Pediatric Gastroenterology

About the General Gastroenterology Program

The General Gastroenterology Program within the Digestive Health Institute provides care to children with a broad range of digestive diseases. Our multidisciplinary team strives to deliver family-centered care and includes dedicated physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, dietitians and social workers.

Why choose Children’s Colorado for pediatric gastroenterology?

Children’s Colorado combines expertise in pediatric gastroenterology with advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies to provide outstanding care of children with digestive problems. Pediatric gastroenterologists from our hospital hold clinics in several locations across the front range of Colorado.

Specific conditions we treat

• Feeding and swallowing problems
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease
• Celiac disease
• Gastrointestinal infections
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Chronic abdominal pain
• Chronic diarrhea
• Constipation
• Nausea and vomiting
• Failure to thrive
• Pancreatic disease
• Intestinal motility disorders

Services offered

Clinical services:

• Primary consultative services, follow-up, and long-term management of GI, liver and nutritional disorders 
• Second opinions and evaluations
• Liver transplantation evaluation and management
• Adolescent obesity services
• Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Clinic
• Aerodigestive Program
• Colorado Center for Celiac Disease
• Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Disease Program
• Gastrointestinal Motility Program
• Home enteral and parenteral nutrition services
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program
• Intestinal Rehabilitation Program
• Nutritional counseling and management
• Pediatric Liver Center
• Polyposis Clinic

Procedure services:

• Breath hydrogen analyses
• Capsule video endoscopy
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography and pancreatography (ERCP)
• Esophageal pH/Impedance testing
• Fecal microbiota transplantation
• Gastrointestinal motility testing
• Liver biopsy
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and jejunostomy tube placement and management
• Stricture dilation and injection
• Unsedated transnasal esophagoscopy
• Upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy