Robert N. Baldassano MD

Robert N. Baldassano, MD, is a board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist and director of the Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He specializes in diagnosing and treating children with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and is actively researching new treatments for these gastrointestinal disorders. Dr. Baldassano earned his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, and his medical degree from the College of Medicine at SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, NY. He completed his pediatric residency training at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, then served two-year terms as a clinical fellow, then a research fellow in gastroenterology at CHOP.

After his intensive training, Dr. Baldassano worked at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, for several years. In 1996, he returned to CHOP as a senior pediatric gastroenterologist and director of CHOP’s Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Since then, Dr. Baldassano has continued his clinical and research work with children who have inflammatory bowel diseases. He served as associate medical director of CHOP’s Clinical Research Institute for five years. Currently, Dr. Baldassano also holds the titles of Colman Family Chair in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease, medical director of the CHOP Specialty Care Center in Abington, PA, and co-director of the Penn/CHOP Microbiome Program.