Clinic for Nutrition, Transplant, & Intestinal Rehabilitation

Healing children with digestive disease through innovation

At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s Intestinal Rehabilitation Program we transform lives with research-informed care that moves children toward nutritional freedom, allowing them to fully engage in life and thrive. We address all aspects of your child’s needs—physical, developmental, behavioral, and social—and empower your child to achieve well-being.

Our clinic is dedicated to the care of children and adults living with short bowel syndrome, intestinal pseudoobstruction, or a congenital enteropathy. We know getting one of these diagnoses can be stressful. As one of a few pediatric intestinal rehabilitation programs on the West Coast, we are here to walk beside you to care for your child on this journey.

Program highlights

  • We are a NASPGHAN defined multidisciplinary intestinal rehabilitation program. Our team includes two dedicated surgeons, three physicians, two dieticians, two social workers, and three specialized nurses all focused on the care of children with intestinal failure.
  • By partnering with our on-site Children’s Home Pharmacy, we provide fully customized nutrition for your child from our compounding lab, as one of just four university-affiliated home health pharmacies on the West Coast.

Our goals for your child

  • Maximize your child’s joy, development, and well-being with multidisciplinary, individualized care.
  • Achieve a normal physical exam by optimizing nutrient absorption.
  • Prevent or improve surgical outcomes.
  • Free your child from total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and promote oral feeding whenever possible.
  • Enable your child to live a full life despite TPN, when it is required.
  • Empower you to care for your child at home with accessible support.

Intestinal Rehabilitation Patient Stories