Clinical Management of Intestinal Failure
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Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH, has been performing clinical studies in the fields of pediatric nutrition, gastroenterology, and global health for over 20 years. He is an attending pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition physician at Children's Hospital Boston where he directs the Clinical Nutrition Service. He is the medical director of the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation, one of the largest centers in the United States for the care of children with intestinal failure/chronic diarrhea syndromes. His funded research efforts include trials of nutrient supplementation in women and children susceptible to infectious diseases in Tanzania, India, and other countries. He is the codirector of the Harvard College course Nutrition and Global Health and mentors undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students at Harvard. He is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health.
Kathleen M. Gura
, PharmD, BCNSP, FASHP, is the team leader with Surgical Programs and a clinical pharmacist with the Clinical Nutrition Service in the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Children's Hospital Boston. She is also an associate professor of pharmacy practice at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston. Her professional focus is on academic clinical pharmacy and research, and her areas of expertise include nutritional support for critically ill pediatric patients, nutritional support in intestinal failure, sterile products preparation, aluminum toxicity, and drug-nutrient interactions. Her research in the area of parenteral nutrition-associated liver injury is currently funded by the March of Dimes with additional funding coming from the FDA's Orphan Drug Development Program.Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD
, is the surgical director of the Center for Advanced Intes
