looking for a GI in your area?

[Anonymous]

I am passing on Dr Jeffrey Phillips’ recommendation for Ped GI Dr Barbara Kirschner at the University of Chicago. She is quite well informed, is now familiar with Zegerid and is willing to treat infant reflux aggressively.

If you have experience with Dr Kirschner, either good or bad, please post your comments.

[hellbennt]

s&h’s mum Groupie Joined: 30 October 2005 Location: Canada Online Status: Online Posts: 673

Posted: 08 February 2006 at 3:39pm | IP Logged I just found a great site. It’s from the association that many ped GIs register with (NaSPGHAN). It has lots of info about GERD and other GI conditions, but also has a doctor finder service. You type in your city in North America, and all the ped gi’s registered will come up. Unfortunately, you don’t know anything about them, and the contact info is not always there, but it’s good if you need to doctor shop. Here’s the link: http://www.naspghan.org . Go down to for the public (if I remember correctly), then select doctor finder.

[hellbennt]

from: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4363&a mp;TPN=1

Igloochic Newbie Joined: 20 February 2006 Online Status: Online Posts: 1

Posted: 20 February 2006 at 4:39pm | IP Logged I’m looking for a Minnesota doc as well and just had a disasterous and a great experience trying to find one. The first one I tried to get to talk with was Dr. Stafford. Dr S is “too busy to make an appointment to talk to a parent” even though I would be flying 13 hours to see him and wanted to be sure I was comfortable with him (I asked for a 10 min phone consultation to provide him with my son’s history, which I would pay for and discuss his credentials and experience with premature infants and reflux issues). He was recommended by the NICU so I expected a good guy but he was, well heck I can’t say how “he” was…since he’s too snooty to talk to parents, but his office sucked. I then went through the nightmare of calling the University for a doc in Minneapolis verses St. Paul. Their phone system frankly is awful (you finally get an operator who transfers you to surgery verses the gastro dept…happened 6 times!) but if you cheat and push the buttons for a “referring doctor” you’ll get a real human (a lovely woman with a British accent) and SHE will then get you to the nurse (a wonderful woman as well) who arranged for me to have a pre appointment with a doc over the phone after I’ve sent the records down (I offered that with Dr. S as well mind you). The nurse is great, and their address is: U of M – Gastroenterology, Ped Mayo Mail Code 185 420 Delaware St SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 624-1133 They have several doctors (gastro specialists is one of the docs the university is known for) so I’m feeling like this is the best bet, but after our appointment I’ll post the outcome and let you know. They’re about 3 weeks out for new patients, but said that they would make further testing as quick and easy as possible for us since we’re coming from Alaska. They really were very professional and I was very impressed. I might TP doctor S’s office on the way if it’s handy heh heh (Kidding!…well umm ya, kidding) heh heh What an arrogent poop, especially for a guy who is supposed to specialize in poop analysis LOL I guess he’s just far too into his work

[Anonymous]

MI

Ann Arbor MI

Dr. Naddaf University Of Michigan

Pediatric GI Clinic

edited by hellbennt 8/7/10:
from page 10 of this thread:
Madison WI

from this thread re: Nodular Lymphoid Hyperplasia,
posted byTaraWI

Dr. Michael R. Yaffe, MD Place page

1313 Fish Hatchery Road
Madison, WI 53715-1991
(608) 252-8150

hellbennt2010-08-08 15:19:30

[hellbennt]

Philidelphia, PA: Dr. DiPalma https://www.infantreflux.org/forums/topic/terrible-mommy/#post-8228

Danville, PA: Geisinger Clinic

https://www.infantreflux.org/forums/topic/doctors-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/#post-67106

NOT HAPPY WITH Dr. Mahmoud Sabri
click on link to read more about Geisinger Clinic

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Atlanta GA: GI: Dr. Saripikin. http://www.ccdhc.org/ This is the same group that Karen the reflux forum creator recommended.

ENT: Dr. Gower http://www.childrensent.com/index.html

from: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4425&a mp;KW=specialist

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Atlanta GA (from Addysmommy page 11 of this thread)

Dr. Lisa Miller
Covington, GA
770-788-1077

http://lisamillermdpediatrics.com/

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from page 5, JohannaC

Atlanta:AVOID: Dr. Edith Pilzer at Scottish Rite Atlanta, GA

Acknowledged Reflux, but downplayed it….called him a “fussy infant.” Difficult to talk to, disregarded questions (especially related to testing), made some ridiculous recommendations, would not give Neocate prescription

Feel free to send me a PM, if you have other questions

AND, page 6, she found someone she liked:

AWESOME doctor in Atlanta – Dr. Larry Saripkin at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (Perimeter office).

Feel free to contact me for more info.

JohannaC

hellbennt2010-12-24 11:24:26

[Anonymous]

We just went to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC and saw Dr. Riera and Dr. Sullivan they GREAT!

They suggested all the things I was going to before I got them out of my mouth.

