Carlo Di Lorenzo, MD

Medical School:

2nd University of Naples - Italy   MD   07/31/1984

Internship:

2nd University of Naples - Italy   07/31/1986

Residency:

2nd University of Naples - Italy   07/31/1988

Fellowship:

Hospital Universitaire des Enfants - Brussels   12/31/1986
University of Southern California County Hospital   04/30/1988
Harbor UCLA Medical Center   06/30/1990

Section:

Gastroenterology/Nutrition   Click to learn about this department

Specialty:

Pediatric Gastroenterology, Certified  
Pediatrics  

Gender:

Male

Languages Spoken:

English, French, Italian

Date of Appointment at
Children's Hospital:

08/27/2004

Office Practice Information:

• Accepts patients 0-18
• Accepts patients 18 years or older
• Accepts Medicaid
• This office is wheelchair accessible

Academic Title:

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Clinical, Teaching & Research Interests*:

Carlo Di Lorenzo, MD, is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Di Lorenzo has co-authored the only book on pediatric gastrointestinal motility and has published more than 100 peer-review original articles and 80 chapters, invited reviews and editorials. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility. He has functioned as a grant reviewer for the NIH and as abstract reviewer for the AGA. Dr. Di Lorenzo has served on the Council of NASPGHAN. He currently serves on council of the ANMS and is the Secretary-Treasurer of the FBG. Dr. Di Lorenzo currently chairs the Slide Pediatric Committee of the Rome III Criteria and is a member of the sub-board of Pediatric Gastroenterology of the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a member of the Functional GI Disorders and Motility Disorders Working Group of the National Commission on Digestive Diseases (NCDD) and he chairs the pediatric consortium for functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Publications*:

Campo JV, Bridge J, Lucas A, Savorelli S, Walker L, Di Lorenzo C, Iyengar S, Brent DA. Physical and emotional health of mothers of youth with functional abdominal pain. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 161(2): 131-7, 2007.

Khan S, Campo J, Bridge JA, Chiappetta LC, Wald A, Di Lorenzo C. Long-term outcome of functional childhood constipation. Digestive Diseases Sciences 52(1): 64-9, 2007.

Liem O, Benninga MA, Mousa HM, Di Lorenzo C. Novel and alternative therapies for childhood constipation. Current Gastroenterology Reports 9(3): 214-8, 2007.

Liem O, Di Lorenzo C, Taminiau JAJM, Mousa HM, Benninga, MA. Current Treatment of Childhood Constipation. Annales Nestle 65: 73-79, 2007.

Saps M, Di Lorenzo C. Probiotics for abdominal pain disorders in children – safe to use but are they helpful? Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology 4(8): 430-1, 2007.

van den Berg MM, Hogan M, Mousa HM, Di Lorenzo C. Colonic manometry catheter placement with primary fluoroscopic guidance. Digestive Diseases Sciences 52(9): 2282-6, 2007.

Awards and Honors*:

Board Member, United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation

Chairman, Pediatric Slide Committee for the Rome III Initiative

Council Member, Functional Bowel Group (FBG)

Grant Reviewer, Thrasher Research Fund

Invited Professor, PhD thesis for Dr. Maartje van Den Berg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Dr. Ilse Hoffman, Leuven, Belgium

Listed, Best Doctors in America

Member, Board for the "Small Intestine" section Faculty of 1000 Medicine

Member, Clinical Practice Committee of the American Motility Society

Member, Editorial Boards of Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Member, Functional GI Disorders & Motility Disorders Working Group of the National Commission on Digestive Diseases (NCDD) of the NIH

Member, GI Working Group for “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” for U.S.News & World Report

Member, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Children’s Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation (CDHNF)

Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders

Member, Sub-board of Pediatric Gastroenterology of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)

Presentations and
Teaching Activities*:

How to Give a Great Talk, Invited Speaker, 2007 NASPGHAN Academic Skill Workshop, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 12-13, 2007

Gastrointestinal Disorders, Invited Speaker, AAP Prep Course, Costa Mesa, California, March 3-7, 2007

Keys to a Great Presentation and How to Write a Manuscript and a Grant Application, Invited Speaker, FBG Fellow Conference, San Diego, California, March 23-25, 2007

New Technologies in the Study of Pediatric Motility and Functional GI Disorders, Invited Speaker, IFFGD Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 12-15, 2007

Motility Disorders in Children, Invited Speaker, Meet the Professor Luncheon, Digestive Disease Week, Washington, D.C., May 20-24, 2007

Visceral Hyperalgesia and Visceral Perception in Children, Invited Speaker, Third International Symposium on Pediatric Gastroenterology, Montreal, Canada, June 14-15, 2007

IBS, IBD, or Both?; Functional GI Disorders: Why Rome?; What to Do with the Constipated Child Who Does Not Get Better?; The Child Who Keeps Vomiting: GER, Rumination, Gastroparesis, Functional Abdominal Pain: The Genes, the Environment, the Early Life Events; New Technologies to Study Functional and Motility Disorders; and Placebos and Nocebos: Treatment of Motility Disorders, 29th Annual Aspen Conference on Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease, Aspen, Colorado, July 22 – 27, 2007

Disturbi Funzionali Intestinali nel Bambino, Invited Speaker, Meeting on Gestione terapeutica del paziente con disturbi cronici gastrointestinali, Rome, Italy, September 12-14, 2007

Gastrointestinal Disorders, Invited Speaker, AAP Prep Course, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 15-19, 2007

New Insights in Neurogastroenterology and Update on Functional and Motor Gastrointestinal Pediatric Disorders, 28th Venezuelan Gastroenterology and 10th Pediatric Gastroenterology Meeting, Caracas, Venezuela, September 18-21, 2007

Antroduodenal, Colonic and Anorectal Manometry and Rome III Criteria in Functional GI Disorders, 4th European Paediatric GI Motility Meeting, London, England, October 4-6, 2007

New Insights into Childhood Functional Abdominal Pain and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Chair, National Institutes of Health Sponsored Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 24, 2007

Dyspepsia and Gastroparesis and Motility Disorders, Invited Speaker, Annual NAPSGHAN Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 25-28, 2007

*Physician publications, awards and honors, and presentations and teaching activities represent work completed in 2007 only.