Dr. Peter F Whitington M.D.
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
2300 Children's Plaza, Box 57 2300 Children's Plaz Chicago IL, 60614About
Dr. Peter Whitington is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in Chicago, IL. Dr. Whitington specializes in digestive system, liver or nutritional problems in children from the newborn period to their teens. Conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance, chronic constipation or obesity can all be treated by a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Gastroenterology- 1990
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- 1977
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Transplant Hepatology- 2006
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ethical issues in pediatric liver transplantation.
- Diagnosis of hepatic allograft rejection: role of liver biopsy.
- Overview of reduced-size liver transplantation.
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and endobiliary stenting for the treatment of a bile leak in a child.
- Linear growth after pediatric liver transplantation.
- Experience with the Rex shunt (mesenterico-left portal bypass) in children with extrahepatic portal hypertension.
- Pulmonary complications following liver transplantation in pediatric patients.
- Clinical aspects of familial cholestasis (with molecular explanations).
- Autoimmune hepatitis as a late complication of liver transplantation.
- Living donor liver transplantation for children with liver failure and concurrent multiple organ system failure.
- Fulminant hepatitis in children: evidence for an unidentified hepatitis virus.
- Molecular basis of neonatal cholestasis.
- Fetal gender and cocaine exposure as determinants of cord blood gamma-glutamyl transferase activity.
- Partial external biliary diversion for intractable pruritus and xanthomas in
- Surgical restoration of portal flow corrects procoagulant and anticoagulant deficiencies associated with extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis.
Awards
- Chicago Super Doctors 2012
Fellowships
- University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics, Gastroenterology 1978
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Gastroenterology 1977
- University of Wisconsin Hospital 1978
- Johns Hopkins University Hospital 1977
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