“Our mission at Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition of Florida is to provide exceptional pediatric care that is personalized to the needs of each patient”.
Our team of highly trained and board certified physicians treats all conditions listed below and more. We are committed to providing the highest quality of medical care for the central Florida area families.
Our practice is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of both common and complex gastrointestinal, liver and nutritional disorders of children from birth to age 21. Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition of Florida is focused on providing comprehensive gastroenterology care, effective office communication, and education regarding diagnoses and therapy for the benefit of our patients and their families.
About Us
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition of Florida, P.A. provides comprehensive evaluation, diagnostic procedures and therapy for infants, children and adolescents with disorders of the stomach, intestines, colon, liver, pancreas and nutrition. The group was started in 1983 by Daniel T. McClenathan, M.D. in St. Petersburg, Florida and currently includes twelve Pediatric Gastroenterologists and twelve Nurse Practitioners. Our physicians have all completed three years of residency training in Pediatrics and three additional years of training in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.
All of our physicians are proficient diagnosticians, a skill essential for the accurate evaluation of our patients with abdominal pain, poor weight gain, vomiting, diarrhea and constipation. Most children occasionally experience one or more of these symptoms. Some children, however, develop recurrent symptoms, which interrupt their normal life, inhibit their development, disrupt their school performance and affect their emotional well-being and self-esteem.
We serve pediatric patients, from newborns to teens, with conditions such as the following:
- Acute & Chronic Abdominal Pain
- Celiac Disease
- Constipation & Diarrhea
- Crohn’s disease
- Encopresis
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- Esophageal varices
- Failure to thrive
- Feeding/swallowing disorders
- Fatty Liver
- Gastroesophageal Reflux
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Helicobacter Pylori
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Lactose Intolerance
- Milk Protien allergy (common in infants)
- Motility disorders
(abnormal intestinal contractions) - Nausea & Vomiting
- Poor Weight Gain
- Swallowed foreign bodies
- Short gut syndrome
- Ulcerative colitis
Services & Procedures
• Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with biopsies
• Colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and small bowel enteroscopy with biopsies
• Dilation of esophageal and colonic strictures
• Endoscopic electrocautry, heat ablation and laser therapy of bleeding lesions in the stomach, duodenum and colon
• Endoscopic polypectomy
• Esophageal variceal sclerotherapy and variceal banding
• Foreign body recovery from the esophagus and stomach
• Gastojejunostomy tube placements
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)
• Percutaneous liver biopsy
• Prolonged intraesophageal pH monitoring
• Video capsule endoscopy
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopanecraticography (ERCP)
• Small bowel biopsy with measurement of intestinal enzymes
Affiliations
Our physicians are credentialed at the following Florida hospitals: Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Tampa, Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, and Golisano Hospital in Fort Myers.