Centennial Professor of Pediatrics

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Robert Rothbaum works in the field of Pediatric Gastroenterology. He went to medical school at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is ranked 10/19 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received awards:"St. Louis Magazine: Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors", "Special Recognition for Service", "Distinguished Clinician Award", "Founders Day Distinguished Faculty Award", "Distinguished Service Teaching Award", "Samuel Goldstein Teaching Award", "Samuel Goldstein Leadership Award", "St. Louis Best Doctors", "Physician of the Year Award", "Elected one of "The Best Doctors in America: Central Region", "Teacher of the Year", "25 Year Service Award", "Alpha Omega Alpha", "Phi Beta Kappa" and "Top MD". Robert J. Rothbaum, MD is a published doctor and has 28 publications published. The lastest was: 'Cystic fibrosis: CT findings of colonic disease.'

Publications

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• Early Volume Expansion During Diarrhea and Relative Nephroprotection During Subsequent Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.
• Deer sausage: a newly identified vehicle of transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7.
• Mutations of the SBDS gene are present in most patients with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome.
• Image of the month. Focal nodular hyperplasia.
• Integrating social and ethics-based aspects of medicine into physician education.
• Evaluation of the pediatric crohn Disease activity index: a prospective multicenter experience.
• The natural history of corticosteroid therapy for Ulcerative colitis in children.
• Corticosteroid therapy in the age of infliximab: acute and 1-year outcomes in newly diagnosed children with Crohn''s Disease.
• Health-related quality of life in the first year after a diagnosis of pediatric inflammatory bowel Disease.
• Laboratory values for children with newly diagnosed inflammatory bowel Disease.
• Induction of the stress response in alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency.
• Granulomatous hepatitis associated with cat scratch Disease.
• Unusual surface distribution of concanavalin A reflects a cytoskeletal defect in neutrophils in Shwachman''s syndrome.
• An ultrastructural study of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection in human infants.
• Serum alkaline phosphatase and zinc undernutrition in infants with chronic diarrhea.
• Silent gonorrhea in siblings. Case reports.
• Grade I Reye's syndrome. A frequent cause of Vomiting and liver dysfunction after varicella and upper-respiratory-tract infection.
• A clinicopathologic study of enterocyte-adherent Escherichia coli: a cause of protracted diarrhea in infants.
• Diarrhea caused by adherent enteropathogenic E. coli.
• Outpatient liver biopsy in children: has the time come?
• Hepatobiliary sonography in cystic fibrosis.
• Multicenter trial of d-alpha-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate for treatment of vitamin E deficiency in children with chronic cholestasis.
• Complications of pediatric endoscopy.
• Cystic fibrosis: CT findings of colonic Disease.
• Similarities in cyclic Vomiting syndrome across age groups.
• Shwachman-Diamond syndrome: report from an international conference.
• Bone marrow failure in Shwachman-Diamond syndrome does not select for clonal haematopoiesis of the paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria phenotype.

Procedures Preformed

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• Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
• Endoscopy (Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine)

Conditions Treated

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• Abdominal Pain
• Anemia
• Crohn's Disease (Regional Enteritis)
• Esophagitis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Gastroenterology

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
• Blue Card PPO
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• LocalPlus
• Open Access Plus
• Health and Life PPO
• Coventry Health Care of Missouri PPO
• HealthLink PPO
• Homestate Health Plan
• Choice Care PPO
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO

Awards

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• St. Louis Magazine: Top Doctors
• America's Top Doctors
• Special Recognition for Service
• Distinguished Clinician Award
• Founders Day Distinguished Faculty Award
• Distinguished Service Teaching Award
• Samuel Goldstein Teaching Award
• Samuel Goldstein Leadership Award
• St. Louis Best Doctors
• Physician of the Year Award
• Elected one of "The Best Doctors in America: Central Region”
• Teacher of the Year
• 25 Year Service Award
• Alpha Omega Alpha
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Top MD

Education

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• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Hospital

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• St. Louis Children's Hospital
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital

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