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Dr. Anders Dahlstrom, MD, PhD
Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Dr. Anders Dahlstrom is a pediatric gastroenterologist trained at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. His doctoral thesis and more than 20 published papers center on nutrition and digestive health in children.
- Pediatric gastroenterology
- Pediatric nutrition

- Specialty
- Pediatric gastroenterology
- Doctorate
- PhD, Karolinska Institutet, 1988
- License
- California physician since 1993
- Research
- More than 20 papers indexed in PubMed, 1985 to 2000
About Dr. Dahlstrom
Dr. Anders Dahlstrom, MD, PhD, is a pediatric gastroenterologist whose work centers on pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition. He has been licensed as a physician and surgeon in California since 1993.
He earned his medical degree at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and completed a gastroenterology fellowship at UCLA. In 1988 he completed his PhD at the Karolinska Institutet with a thesis on long-term intravenous nutrition in children.
His research, published from 1985 to 2000 and largely from the Department of Pediatrics at Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, covers nutrition in children who depend on intravenous feeding, chronic diarrhea in infants, gastroesophageal reflux and H. pylori infection in children.
He co-authored a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a bovine immunoglobulin milk concentrate for E. coli diarrhea in children, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology in 2000.
Dr. Dahlstrom is a member of the Physician's Choice Scientific Advisory Board.
Training and credentials
- Doctor of Medicine (MD)Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- Fellowship, GastroenterologyUCLA Medical Center
- 1988Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- 1993Physician and surgeon licenseMedical Board of California
Selected research
- Nutritional status in children receiving home parenteral nutritionThe Journal of Pediatrics, 1985. First author.
- Lipid tolerance in children receiving long-term parenteral nutrition: a biochemical and immunologic studyThe Journal of Pediatrics, 1988. First author.
- Low blood and plasma carnitine levels in children receiving long-term parenteral nutritionJournal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 1990. First author.
- Oral IgA-IgG treatment of chronic non-specific diarrhoea in infants and childrenActa Paediatrica, 1996
- Evaluation of serology, 13C-urea breath test, and polymerase chain reaction of stool samples to detect Helicobacter pylori in Bangladeshi childrenJournal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 1999
- Treatment of enterotoxigenic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-induced diarrhoea in children with bovine immunoglobulin milk concentrateScandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2000
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- Physician's Choice: https://physicianschoice.com/pages/physicians-choice-scientific-advisory-board
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Facts on this page were checked against the sources listed above on October 21, 2026.





