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Dr. Anil Darbari is the Medical Director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology / Nutrition and the Feeding Disorders Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. His areas of special interest include feeding disorders, disorders of gastrointestinal motility and other
gastrointestinal disorders, specifically inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and chronic/recurrent abdominal pain in children. Dr. Darbari is also the Director of the Pediatric Gastrointestinal Motility Center. He is also an assistant professor in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Darbari has been the Medical Director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology and Feeding Disorders Program at Kennedy Krieger Institute since September 2003. He has been a full time faculty in the Pediatric Gastroenterology Division of Johns Hopkins Hospital since January 2001. He graduated from Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, India, where he also obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree in Pediatrics. He then worked as Registrar in General Pediatrics in the United Kingdom. His US residency training was in the Case Western Reserve University program at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a full time junior faculty before coming to Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Darbari did his fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition from the Johns Hopkins University. He is board certified in Pediatric Gastroenterology and in Pediatrics.
As the Medical Director of Feeding Disorders Program, Dr. Darbari oversees a multi-disciplinary team of pediatric gastroenterologists, behavior psychologists, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and nutritionists. The program offers various intensity of services ranging from outpatient consults to intensive inpatient services to children with feeding disorders including food refusal and selectivity, failure to thrive, oropharyngeal dysphagia, and feeding intolerance. Such problems can be encountered both in children who are otherwise normal, and in those with congenital or developmental issues.
Dr. Darbari provides specialized services to children with gastrointestinal motility disorders including severe nausea, chronic persistent vomiting, gastroparesis, chronic and recurrent abdominal pain and chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction.
He is a member of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and has developed application of specialized imaging techniques in children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Research Summary:
Dr. Darbari has special interest in finding underlying gastrointestinal motility disorders in children with feeding disorders, and those presenting with feeding intolerance, persistent nausea, vomiting, early satiety and abdominal pain, and those with chronic/ recurrent abdominal pain.
He is also interested in investigating the link between gastrointestinal motility and orthostatic intolerance, including neurally mediated hypotension, postural tachycardia, and chronic fatigue.
Dr. Darbari is also applying new diagnostic techniques of MRI scanning for early diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease in children, and confirmation of the diagnosis of small bowel involvement in Crohn's disease/IBD by such novel procedures as push enteroscopy in children.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Darbari A, Sena L, Argani P, et al. Gadolinium enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Useful Radiological Tool in Diagnosing Pediatric IBD. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases March 2004;10(2):67-72.
Darbari A, Sabin K, Shapiro C, Schwarz K. Epidemiology of primary hepatic malignancies in U.S. children. Hepatology 2003; 38:560-66
Johnson CE, Darbari A, Darbari DS, et al. Measles vaccine immunogenecity and antibody persistence in 12 vs. 15-month old infants. Vaccine, 2000; 18:2411-2415.
Recent Presentations
Darbari A, Gulotta C. Antroduodenal Manometry is a useful screening test in children with feeding problems. To be presented at the World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Paris, July 2004.
Darbari A, Kalloo A, Cuffari C. Push enteroscopy and MRI are effective Diagnostic Tools for Pediatric Proximal Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease. Oral presentation at the Digestive Diseases Week, New Orleans, LA, May 2004.
Darbari A. A Case-based approach to Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children. Invited Oral Presentation at Pri-Med Conference. Washington, DC, October 2003.
Darbari A. Autonomic Gastrointestinal Disorders. Invited Oral Presentation at Topics in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Baltimore, MD, September 2003.
Darbari A. Kallo A. Diagnostic Yield, Safety and Clinical Effectiveness of Push Enteroscopy among Pediatric patients. Oral Presentation at the Digestive Diseases Week, Orlando, FL, May 2003. |
