2025 Faculty


Bradley Barth, MD, MPH
Professor in the Department of Pediatrics
Division Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Children’s Medical Center Dallas
Dallas, TX

Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Nutrition
Medical Director, Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation
Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Nutrition
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Jose Garza, MD
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Medical Director
Neurogastroenterology and Motility
GI Care for Kids
Atlanta, GA

Praveen Goday, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Director of Feeding and
Nutrition Programs
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH

Girish Hiremath, MD, MPH
Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN

Jeffrey Hyams, MD
Division Head, Gastroenterology
Director, The Inflammatory Bowel
Disease Center
Director, The Infusion Center
The Mandell-Braunstein Family-Endowed Chair for Pediatric Inflammatory
Bowel Disease
Connecticut Children's Hospital
Hartford, CT

Judith Kelsen, MD
Program Director of the Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Sandra C. Kim, MD
Division Chief: Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Cleveland Clinic Children's
Cleveland, OH

Julie Khlevner, MD, AGAF
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center
Director, Comprehensive Neurogastroenterology and
Motility Center
Director, Pediatric Gastroenterology Clinical Trials
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
NewYork Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
New York, NY

Diana Lerner, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterologist,
Associate Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Edwin Liu, MD
Director, Colorado Center for
Celiac Disease
Taplin Endowed Chair for Celiac Disease
Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, CO

Peter L. Lu, MD, MS
Research Director, GI Motility Center, Division of Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Nutrition,
Department of Pediatrics,
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics,
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, OH

Martín G. Martín,
MD, MPP
Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Gastroenterology
and Nutrition
David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Victoria Martin, MD, MPH
Co-Director, GI Section, Food Allergy Center, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Associate Program Director, Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
Mass General for Children
Boston, MA

Maria R. Mascarenhas, MBBS
Section Chief, Nutrition, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Medical Director, Department of Clinical Nutrition
Director, Integrative Health Program
Attending Physician
Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia PA

Aliye Uc, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Radiation Oncology Division Director,
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology,
Pancreatology and Nutrition
Endowed Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology
Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
University of Iowa Health Care
Iowa City, IA