25 of the Best Pediatric Gastroenterologists Near Me in Lanham, MD

Maria Oliva-Hemker is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Oliva-Hemker is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Viral Gastroenteritis, Crohn's Disease, Colitis, Gastrostomy, and Colonoscopy. Dr. Oliva-Hemker is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Oliva-Hemker is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Kenneth Ng is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and the Director of Endoscopy in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His professional interests include therapeutic endoscopy, endoscopic innovations, pancreatic diseases, biliary diseases, and esophageal disorders. Dr. Ng received his medical degree from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at Cohen Children's Medical Center and did his fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at Baylor College of Medicine. After fellowship, he was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Baylor College of Medicine, practicing at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. He joined Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in 2017. Dr. Ng has received awards for his research and clinical work, including the American Liver Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award and the Dr. George Ferry Outstanding GI Faculty Award from Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ng is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Childhood Pancreatitis, Chronic Pancreatitis, Acute Pancreatitis, Endoscopy, and Gastrostomy. Dr. Ng is board certified in American Osteopathic Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Ng is currently accepting new patients.

Vahe Badalyan, MD, is director of Children's National Celiac Disease Program and a gastroenterologist. He practices at the main hospital, Montgomery County and Friendship Heights locations, but appointments with him at Friendship Heights are for the Multidisciplinary Celiac Disease Clinic only. Dr. Badalyan is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Celiac Disease, Malabsorption, Familial Short Stature (FSS), and Idiopathic Short Stature (ISS). Dr. Badalyan is board certified in Pediatric Gastroenterology: American Board Of Pediatrics, 2015 and Pediatrics: American Board Of Pediatrics, 2010.

Douglas Mogul is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mogul is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Cholestasis, Alagille Syndrome, Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis Type 1, Biliary Atresia, and Liver Transplant.

Douglas Jacobstein is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Jacobstein is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Crohn's Disease, Viral Gastroenteritis, Colitis, and Endoscopy.

Runa Watkins is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Watkins is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Celiac Disease, Gastroschisis, Crohn's Disease, and Viral Gastroenteritis. Dr. Watkins is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatrics, 2011 and American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatric Gastroenterology, 2013. Dr. Watkins is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Sarah Lowry is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, MD. She specializes in diagnosis and treatment of digestive disorders. Her area of expertise is pediatric cystic fibrosis and feeding problems, among other conditions. She primarily sees patients virtually as part of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Primary VirtualCare Clinic, and is licensed in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. Dr. Lowry completed medical school at Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College. She later completed a residency at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children before going on to a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Her clinical expertise encompasses Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome and Cystic Fibrosis. Dr. Adamitis is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Adamitis is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Gihan Naguib is a pediatric gastroenterology specialist in Baltimore and Annapolis, caring for pediatric patients with liver diseases. Dr. Naguib earned her M.B.Ch.B. from Alexandria University Hospital. She completed residencies at the University of Alexandria and St Joseph's Regional Medical Center. She performed fellowships in pediatric gastroenterology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Graduate Program Affiliations Pediatrics - Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Her clinical expertise encompasses Enlarged Liver and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Dr. Naguib is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Naguib is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Shaija Kutty is a pediatric gastroenterologist in the division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Dr. Kutty has a special interest in functional gastrointestinal disorders including chronic abdominal pain, functional dyspepsia, and irritable bowel syndrome. She leads a multidisciplinary and integrative Gastro-Intestinal Functional Treatment (GIFT) clinic to help children with functional gastrointestinal disorders. She also takes care of patients with Inflammatory bowel disease and constipation. Dr. Kutty completed her pediatrics residency and pediatric gastroenterology fellowship from the University of Nebraska Medical Center where she was an Assistant Professor of pediatric gastroenterology for four years prior to joining Johns Hopkins. Selected Publications Kutty SS, Peng Q, Danford DA, Fletcher SE, Perry D, Talmon GA, Scott C, Kugler JD, Duncan KF, Quiros-Tejeira RE, Kutty S. Liver Adult-Pediatric-Congenital-Heart-Disease Dysfunction Study (LADS) Group. Increased Hepatic Stiffness as Consequence of High Hepatic Afterload in The Fontan Circulation: A Vascular Doppler And Elastography Study Hepatology. 2013 Jul 31. doi:10.1002/hep.26631 Kutty SS, Zhang M, Danford DA, Hasan R, Duncan KF, Kugler JD, Quiros-Tejeira RE, Kutty S. Hepatic stiffness in the bidirectional cavopulmonary circulation: The Liver Adult-Pediatric-Congenital-Heart-Disease Dysfunction Study group. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Sep 28 Andersen JB, Li XL, Judge CS, Zhou A, Jha BK, Shelby S, Zhou L, Silverman RH, Hassel BA. Oncogene. 2007 May 10;26(21):3081-8. Epub 2006 Nov 20. Role of 2-5A-dependent RNase-L in senescence and longevity. Castillo L, Prachuapthunyachart S, Hall M, Shelby S, Quiros-Tejeira RE, Vo HD. Antibiotic use in cirrhotic children with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: A retrospective study using pediatric health information system (PHIS) database. Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 Jul;98(29): e16505. doi: Increased Hepatic Stiffness in Young Adults After Biventricular Repair of Congenital Heart Disease Zhang J, Li L, Jani V, Cramer JW, Fletcher SE, Cedars AM, Danford DA, Kutty S, Kutty SS.Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 Oct 12:S0003-4975(20)31652-0. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.08.013. Online ahead of print.PMID: 33058822. Her clinical expertise encompasses Small Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth. Dr. Kutty is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Kutty is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Anthony Lawrence Guerrerio is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition and inflammatory bowel disease. He is the director of the Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic. Dr. Guerrerio received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in pediatrics and did a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins and then joined the faculty in 2009. His clinical practice focuses on eosinophilic intestinal disease (esophagitis, gastroenteritis and colitis) as well as inflammatory bowel disease—especially in the context of immunodeficiency. He also has a special interest in intestinal problems of those affected by Loeys-Dietz syndrome. His clinical expertise encompasses Crohn's Disease and Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Dr. Guerrerio is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Guerrerio is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Kevin Thomas Cesa is a pediatric gastroenterologist seeing patients at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore and Frederick Maryland. Dr. Cesa specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease and other gastroenterological issues in children. After completing his pediatric residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 2019, Dr. Cesa completed a pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition fellowship with UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. His clinical expertise encompasses Viral Gastroenteritis. Dr. Cesa is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Cesa is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Howard A. Kaders special interests include pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dr. Kader is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Fecal Impaction, Crohn's Disease, Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis, and Liver Transplant. Dr. Kader is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatric Gastroenterology, 1999. Dr. Kader is currently accepting new patients.

