Board-certified physicians provide comprehensive services for the diagnosis and treatment of infants, children and adolescents with gastroenterological disorders. The LCH Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology is located in the Levine Children's Hospital Specialty Center.

Services provided and conditions diagnosed and treated include:

• Abdominal pain
• Celiac Disease
• Chronic liver disease
• Colic
• Constipation/Hirschsprung's disease
• Diarrhea
• Dyspepsia
• Encopresis
• Esophageal varices
• Failure to thrive
• Feeding disorders/swallow dysfunction
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease)
• Inflammatory bowel diseases, such as:
  • Crohn's Disease
  • Ulcerative Colitis
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Liver disease
• Malabsorption disorders
• Motility disorders (problems with movement of food through the gastrointestinal tract)
• Nausea/ Vomiting
• Pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
• Peptic ulcer disease
• Problems with food absorption
• Reflux and vomiting
• Retrieval of swallowed foreign bodies using the endoscope
• Short gut syndrome

Physicians:

Victor M. Pineiro, MD-Director
Ricardo A. Caicedo, MD  
Jason Dranove, MD
Vani V. Gopalareddy, MD
Christopher Branner, MD
W. Stokes Houck III, MD
James W. Sandberg. MD

Why Levine Children's Hospital?

• Board-certified pediatric gastroenterologists have clinical experience in the treatment of common and complex gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders