Ranked 16th in the nation, the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (Digestive disorders) specializes in evaluating and treating disorders that affect digestion and nutrition in infants and children. These disorders affect many different organs including the gastrointestinal (GI) tract (the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and the colon), and the liver, gallbladder and pancreas. All these organs are involved in absorbing or processing nutrition.
At Children's Memorial Hospital, our staff provides inpatient and outpatient comprehensive services at our main campus and our six satellite locations together with a multidisciplinary team of nurse practitioners, registered nurses, registered dieticians and social workers.
The Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition provides services related to the common and complex gastrointestinal disorders. Some of the conditions we treat include:
Where do we see patients?
Most of the evaluations take place in the outpatient centers at Children's Memorial Hospital, Children's Memorial at Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield), or at one of our outpatient facilities at Glenbrook, Westchester, Tinley Park, Northwest Community, and Lake Forest.
When the child is especially ill, some of these evaluations and treatments take place on the sixth floor at Children's Memorial Hospital. All of the procedures take place at the hospital either in the procedure suite or the operating room. The pediatric gastroenterologists who see patients at our Westchester site often perform procedures at that site.