Biography

Bradley Barth, M.D. is the Division Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Children’s Health℠. He is also a Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Barth earned his medical degree from the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio. He completed his internship and residency at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, and did fellowship training in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University.

Dr. Barth’s clinical and research interests include advanced and therapeutic pediatric endoscopy, pancreatic and biliary diseases, endoscopic treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding and treatment of complex esophageal strictures.

Since joining Children’s Health in 2004, Dr. Barth has helped build a nationally recognized division that includes more than 20 gastroenterologists and hepatologists. The Children’s Health GI program is one of the most advanced and busiest in the nation, delivering care for more than 24,000 patients a year through 17 disease-specific programs.

He also led Children’s Health in creating an advanced and therapeutic endoscopy program. The program is one of a few in the country offering advanced endoscopy procedures for children. Dr. Barth and his colleagues perform around 85 ERCP procedures and 50 endoscopic ultrasounds each year.  

Dr. Barth has won the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) Endoscopy Prize multiple times, and is a fellow of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 

In his spare time, Dr. Barth enjoys playing basketball, grilling and sous vide cooking, travelling with his family and fishing for redfish off the Texas Gulf Coast.

Biography