Children’s Physician Group—Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Our team provides care to children and teens with a wide range of GI, liver and nutritional conditions, such as:

• Abdominal pain
• Acute liver failure
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Biliary atresia
• Celiac disease
• Complex nutritional problems
• Crohn’s disease
• Diarrhea and constipation
• Dyslipidemias
• Eating disorders
• Eosinophilic esophagitis
• Feeding difficulties
• Food allergies that affect the GI tract
• Gastroenteritis
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
• Gastrointestinal bleeding

• Helicobacter pylori infections
• Hepatitis
• Hypertension
• Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
• Neonatal cholesostasis
• Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
• Obesity
• Pancreatitis
• Portal hypertension
• Rare metabolic diseases
• Sclerosing cholangitis
• Short bowel syndrome
• Ulcerative colitis
• Vomiting
• Wilson disease

Comprehensive services and treatments

Children’s Physician Group offers comprehensive services, including evaluation, diagnosis, management and treatment for children with a variety of disorders.

Services and treatments offered include:

• Anorectal manometry
• Biologic medicine infusions
• Breath hydrogen analysis to detect sugar malabsorption
• Colonoscopy/sigmoidoscopy
• Esophageal band ligation
• Esophageal manometry/impedance-pH monitoring
• Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
• Nutrition support services
• Percutaneous gastrostomy tube placement
• Video capsule endoscopy (VCE)

A wide range of programs and clinics

Our team also participates in the following multidisciplinary programs and clinics:

• Aerodigestive Center: This center offers a multidisciplinary approach to evaluate and treat children with disorders involving the upper digestive tract, airway and respiratory and pulmonary systems.
• Eosiniphillic Esophagitis Clinic: This clinic offers comprehensive services to children and young adults with EoE disease and allergic gastrointestinal disorders.
• IBD Program: We offer some of the country’s best treatments for children with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
• IBD Second Opinion Program: Our nationally recognized IBD experts offer second opinion consults for children with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Our doctors treat children of all ages and are actively involved in IBD education and research.
• Intestinal Rehabilitation Program: This program offers care to children with intestinal failure and short bowel syndrome. Our team provides comprehensive care—from medical to nutritional to surgical management.
• Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Clinic: This clinic is dedicated to treating children with NAFLD, the most common liver disease in children.

Innovative research

In conjunction with Emory University School of Medicine, our team is committed to excellence and innovation in pediatric research. We are devoted to developing new and better preventive, diagnostic services and treatments through research. We are active in a variety of clinical research projects, with an emphasis on studies of IBD, fatty liver disease, obesity, acute liver failure, liver transplantation and esophageal reflux.

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Why choose Children's Physician Group?

Children's Physician Group is home to one of the leading pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology practices in the Southeast. Combining the latest proven technology and research with a caring, child-friendly approach, makes Children's a top choice for the treatment of common and complex GI, liver and nutritional conditions.

Gastroenterologists

• John-Paul Berauer, MD, Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation Program
• A. Jay Freeman, MD, MSc, Director, Advanced Pancreatic Care Program; Director of Digestive Health, Cystic Fibrosis Program
• Patrice G Kruszewski, DO
• Subramaniam Kugathasan, MD, Scientific Director, Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Barbara O McElhanon, MD, Medical Director, Feeding Disorders Program
• Cary G Sauer, MD, Medical Director, Endoscopy Services
• Bess T Schoen, MD, Medical Director, Improve Care Now
• Dellys M Soler-Rodriguez, MD
• Gayathri J Tenjarla, MD

Hepatologists

• John-Paul Berauer, MD, Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation Program
• A. Jay Freeman, MD, MSc
• Nitika A Gupta, MD, Director, Adolescent Transplant Program
• Saul J Karpen, MD, PhD, Division Chief, Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Biomedical Chair
• Rene Romero, MD, Joseph H. Moss Chair, Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation; Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program; Clinical Director, Pediatric Hepatology; Medical Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation Program
• Dellys M Soler-Rodriguez, MD
• Miriam Vos, MD, MS

Advanced endscopist

• Field F Willingham, MD, Medical Director, Therapeutic Endoscopy and ERCP

Advanced practice providers

• Michelle Dinser, CPNP
• Christopher Fritzen, PA
• Kristine Lowe, PA
• Amanda Lutin, CPNP
• Lauren Mullen, CPNP
• Christine Rambo-Martin, CPNP
• Jessica Buzenski, PhD
• Gloria Chiang, PhD
• Emily Garai, PhD

Psychologists

• Jessica Buzenski, PhD, Gastroenterology
• Gloria Chiang, PhD, Hepatology
• Emily Garai, PhD, Hepatology
• Bonney Reed-Knight, PhD, Gastroenterology

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Telemedicine

The expertise of Children’s pediatric gastroenterologists is available to patients and healthcare providers through telemedicine. An easy-to-use service, telemedicine offers patients and providers remote consultations, evaluations and training using live video.

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Our intestinal rehabilitation clinic is held at Emory Children’s Center Building, while general gastroenterology clinics are held at our other neighborhood locations. ERCP, endoscopy and surgical procedures are performed at Egleston hospital.