Esther Jacobowitz Israel, MD
Associate Unit Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Director, Inpatient Quality and Safety, QA Chair for Pediatrics
- Departments
- Department of Pediatrics
Specialties
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- Gastroenterology & Nutrition
- Transplant Center
- Pediatric Transplant Surgery
- Liver Transplant
- Clinical Interests
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Liver disease
- Neonatal gastroenterology
- Failure to thrive
- All disorders that affect the liver
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
- Liver transplant
- Locations
- Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Newton: Newton-Wellesley Hospital
- Medical Education
- MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Residency, New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Fellowship, Children's Hospital Boston
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Board Certifications
- Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
- Pediatric Gastroenterology, American Board of Pediatrics
- Foreign Languages
- French
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Patient Age Group
- Pediatric
- Accepting New Patients
- Yes
- Insurances Accepted
- Aetna Health Inc.
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Best Doctors
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
Centene/Celticare
Cigna (PAL #'s)
Cigna/Healthsource NH
Fallon Community HealthCare
ForMost Managed Care
Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
Healthy Start
Humana/Choice Care PPO
Medicaid
Medicare
Neighborhood Health Plan - ACD
Neighborhood Health Plan - PBO
Network Health
OSW - Maine
OSW - New Hampshire
OSW - Rhode Island
Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
Railroad Medicare
Railroad Medicare - ACD
TriCare
Tufts Health Plan
Tufts Medicare Advantage PPO
Unicare
United Healthcare (non-HMO) - ACD
United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
MGH Hotline 10.02.09 Encouraging the active participation of patients in their own health care is an important component of patient safety.
Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114-2696
Phone: 617-726-8705
Fax: 617-724-2710
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