Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition

Jeremy P Middleton, MD, Associate Professor, Division Director

Our children’s gastroenterology and GI surgery care has been ranked among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Our children’s digestive care experts can offer your child highly specialized treatments at Virginia’s #1 children’s hospital. We’re thankful we can provide this world-class care — because your kids mean the world to us.

Our division provides services for children with intestinal, liver, and nutritional disorders including but not limited to the following:

• Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis
• Acute and chronic hepatitis, jaundice, metabolic liver disease
• Short bowel syndrome, chronic diarrhea
• Chronic and recurrent abdominal pain
• Malnutrition, growth failure
• Eosinophilic Esophagitis
• Gastroesophageal reflux, recurrent vomiting
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Chronic constipation, encopresis
• Intestinal bleeding, ulcer disease
• Feeding and Swallowing disorders
• Allergic Gastroenteropathies

Members of our division regularly perform diagnostic upper and lower endoscopy, colonoscopy with polypectomy, esophageal variceal banding and sclerotherapy, upper and lower endoscopic balloon dilatation, video capsule endoscopy, and ambulatory pH/impedance studies.

Top (1st) Row: Norbert Donias 3rd year Fellow MD, Seth Morrison MD; 2nd Row: Therese McGrath RNCC, Barrett Barnes MD, Steve Borowitz MD, Frank DiPaola MD, Eunice Odiase MD, Clair Williams Scribe, Jeremy Middleton MD; 3rd Row: Ashley Christmas Social Worker, Caitlain McIntosh RNCC, Nicole Plowman NP, Jessica Murray NP, Olivia Obertello RD, Shelly Dean DNP; 4th Row: Sara Al Dogom 1st year Fellow MD, Sarah Fitzgerald CCMA, Tegan Medico RD, Sidney Keane RD, Theresa Guard RNCC, Alex Biller MD; Bottom (5th) Row: Samuel “Fisher” Syed Lab (no longer here), Michele Johnston RNCC, Julee Sunny MD, Natalia Sumner RNCC; Not pictured, Craig McKinney, MD