M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital is the longest-running top-ranked children’s hospital in the Twin Cities. We combine comprehensive care, advanced medical minds, and caring hearts in a team approach with your child and your family at its center. Our team stands ready to give your child the brightest possible future.

Our gastroenterology, liver, and nutrition care experts work closely with our colleagues across many specialty programs, including our renowned Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Center, the liver transplant programs, and our groundbreaking total pancreatectomy and islet auto-transplant (TP-IAT) program. We offer: 

• A dedicated team of skilled pediatric gastroenterologists and hepatologists
• A wide range of diagnostic tests and procedures for both common and rare GI, liver, and nutrition disorders in children, from colonoscopy and upper endoscopy to manometry studies and biopsies 
• State-of-the-art pediatric endoscopic equipment for thorough evaluation and diagnosis of GI symptoms
• State-of-the-science liver transplantation
• The largest and most experienced pediatric TP-IAT program in the world
• Seamless integration with the Rare Disease Program

In 1977, University of Minnesota physicians performed the first TP-IAT in the world. Since then, our surgeons have performed more than 600 procedures, with over 100 of them on children ages 3 to 18.

M Health Fairview’s Cystic Fibrosis Pediatrics Center is one of the world’s largest and most experienced and is home to a multidisciplinary team that provides optimal care to allow for the highest quality of life possible.

In partnership with the robust clinical research enterprise at the University of Minnesota our pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology team currently conducts clinical studies in:

• Inflammatory bowel diseases in children, including newly developed treatment modalities, quality improvement studies, and epidemiological studies
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Chronic hepatitis B
• Pediatric nutrition
• Gastrointestinal, liver, and nutritional complications of pediatric cystic fibrosis