Sona Sehgal, MD, is a clinical professor of pediatrics and a board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist with more than 20 years of experience caring for infants, children and adolescents with complex digestive and feeding conditions. She has extensive experience providing second opinions for international families, including many patients from the Middle East. Her clinical focus includes children with swallowing difficulties (dysphagia), repaired tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF), feeding disorders, intestinal failure, and children dependent on gastrostomy tube (G-tube) feeds or total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Dr. Sehgal works closely with pulmonology, otolaryngology (ENT), speech and feeding therapists, and surgery to provide comprehensive, coordinated care for complex aerodigestive conditions. She is experienced in evaluating children who are dependent on long-term nutritional support and in developing safe, individualized plans to optimize growth and feeding. Dr. Sehgal has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in pediatric gastroenterology, with research focusing on pediatric acute pancreatitis, aerodigestive disorders, intestinal failure and short bowel syndrome, and optimization of biologic therapy in inflammatory bowel disease. She serves as faculty for the Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship Program at Children’s National and mentors future specialists. Publications Google Scholar ORCID PUBMED. Dr. Sehgal is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Childhood Pancreatitis, Acute Pancreatitis, Short Bowel Syndrome, and Gallstones. Dr. Sehgal is board certified in Pediatric Gastroenterology: American Board Of Pediatrics, 2007. Dr. Sehgal is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Ann O'Shea Scheimann is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric gastroenterology, nutrition and pediatric liver disease including cholestatic liver disease and fatty liver disease. Dr. Scheimann received her B.S. from the University of Dayton. She earned her M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and her M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins. She completed her internship and residency in pediatric medicine and a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at the Baylor College of Medicine. In 2000, she joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in pediatrics, where her research focuses on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity and Prader-Willi syndrome. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Scheimann was an assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. In 2005, she developed Weigh Smart, a comprehensive pediatric weight management program funded by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, and the University of Maryland. She currently serves as the chair of the Pediatric Nutrition Advisory Committee at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Dr. Scheimann serves on the editorial boards of Pediatrics and Therapeutics, World Journal of Gastroenterology and World Journal of Hepatology. She has received numerous awards and including a grant from the Mt. Washington Pediatric Foundation to start the Weigh Smart program. She has received research support from Agencies including the National Institutes of Health, Foundation for Prader-willi Research and Prader-willi Syndrome Association. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of the Study of Liver Disease, Obesity Society and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Her clinical expertise encompasses Prader-Willi Syndrome, Obesity, and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Dr. Scheimann is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Scheimann is currently accepting new patients.

Sara Nandolia is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Her clinical expertise encompasses Small Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth. Dr. Nandolia is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Nandolia is currently accepting new patients.

Seema Khan is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Khan is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Tracheoesophageal Fistula, Atresia of Small Intestine, Esophageal Atresia, and Esophageal Atresia Coloboma Talipes.

Cade Nylund is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Nylund is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Esophagitis, Infantile Pyloric Stenosis, Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Endoscopy.

Jennifer Hong is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hong is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Esophagitis, Crohn's Disease, and Encopresis. Dr. Hong is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatrics, 2017. Dr. Hong is currently accepting new patients.

Benjamin Caballero is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Caballero is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Obesity.

Colleen Hadigan is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Hadigan is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis, and Niemann-Pick Disease.

Samra Blanchard is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Blanchard is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Celiac Disease, Malabsorption, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Esophagitis. Dr. Blanchard is currently accepting new patients.

Susan Aucott is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist and a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Aucott is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Premature Infant, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Cerebral Hypoxia, and Retinopathy of Prematurity.

Steven Czinn is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Hanover, Maryland. Dr. Czinn is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Helicobacter Pylori Infection, Gastritis, Chronic Erosive Gastritis, and Esophagitis. Dr. Czinn is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatrics, 1985.

Atiye Aktay is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Her clinical expertise encompasses Lactose Intolerance, Crohn's Disease, Diarrhea, and Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Dr. Aktay is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatrics, 1997 and American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatric Gastroenterology, 2001. Dr. Aktay is currently accepting new patients.

Lina Calderon is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Her clinical expertise encompasses Crohn's Disease, Gastroschisis, Short Bowel Syndrome, and Childhood Volvulus. Dr. Calderon is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics, Inc. - Pediatric Gastroenterology, 2019 and American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatrics, 2016. Dr. Calderon is currently accepting new patients.