Team

Our team includes board-certified pediatric gastroenterologists, nurse practitioners, a physician assistant, and clinical and research staff members.

Physicians

David Brent Polk, M.D., Division Chief; Executive Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics and professor of pediatrics, UC San Diego

Soma Kumar, M.D., Interim Clinical Director; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

Laura Bauman, M.D., Associate Physician, UC San Diego

Lars Bode, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego; Director of LRF MoMI CoRE; Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Chair of Collaborative Human Milk Research

Kerri Boutelle, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Healthy Eating and Activity Research, UC San Diego; Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, UC San Diego

Lillian J. Choi, M.D., Director of Endoscopy; Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

Christopher Chu, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

Ranjan Dohil, M.D., Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UC San Diego

Mary Abigail S. Garcia, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

Nidhi Goyal, M.D., M.P.H., GI Fellowship Program Director, Associate Clinical Professor, UC San Diego

Phillipp Hartmann, M.D., M.A.S., D.A.B.O.M, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego

Amber Hildreth, D.O., Associate Medical Director for Hepatology and Transplant, Assistant Clinical Professor, UC San Diego

Xenia B. Hom, M.D. , Associate Physician, UC San Diego

Jeannie S. Huang, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center; Director of Continuing Medical Education, Rady Children’s; Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

Kimberly P. Newton, M.D., Director, Celiac Disease Center and Interim Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program; Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, UC San Diego