Pediatric Liver and Biliary Disease Center
Contact Information
Pediatric Liver and Biliary Disease Center
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
32 Fruit Street, Suite 6B
Boston,
MA
02114
Phone: 888-644-3211
Fax: 617-643-2384
Liver Transplant Clinic
165 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-1218
Fax: 617-726-2167
To schedule an appointment with a MassGeneral for Children pediatric specialist, please call 888-644-3248 or complete our online appointment form to request an appointment.
Physicians may call 888-644-3211 or use the online referral form and the Access & New Appointment Center will call your patient within one business day.
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Schedule a Virtual Visit
Our team provides patients with virtual visits using video-based programs over a secure Internet connection to the patient’s desktop computer, laptop or tablet. Virtual visits give our patients and families a direct video link with their pediatric gastroenterologist without having to travel for an appointment. Patients may discuss symptoms and clarify treatment plans from the comfort of their home or another private setting. To arrange a virtual visit, please call 888-644-3211.
Learn more about virtual visitsOverview
The Pediatric Liver and Biliary Disease Center at Mass General for Children diagnoses and treats infants, children and adolescents with diverse hepatic, biliary and pancreatic disorders ranging from gall stones and infectious hepatitis to rare metabolic and autoimmune liver diseases.
We are a multidisciplinary program that draws on all of the specialists at Mass General for Children as well as Massachusetts General Hospital to provide focused, comprehensive outpatient and inpatient care. We lead in the application of current knowledge to clinical care and are at the forefront in research, finding new cures for disease.
Working closely with the Mass General Center for Transplantation and Adult Hepatology, we comprise the medical component of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program and oversee the care of pediatric patients who are waiting for a new liver as well as those who have undergone transplantation.
Our Neonatal Hepatology Program is a novel multidisciplinary program that draws on the expertise of several specialties, including Neonatology, Pediatric Hepatology, Pediatric Nutrition, Pediatric Surgery, Medical Genetics and Metabolism and Pediatric Imaging.
Reflecting the often-complex care of children with hepatobiliary disorders, our group works collaboratively with other pediatric specialists throughout Mass General for Children, including:
- Hepatologists
- Gastroenterologists
- Pediatric surgeons
- Transplant surgeons
- Endoscopists
- Interventional radiologists
- Liver and vascular radiologists
- Pathologists
- Infectious disease specialists
- Psychiatrists
- Geneticists
- Nurse practitioners and transplant coordinators
- Nutritionists
- Social workers
- Child Life
As part of our program’s pancreatic component, we work with specialists in pulmonology, cystic fibrosis, immunology, genetics and pediatric surgery.
Hepatologists specializing in transplant medicine provide state-of-the-art care for patients before and after transplant as an integral part of the Liver Transplant Program.
Conditions Treated
Hepatobiliary
All diseases involving the liver and the biliary system, such as:
- Genetic/metabolic disease
- Biliary atresia
- Choledochal cysts
- Gallstones
- Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
- Infectious hepatitis
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Neonatal jaundice
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatic masses
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Storage diseases
- Cystic fibrosis
- Mitochondrial hepatopathy
- Liver failure
- Toxin induced hepatitis/failure
Pancreatic
- Acute and chronic pancreatitis
- Pancreatic cysts and tumors
- Cystic fibrosis
Mass General for Children has been designated as a National Pancreas Foundation Center for the treatment and care of children with pancreatitis. This designation recognizes our physicians' expertise and the center's team approach to the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatitis and related conditions.
Patient Resources
Meet the Team
Director, Pediatric Liver and Biliary Disease Center
Hepatologist
Child Psychiatrist
Nurse
- Rachel Ritter, RN
Dietician
- Simona Lourekas
Patient Services Coordinator
- Omayra Blackmon