Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Sean Moore, MD, 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.
Not pictured: Barrett Barnes, Craig McKinney, Jon Medernach, Julee Sunny, and Carrie Cowardin
Administrative Team
Adriana McCray – Assistant
Tammy Mawyer – Procurement
Wendy Cline – Assistant
Address & Contact Number
Department of Pediatrics
P.O. Box 800386
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0386
Phone: 434-924-2457
Fax: 434-924-8798
Faculty and Staff
Carrie Cowardin, PhD
Stephen Borowitz, MD
Barrett Barnes, MD
Shelly Dean, NP
Frank W. DiPaola, MD
Esthermari Gonzalez, MD
Craig McKinney, MD
Jessica Murray, NP
Jeremy Middleton, MD
Sean Moore, MD, MS, Division Director
Eunice Odiase, MD
Sana Syed, MD, MS
Michele Johnston, RN, BSHS
Cindy Laughery, RN
Terry McGrath, RN, BSN
Hilary Paschall, RN, BSN