Dr. Heuckeroth
was a Markey Trust Scholar, a recipient of the Young Investigator Award from
the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition,
the Miles and Shirley Fiterman Foundation Basic Sciences Research Award
of the American Gastroenterological Association, and recently won the
Glaxo Wellcome Institute of Digestive Health Research Award.
Dr. Keating
was the Murray Davidson Awardee of the Americana Academy of Pediatrics in
1997. He has also received the 2002 Distinguished Service Award of the
Washington University Medical Center Alumni Association, the 2004 Distinguished Service Award of the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, and the Washington University Alumni Association 2005 Distinguished Faculty Award.
Dr. Rothbaum
was awarded the Physician of the Year by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
of America in 1998, and the Goldstein Teach Award of the Washington
University School of Medicine in 2005.
Dr. Rudnick
received the American Digestive Health Foundation Research Scholar
Award (2000), Children's Digestive Health & Nutrition Foundation
Investigator Development Award (2001), was named a Scholar of the Child
Health Research Center of Excellence in Developmental Biology at
Washington University School of Medicine (2000), and recieved a March
of Dimes Basil O'Connor Award in 2004.
Dr. Palermo received the Howard Hughes Clinical Investigator Faculty Award in 2001.
Dr. Turmelle has been awarded an Advanced Hepatology Fellowship from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Conferences and Symposia
The Division organized and hosted the First International Symposium for
Schwachman's Disease.
Together with the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and the
American Liver Foundation, the Division sponsors annual educational
programs for families with children affected by inflammatory bowel disease
and pediatric liver disease respectively.
In conjunction with the Digestive Diseases Research Core Center
the Division sponsors a yearly conference on digestive diseases,
which includes local and invited speakers with expertise in the
topic for that year's conference, and invites three outside
speakers a year to give a lecture at the Gastroenterology Research
Conference.
Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Suite C
One Children's Place
St. Louis, Mo. 63110
(314) 454-6173 (Voice)
(314) 454-2412 (Fax)
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(888) 503-2237 (Toll-free)
(314) 454-6173 (Voice)
(314) 454-2412 (Fax)
(800) 678-4357 (Toll-free)
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Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Campus Box 8116
660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110-1093
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