Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Dr. Barbara S. Kirschner, MD
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Barbara Kirschner practices Pediatric Gastroenterology. She received 5 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "Chicago Mag - Children's Health", "Super Doctor" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Dr. Barbara S. Kirschner is a published doctor and has 77 publications published. The lastest was: 'Differences in the management of inflammatory bowel disease in children and adolescents compared to adults.'
Publications
- Detecting Microbial Dysbiosis Associated with Pediatric Crohn Disease Despite the High Variability of the Gut Microbiota.
- Characterization of Genetic Loci That Affect Susceptibility to Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in African Americans.
- Increased effectiveness of early therapy with anti-tumor necrosis factor-α vs an immunomodulator in children with Crohn's Disease.
- Thalidomide Use and Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with Crohn's Disease Refractory to Infliximab and Adalimumab.
- Incidence of stricturing and penetrating complications of Crohn's Disease diagnosed in pediatric patients.
- Folate concentrations in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Development of extraintestinal manifestations in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Inflammatory bowel Disease in African American children compared with other racial/ethnic groups in a multicenter registry.
- Growth hormone treatment for growth failure in pediatric patients with Crohn's Disease.
- Presentation and Disease course in early- compared to later-onset pediatric Crohn's Disease.
- Reduced intracellular T-helper 1 interferon-gamma in blood of newly diagnosed children with Crohn's Disease and age-related changes in Th1/Th2 cytokine profiles.
- Measuring quality of life in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel Disease: psychometric and clinical characteristics.
- Gender differences in presentation and course of Disease in pediatric patients with Crohn Disease.
- Effect of long-term low-dose prednisone on height velocity and Disease activity in pediatric and adolescent patients with Crohn Disease.
- Timing infliximab therapy in pediatric Crohn's Disease.
- Massive Intestinal bleeding in a child with superior mesenteric artery aneurysm and gastroIntestinal tuberculosis.
- Risk factors for initial surgery in pediatric patients with Crohn's Disease.
- Workshop report: prevention of postoperative recurrence in Crohn's Disease.
- Premedication and infusion reactions with infliximab: results from a pediatric inflammatory bowel Disease consortium.
- Children with early-onset inflammatory bowel Disease (IBD): analysis of a pediatric IBD consortium registry.
- Research agenda for pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition: chronic inflammatory bowel Disease. Report of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastro...
- Defect in fatty acid oxidation: laboratory and pathologic findings in a patient.
- Nutritional supplementation and growth restoration in juvenile Crohn's Disease: a new approach.
- Isolated granulomatous gastritis in an adolescent.
- Chronic bullous dermatosis of childhood.
- An evaluation of trace metals, vitamins, and taste function in anorexia nervosa.
- Letter: IgA deficiency and recurrent pneumonia in the Schwartz-jampel syndrome.
- Laryngeal Obstruction in children sarcoidosis.
- Menetrier's Disease associated with formula protein allergy and small intestinal injury in an infant.
- Molecular analysis of the fructose transporter gene (GLUT5) in isolated fructose malabsorption.
- Secondary amyloidosis in Crohn's Disease of childhood.
- Malignancy and aneuploidy: prevention and early detection.
- Report from the NASPGN Therapeutics Subcommittee. Report of the activities of the gastroIntestinal advisory committee to the FDA.
- Diagnosis and differentiation of fat malabsorption in children using 13C-labeled lipids: trioctanoin, triolein, and palmitic acid breath tests.
- Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease in children. Diagnosis and management.
- Gastroduodenal Crohn's Disease in childhood.
- Ulcerative colitis in children.
- Growth in adulthood after liver transplantation for glycogen storage Disease type I.
- Resolution of Helicobacter pylori-associated gastric lymphoproliferative Disease in a child.
- Growth and development in chronic inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Corticosteroid treatment for inflammatory bowel Disease in pediatric patients increases intraocular pressure.
- Methotrexate therapy for pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Permanent growth failure in pediatric inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Reversal of growth retardation in Crohn's Disease with therapy emphasizing oral nutritional restitution.
- Ocular toxicity of prednisone in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Nutritional consequences of inflammatory bowel Disease on growth.
- Lactose malabsorption in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Somatomedin-C levels in growth-impaired children and adolescents with chronic inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Differences in the management of inflammatory bowel Disease in children and adolescents compared to adults.
- A frameshift mutation in NOD2 associated with susceptibility to Crohn''s Disease.
- Growth retardation in inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Use of barbiturates in the treatment of cyclic vomiting during childhood.
- Chronic inflammatory bowel Disease.
- An updated medical position statement of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
- Endoscopic and histologic findings in the upper gastrointestinal tract of children with Crohn's Disease.
- Is lactobacillus GG helpful in children with Crohn's Disease? Results of a preliminary, open-label study.
- Passive smoking is associated with an increased risk of developing inflammatory bowel Disease in children.
- Nutritional support for pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis associated with chronic inflammatory bowel Disease in children.
- American families with Crohn's Disease have strong evidence for linkage to chromosome 16 but not chromosome 12.
- Identification of novel susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel Disease on chromosomes 1p, 3q, and 4q: evidence for epistasis between 1p and IBD1.
- Development and validation of a pediatric Crohn's Disease activity index.
- Safety of azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Olsalazine versus sulfasalazine in mild to moderate childhood Ulcerative colitis: results of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Collaborative Research Group Clinical Trial.
- The use of cisapride in children. The North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
- Oral tacrolimus treatment of severe Colitis in children.
- Linkage heterogeneity for the IBD1 locus in Crohn's Disease pedigrees by Disease onset and severity.
- Relationship of common laboratory parameters to the activity of Crohn's Disease in children.
- Bone mineral density assessment in children with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- 6-mercaptopurine metabolite levels in children with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Common variants at five new loci associated with early-onset inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Inflammatory bowel Disease in children and adolescents: Working Group Report of the First World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.
- Challenges in pediatric inflammatory bowel Disease.
- CDP571, a humanized anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha monoclonal antibody in pediatric Crohn''s Disease.
- Transition of care between paediatric and adult gastroenterology. Assessment of growth and nutrition.
- Differentiating ulcerative colitis from Crohn Disease in children and young adults: report of a working group of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterol...
Procedures Preformed
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
Conditions Treated
- Anemia
- Biliary Atresia
- Crohn's Disease (Regional Enteritis)
- Intestinal Obstruction
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- Chicago Mag - Children's Health
- Super Doctor
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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University of Chicago
Hospital
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University of Chicago Medical Center
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