Email

javier.monagas@bcm.edu

Positions

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

CHSA Pedi-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)

Children's Hospital of San Antonio
333 North 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