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Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Research
Gastroenterologists and hepatologists at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital are involved in pioneering basic science and clinical studies.
The Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition is actively involved in research in the following areas:
- optimal management of intravenous nutrition;
- dietary, medical and exercise-based programs to prevent high cholesterol and obesity in children;
- electrogastrography, a new non-invasive method to diagnose neuromuscular abnormalities affecting the stomach and giving rise to symptoms of abdominal pain, nausea, anorexia and vomiting;
- cutting-edge clinical trials on new drugs for chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C in children;
- clinical trials to improve the management of pediatric patients with liver failure and those with life-threatening illness requiring liver and/or intestinal transplantation;
- pediatric preventive cardiology and heart health education for pre-school and school-age children;
- laboratory research that is seeking to develop yeast as a model genetic system to study human lipid metabolism.
The division also is involved in research programs funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These various programs are focusing on nutrition, cholesterol control, viral hepatitis, liver and small bowel transplantation, and obesity prevention. NIH-funded programs also include basic science research into the genetic control of fat metabolism and into understanding the development - from fetal life to maturity - of the nervous system that controls the entire intestine.
