Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), affiliated with Harvard Medical School is one of the largest medical centers and research institutions dedicated to pediatric medicine in North America. As innovators in child health, Boston Children’s improves the health of children by integrating care, research and teaching. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centered, compassionate care, to lead in scientific and clinical advancement, and to train the next generation of leaders in child health. The research enterprise at Boston Children’s Hospital, comprising more than 3,000 researchers, is the world’s largest at a pediatric center. Our work is fueled by a deep understanding of disease coupled with world-class discovery platforms, including genetics and genomics, gene editing, bioinformatics, proteomics, bioengineering, image analysis, multiple animal models, biobanks and disease-specific stem cell lines.
The Congenital Enteropathy Program within the GI Division at Boston Children’s Hospital is the first and only pediatric program in the world dedicated to the clinical care, research and advocacy for infants and children with CODE disorders. The program consists of a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists working together to advance diagnosis, clinical management and develop treatments for CODE disorders.
In collaboration with the other main centers in the PediCoDE consortium, our research labs are actively engaged in all aspects of research within the consortium. We are also actively supported by the resources provided by the NIH P30 funded Harvard Digestive Disease Center.
Wayne Lencer, MD
Principal Investigator
wayne.lencer@childrens.harvard.edu
Lencer Lab
Jay Thiagarajah, MD, PhD
Co-Investigator, Director of Research
jay.thiagarajah@childrens.harvard.edu
Thiagarajah Lab
Lissette Jimenez, MD
Co-Investigator, Clinical Director
Lissette.Jimenez@childrens.harvard.edu
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Jeffrey Goldsmith, MD
Co-Investigator, Director of Pathology
jeffrey.goldsmith@childrens.harvard.edu
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Meri Kalashyan, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator
Boston Children’s Hospital
Enders Building 620 300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
meri.kalashyan@childrens.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-355-2545
Stephanie Regis, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator
Boston Children’s Hospital
Enders Building 620 300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Stephanie.Regis@childrens.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-355-8881
Katlynn Bugda Gwilt, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Katlynn.BugdaGwilt@childrens.harvard.edu
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated with the University of Toronto, is Canada’s most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children’s health in the country. As innovators in child health, SickKids improves the health of children by integrating care, research and teaching.
Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred, compassionate care, to lead in scientific and clinical advancement, and to prepare the next generation of leaders in child health. SickKids provides the best in complex and specialized care by creating scientific and clinical advancements, sharing knowledge and expertise and championing the development of an accessible, comprehensive and sustainable child health system. SickKids is proud of its vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.
Aleixo Muise MD, PhD, FRCPC
Principal Investigator
E-mail: aleixo.muise@sickkids.ca
Muise Lab
Yaron Avitzur, MD
Co-Investigator, Clinical Director
E-mail: yaron.avitzur@sickkids.ca
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Thomas Walters MBBS, MSc, FRACP
Co-Investigator, Director of Data Management
E-mail: thomas.walters@sickkids.ca
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Iram Siddiqui MBBS, MSc, FRCPC
Director of Pathology
E-mail: iram.siddiqui@sickkids.ca
Neil Warner Ph.D.
Co-investigator, Genetic sequencing
E-mail: neil.warner@sickkids.ca
Karoline Fiedler, BA
Program Manager
The Hospital for Sick Children
PGCRL Tower
Office 12.9840
686 Bay Street
E-mail: karoline.fiedler@sickkids.ca
Victoria Srbely, MSc
Clinical Research Assistant
The Hospital for Sick Children
Office 8258
555 University Avenue
E-mail: victoria.srbely@sickkids.ca
Ashley Wu, BSc
Clinical Research Coordinator
PGCRL Tower
Office 12.9840
686 Bay Street
E-mail: ashley.wu@sickkids.ca
Jeffrey Chow, MSc
Clinical Research Coordinator
PGCRL Tower
Office 12.9840
686 Bay Street
E-mail: jeffrey.chow@sickkids.ca
The Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at UCLA is an integral part of the Department of Pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and emphasizes outstanding clinical care, cutting-edge research, and training of future academic leaders in the field of pediatric gastroenterology.
Our multidisciplinary program brings multiple specialists together to provide consultation, diagnosis and medical management of children with CODE disorders. Our GI specialists are nationally and internationally recognized for their expertise in CODE disorders.
Martín G. Martín MD, MPP
Consortium Director, Principal Investigator,
E-mail: MMartin@mednet.ucla.edu
Martin Lab
Robert Venick, MD
Co-Investigator, Clinical Director
E-mail: RVenick@mednet.ucla.edu
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Bita Naini, MD
Co-Investigator, Director of Pathology
E-mail: BNaini@mednet.ucla.edu
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Martín G. Martín MD, MPP
Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition,
Department of Pediatrics,
Mattel Children’s Hospital and the David Geffen School of Medicine,
12222 UCLA Los Angeles, CA, USA
E-mail: MMartin@mednet.ucla.edu
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Monroe Carrell Jr Children’s Hospital are one of the oldest and largest academic medical centers and research institutions in the United States. Our mission is rooted in a rich history of commitment to excellence in patient care, research, and education. World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease. 
The result is an institution which reaches far beyond the walls of our hospital to provide high-quality personalized patient care, to train the next generation of leaders in pediatric medicine, and to advance our knowledge of important conditions that affect vulnerable infants and children through world class collaborative research.
Major areas of investigation include establishment and maintenance of epithelial cell polarity, regulation of vesicle trafficking and cytoskeletal organization, epithelial defense against infectious agents and the identification and characterization of adult epithelial stem cell populations. As one of the four founding members of the PediCoDE consortium, our labs have actively pursued the characterization of the cellular pathophysiology of congenital pediatric diarrheal diseases including microvillus inclusion disease and DGAT1 deficiency.
The Epithelial Biology Center also supports the Vanderbilt Digital Histology Shared Resource that is responsible for multiplexed immunofluorescence examination of intestinal biopsies from congenital diarrhea patients under the PediCODE consortium.
Sari Acra, MD, MPH
Hernan Correa, MD 
Izumi Kaji, PhD
Matthew Tyska, PhD
Joseph T. Roland, PhD
Chelsea Campbell, RN, BSN
Pediatric Research Nurse Specialist
1211 21st Avenue South, 103C MAB
Nashville, TN 37212
E-mail: chelsea.n.campbell@vumc.org
Phone: 615- 875-6039
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Boston Children’s Hospital
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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