Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Gastroenterology and Nutrition

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Wesley has a fresh start on life after undergoing a bloodless liver transplant at Children's.

The Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition takes a comprehensive approach to caring for patients with gastrointestinal, liver and nutritional disorders. Clinical services include a complete nutrition support service and management of intestinal failure, and liver and intestinal transplantation.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles is ranked among the top hospitals in the nation for gastroenterology care on the U.S. News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals List.

Disorders treated include such complex gastrointestinal diseases as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, allergic enteropathy, celiac disease, pancreatitis, acute and chronic liver diseases, and intestinal failure and short bowel syndrome. We also treat children with digestive, liver or nutritional disorders that result from other diseases.

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Our clinical research projects focus on gastrointestinal disorders associated with autism, screening and diagnosis of celiac disease, treatment basic mechanisms of disease causation and diagnosis and management of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and acute and chronic childhood liver diseases.

The Division also participates in research related to liver and intestinal transplant, intestinal failure and childhood nutritional deficiencies, and is capable in participating in clinical drug trials applicable to our subspecialty patient population.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles is presently one of the fourteen pediatric centers in North America selected to be a Children's Liver Research Center.

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Among our staff are board-certified pediatric gastroenterologists, an enterostomal therapist, a nurse practitioner, a clinical nurse specialist, dietitians and various other personnel organized into multidisciplinary teams for gastroenterology, nutrition support, and liver and intestinal transplantation.

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Children's Hospital Los Angeles
4650 Sunset Blvd., MS #78
Los Angeles, CA 90027

323-361-2181

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Dr. Dan Thomas, Head of the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition 

OUR DIVISION CHIEF
Dan Thomas, MD

The Division is led by Dan Thomas, MD Along with overseeing the activities of the division, Dr. Thomas co-directs our Liver and Intestinal Transplant program.

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