[Anonymous]

Orlando Florida & Tampa Florida

Orlando
Nemours Clinic http://www.nemours.org

GI- Dr. Bornstein
Pulmonology- Dr. Sabogal

Both of these doctors are great but I can’t say enough about our pulmonologist!!!!!!! He is wonderful and was the biggest help of ALL of the many doctors we saw.

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TAMPA who NOT to see, followed by whom TO see!!
laura, Moderator here, adding this- the following is from page seven (7)
and posted by jilly78

If you are in Florida, please beware of Pediatric Gastro in Temple
Terrace, Tampa. I saw Dr. Ignacio but spoke mostly to a student that is
studying there. It is very close to a college campus and students do
most of the legwork. It is very frustrating to speak solely to students
and then get 5 minutes with the GI doctor. Also, if you call them, the
student calls you back! It is also impossible to get a marci-kids dose. Beware! Travel anywhere else but here…

Tampa– this is also from jilly78, from page nine (9)
For those in the Tampa Bay area, I know how hard it is to find a GI that is decent:

Try Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition of Tampa Bay (Dr Arasu, Williams and Cuenca)

P-(813) 870 4438

F-(813) 870 4153

Dr. Arasu is very nice and that is who we saw- you have to push a little esp with meds, but he listens

Everyone likes Dr. Williams and he is VERY VERY hard to get in to see. I never got to see him, you can try though.

Dr. Cuenca is also always booked up.
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Tampa– this is fom erintx on page nine (9)
Dr. Michael Wilsey in Tampa/St. Pete is great. He took a long time to
listen to our concerns & was proactive w/o being too aggressive.

He doesn’t do marci-kids dosing though. We went through our general ped for that.

hellbennt2009-11-22 20:15:52

[Anonymous]

OHIO

Cincinnati Childrens Hospital – Dr. Phil Putnam and Dr. Bucavalus

Columbus Childrens Hospital – Dr. DiLorenzo (renowned in motility issues)

[Anonymous]

It’s been a while, so I’ll re-add ours…

Dr. Brown @ Medical City Children’s in Dallas

(his partners are wonderful too, from personal experience, Dr. An is great & a friend uses Dr. Argao & they really like him too!)

[Anonymous]

VIRGINIA: Hampton Roads area in VA

Highly recommend Newport News Pediatrics if you move to the hampton roads area in VA. Dr. Maria Chen, Dr. Bolduc, Dr.Galloway and Nurse Shockey are the practitioners. My 2 kids have seen all of them even though Dr. Chen is our ped and i have not been let down by any of them in their work ups or follow through. For 3 yrs now. oh yeah and their office staff is wonderful. follow through and courtesy are always there.

Dr. Gregory Kobak, part of CHKD gastroenterology is also good about being aggressive yet reasonable. Even when i questioned him on why this test and not that he didn’t flinch and proceeded to gather pieces to my son’s reflux puzzle.

Allergist: Dr. Maripaz Morales also part of CHKD in hampton roads. Diligent and consistently plugs away at getting to the root of symptoms. Also has not let us down with treatment and follow through.

hellbennt2011-07-10 19:23:21

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any information about Dr. Jack An DHAT, Dallas, TX?

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Dont know how i have never posted on this topic…

We use Dr Eric Argao at Medical City Dallas hospital, he is great with treating reflux. We also have had personal expirience with Dr An and Dr Brown (when Samantha was in the hospital they were on call) and they were great.

BTW~if your child needs to be admitted to the hospital (hopefully not needed) Medical City is fantastic! I have nothing but good things to say about them.

[Anonymous]

Well, we saw Dr. An today and he was very nice. Brycen is going to have a procedure on Wednesday of next week to see what is going on. Another scope…but it will be worth it if we can figure out what the meds aren’t working. So far so good…I will know more after next week as far as Dr. An’s treatment and how well we like him. So far I am very impressed.

[Anonymous]

MISSOURI

Kansas city, MO ~ Sara Hasl*g, nurse practitioner @ the GI clinic at Childrens Mercy Hospital downtown. She is absolutely wonderful!!!

[it’s weird!! but when one tries to type the letter ‘a’ after the letter ‘l’ it comes out as an asterik! Sara Hasl a g]

[To help condense posts:]

St. Louis MO:

Lynda Brady in St. Louis, MO

posted, w/ permission, from Rachel of the

Facebook Group page called “Fans of Marci-kids and Reflux Solutions”

hellbennt2012-04-08 11:00:39

[Anonymous]

OHIO: Akron

I posted this on another one, but was asked to post here too…..so here goes:

I have to tell you that when my daughter was 8 wks. old, we saw a ped. GI and I was not happy (and that was at Children’s Hospital in Akron). My daughter also has asthma and it has been out of control. So at the suggestion of the pharamisist (sp?) we went and saw a

pediatric pulmonary specialist (Dr. Kraynack). He was the one to suggest that she get a Chalasia Scan, which is a barium test that shows if she had reflux. And guess what? She did and the ped. GI said she does not have acid reflux. Our pediatric pulmonary specialist is WONDERFUL and we are seen more improvement than what we saw after she saw the allergist. He is in Hudson and at Children’s Hospital in Akron.

hellbennt2011-07-10 19:25:11

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