Charles Vanderpool MD

Dr. Charles Vanderpool is a board certified pediatric gastroenterologist who returned to Indiana University School of Medicine in 2011 following completion of his residency and fellowship training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He currently serves as the Associate Division Chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, the Chair of the Nutrition Support Team, is Medical Director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation Program at Riley Hospital for Children, and is active in the clinical care of children with short bowel syndrome and intestinal failure. His main clinical interest is within pediatric nutrition, including both enteral and parenteral nutritional supplementation. Dr. Vanderpool is participating in multi-center studies regarding alternate lipid emulsions for treatment of children with intestinal failure. Dr. Vanderpool is the primary investigator on a study at Indiana University on parental nutrition strategies to prevent parental nutrition-associated cholestasis in children at risk for intestinal failure.