Hepatology | The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

OUR EXPERTISE

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Caring for a child with liver disease can be complicated and requires ongoing, astute and sophisticated management by experts such as ours. The Pediatric Liver Program at CHAM is dedicated to providing the best treatments possible for your child and to educate and assist your family every step of the way. Our objective is to maximize liver function, facilitate healthy growth and development and improve the quality of life for each infant, child and adolescent that we treat.

Our team explores all potential treatment strategies, both medical and surgical, before determining the best options. If we find that your child needs a liver transplant, our transplant program is built around a team of internationally renowned surgeons, as well as gastroenterologists, hepatologists, nurses, social workers, nutritionists and administrators, all of whom specialize in liver disease and transplantation.

OUR TEAM

Our mission is to provide state-of-the-art, comprehensive, family-centered medical and surgical care to children with liver disease, including those in need of transplantation.

Nadia Ovchinsky, MD, MBA

Director, Pediatric Hepatology
Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Children's Hospital at Montefiore

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SERVICES & PROGRAMS

Our pediatric liver program offers sophisticated, multidisciplinary treatment for the full spectrum of liver and hepatobiliary diseases and disorders.

To diagnose your child’s condition as quickly and effectively as possible, our physicians will analyze his or her symptoms, conduct a thorough physical examination and, as necessary, use a variety of state-of-the-art blood tests and radiographic and endoscopic procedures. We use the least invasive approaches as possible and provide:

Inpatient and outpatient consultation
Multifaceted, novel therapeutic plans
Collaborative care with CHAM’s Division of Pediatric Surgery and the Montefiore Einstein Center For Transplantation for liver transplant, hepatobiliary surgery (for such conditions as biliary atresia, biliary cysts and tumors) and other advanced surgical solutions
Pediatric Fatty Liver Disease Clinic. This weekly clinic is devoted exclusively to treating patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
Coordinated long-term care plans and follow up
Ongoing clinical research

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Education & Training

Our program is an integral part of the fellowship training in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition. All gastroenterology fellows have dedicated hepatology rotations.

The overall goal of the rotation is for the fellow to master all aspects of direct clinical care of pre and post liver transplant patients, as well as patients afflicted with non-transplant related diseases of the liver. The skills to be acquired include clinical assessment, treatment plan formulation, team organization, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, and procedural expertise.

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RESEARCH

We are dedicated to providing the highest quality clinical care to our patients, while also conducting cutting-edge research targeting the mechanisms and therapies for pediatric liver disease. Our team members work extensively with the Marion Bessin Liver Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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