Dr. Joel Edward Lavine M.D., PH.D.
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
8110 Birmingham Way San Diego CA, 92123Rating
4/5
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Dr. Joel Lavine is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Lavine 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
Univ of Ca, San Diego, Sch of Med, La Jolla Ca 1984
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Vitamin E treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in children: a pilot study.
- Hepatomegaly in neonates and children.
- Integral role of interventional radiology in the development of a pediatric liver transplantation program.
- Drugs and the liver: advances in metabolism, toxicity, and therapeutics.
- Pediatric initiatives within the Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis-Clinical Research Network (NASH CNR).
- Obesity, insulin resistance, and other clinicopathological correlates of pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
- Lumen and the liver--together again in NASHville.
- Esophagogastric disconnection following failed fundoplication for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in children with severe neurological impairment.
- A phase 2 clinical trial of metformin as a treatment for non-diabetic paediatric non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
- Influence of gender, race, and ethnicity on suspected fatty liver in obese adolescents.
- Histopathology of pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
- Gastrointestinal complications of mitochondrial disease.
- Successful liver transplantation in a child with severe portopulmonary hypertension treated with epoprostenol.
- Acute liver failure in children: the first 348 patients in the pediatric acute liver failure study group.
- Polymerase gene products of hepatitis B viruses are required for genomic RNA packaging as wel as for reverse transcription.
Awards
- 2011 New York Super Doctors
Treatments
- Liver Transplant, Liver Fibrosis, Hepatitis And More
Fellowships
- University of California-San Francisco Medical Center
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