Email

javier.monagas@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Program Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

CHRISTUS Children's-Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine
San Antonio, TX, US
Associate Program Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition Fellowship

Addresses

Baylor College of Medicine (Office)

CHRISTUS Children's - Gastroenterology
333 N Santa Rosa St
San Antonio, TX, 78207
United States
Phone: (210) 704-2686
javier.monagas@christushealth.org

Baylor College of Medicine (Clinic)

CHRISTUS Children's - Gastroenterology
333 N Santa Rosa St
San Antonio, TX, 78207
United States
Phone: (210) 704-2686
javier.monagas@christushealth.org

Education

Fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Children's Hospital of New Orleans

06/2011 - New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Residency at Driscoll Children's Hospital, Texas A&M

06/2008 - Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

MD from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Escuela de Medicina Jose Maria Vargas

03/2002 - Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela

Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

07/2022 - San Antonio, Texas, United States

Certifications

Board Certified in Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

American Board of Pediatrics

Board Certified in Pediatrics

American Board of Pediatrics

Texas Medical License

#P8511

Texas Medical Board

Honors & Awards

Young Faculty Investigator Award

Award for research abstract "Rumination Syndrome and Dental Erosion in Children"

Southern Society of Pediatric Research (02/2013)

Bristol Meyer-Squibb for Best Scientific Work

Award for the presentation of abstract "Epidemiological Situation of Dengue in the period 1994-2000 in Santos Michelena County"

XIII National Conference of Infectious Disease Caracas-venezuela (10/2001)

Associate Program Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition Fellowship

BCM (07/2022)

Program Director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition Fellowship BCM San Antonio

(01/2017 - 07/2021)

Professional Interests

• Abdominal Pain
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Endoscopic treatments for obesity in adolescents
• Advance endoscopic procedures
• Feeding problems
• Blood in stools
• Spitting up in infants and children

Websites

Selected Publications

• Monagas J, Suen A, Kolomensky A, Hyman PE.. " Gastrointestinal issues and dental erosions in children. " Clin Pediatr (Phila).. 2013 Nov ; 52 (11) : 1065-6.
  Pubmed PMID: 22984193.
• Firestone Baum C, John A, Srinivasan K, Harrison P, Kolomensky A, Monagas J, Cocjin J, Hyman PE.. " Colon manometry proves that perception of the urge to defecate is present in children with functional constipation who deny sensation. " J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr.. 2013 Jan ; 56 (1) : 19-22.
  Pubmed PMID: 22922371.
• Hyman PE, Monagas J.. " Rectal perceptual hypersensitivity: a biomarker for pediatric irritable bowel syndrome. " J Pediatr.. 2010 Jan ; 156 (1) : 5-7.
  Pubmed PMID: 20006757.

Memberships

North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Member (07/2008)

American Gastroenterology Association

Member (07/2011)

Skills

Endoscopic Procedures

Placement of feeding tubes, gastropexis, gastrojejunostomies, clips, banding, injections, motility catheter placement, working in development of new bariatric endoluminal procedures for adolescents

Languages

Spanish