Dr. Christopher P Duggan MD, MPH
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
300 Longwood Ave Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Christopher Duggan is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Duggan 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.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1987
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Age, temperature, and parasitaemia predict chloroquine treatment failure and anaemia in children with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
- The role of enteral nutrition in the reversal of parenteral nutrition-associated liver dysfunction in infants.
- Serial transverse enteroplasty is associated with successful short-term outcomes in infants with short bowel syndrome.
- Low maternal vitamin B12 status is associated with intrauterine growth retardation in urban South Indians.
- Nutritional deficiencies during critical illness.
- Predictors of anaemia and iron deficiency in HIV-infected pregnant women in Tanzania: a potential role for vitamin D and parasitic infections.
- Resting energy expenditure after Fontan surgery in children with single-ventricle heart defects.
- Nutritional practices and their relationship to clinical outcomes in critically ill children--an international multicenter cohort study*.
- Predictors of stunting, wasting and underweight among Tanzanian children born to HIV-infected women.
- Stunting and wasting are associated with poorer psychomotor and mental development in HIV-exposed Tanzanian infants.
- Effect of multivitamin supplementation on the neurodevelopment of HIV-exposed Tanzanian infants: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
- Comparison of body composition assessment methods in pediatric intestinal failure.
- Accuracy of a simplified equation for energy expenditure based on bedside volumetric carbon dioxide elimination measurement--a two-center study.
- Adequate enteral protein intake is inversely associated with 60-d mortality in critically ill children: a multicenter, prospective, cohort study.
- Daily Zinc but Not Multivitamin Supplementation Reduces Diarrhea and Upper Respiratory Infections in Tanzanian Infants: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.
Clinical Trials
Awards
- Children's Hospital, Boston 2006 Harvard Medical School Student Teaching Award
Treatments
- Cystic Fibrosis (cf)
Fellowships
- Children's Hospital Boston - Boston, MA 1991
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