Sarah Endicott Barlow, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (1989)
- Residency
- Brown University Medical School - GME (1992), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- New England Medical Center (1998), Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology
Conditions
- Abdominal migraines
- Achalasia
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT)
- Biliary atresia
- Celiac disease
- Childhood obesity
- Chronic abdominal pain (stomach ache)
- Colic
- Colon polyps
- Colorectal cancer (CRC)
- Constipation
- Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS)
- Diarrhea
- Diverticulitis
- Dysphagia (swallowing disorder)
- Encopresis
- Esophageal stricture
- Failure to thrive (FTT)
- Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
- Fecal incontinence
- Feeding disorder (PFD)
- Functional abdominal pain syndrome (FAPS)
- Gastroenteritis (stomache flu)
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
- Glycogen storage disease (GSD)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol)
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Lactose intolerance
- Malabsorption
- Microscopic colitis (lymphocytic colitis or collagenous colitis)
- Nausea and vomiting
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Pediatric H. pylori infection
- Peptic ulcer
- Rumination syndrome (merycism)
Treatments
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Management of obesity in children and adolescents
- NAFLD in children and adolescents
- Population health approaches to child and adolescent obesity
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Publications
Publications
- Development and use of an index for measuring implementation of a weight management program in children in primary care clinics in Texas. Salahuddin M, Barlow SE, Pont SJ, Butte NF, Hoelscher DM BMC Fam Pract 2018 Dec 19 1 191
- Improvement in Primary Care Provider Self-Efficacy and Use of Patient-Centered Counseling To Address Child Overweight and Obesity after Practice-Based Changes: Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study. Barlow SE, Salahuddin M, Butte NF, Hoelscher DM, Pont SJ Child Obes 2018 Aug
- Clinically Actionable Hypercholesterolemia and Hypertriglyceridemia in Children with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Harlow KE, Africa JA, Wells A, Belt PH, Behling CA, Jain AK, Molleston JP, Newton KP, Rosenthal P, Vos MB, Xanthakos SA, Lavine JE, Schwimmer JB J. Pediatr. 2018 07 198 76-83.e2
- Alanine Aminotransferase as a Monitoring Biomarker in Children with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Secondary Analysis Using TONIC Trial Data. Arsik I, Frediani JK, Frezza D, Chen W, Ayer T, Keskinocak P, Jin R, Konomi JV, Barlow SE, Xanthakos SA, Lavine JE, Vos MB Children (Basel) 2018 May 5 6
Books
- Assessment of the Obese Child or Adolescent. In Kushner RF, Bessesen DH, eds. Treatment of the Obese Patient. Barlow SE, Taylor SA, Hastings E, Garland BH. (2014). New York: Springer; 287-304.
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Heart Association; Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in the Young Committee
- North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Society for Pediatric Research
- The Obesity Society
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Awards and Honors
- Jim Wright Lectureship, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2009)
- Pouncey Memorial Lectureship, Ocshner Children’s Health Center, New Orleans, LA (2009)