Stork and Cradle

With a rare combination of board certification in pediatric gastroenterology and a PhD in nutrition, Dr. Neal LeLeiko is an authority on the role of nutritional therapy as a component of treatment for children and adolescents with IBD and other digestive disorders. Dr. LeLeiko joined NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital as Director of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Program and as an Attending Physician. He joined the Columbia University faculty in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases as a Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. LeLeiko comes from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he was Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Before that he served as Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City for 23 years.

Dr. Ali Andre Mencin, a general pediatric gastroenterologist, is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at NewYork-Presbyterian & Columbia University Irving Medical Center as well as the Director of the Pediatric Fatty Liver Clinic and Pediatric Endoscopy at Columbia. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia, and is recognized as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor and a New York Super Doctor. Dr. Mencin sees children with a range of digestive diseases including fatty liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, reflux, abdominal pain, constipation, cyclic vomiting syndrome, feeding difficulties, and polyposis syndromes.

Dr. Anju Wagh isa Board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine attending at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York - New York Presbyterian with 20+ years of experience and also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (in Emergency Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Waghgraduated from B.J. Medical College in India before completing her Pediatric residency from North Shore University Hospital - Cornell Medical Center and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Bellevue HospitalCenter- NYU Medical Center. She isactively involved in resident and fellow education and alsoruns multiple workshops to teach procedural skills to both residents and fellows.