Physician Investigator (Cl) Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Program, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School

Associate Pediatrician Pediatrics-Pediatric Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD Univ. Mass. Worc. M.S. 2005

carcinoma lobular; crohn's disease; hamartoma; ileal diseases; ileum; inflammatory bowel diseases; neoplasm recurrence local; pediatric inflammatory bowel disease; ulcerative colitis Dr. Jess Kaplan is an attending physician in the Department of Pediatrics and a Pediatric Gastroenterologist at MassGeneral Hospital for Children. He completed both his residency in pediatrics (2008) and fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition (2011) at MassGeneral Hospital for Children.  Dr. Kaplan's clinical interests include inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and other immune-mediated and general gastrointestinal disorders.  He sees patients in the Pediatric IBD Program at MGH, MGH West and at Newton Wellesley Hospital. Dr. Kaplan serves as the clinical director of the Pediatric IBD Program and director of IBD Clinical trials at MGHfC, where he conducts clinical and translational research and leads quality improvement initiatives. He has a strong interest in dietary management of IBD and is the clinical lead of the nutritional therapy in IBD program. Dr. Kaplan also leads the Pediatric fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) program at MGHfC.