Community Resources
We know how that starting a new medication or hearing a diagnosis can be difficult. Please click on a button below to show the community resource links for each disease-specific service that relates to you. You'll find links to more information about your diagnosis, helpful tips from the health system and national and local support groups. When you're on service with us, you are part of a community that is here to help, listen and support.
- UPMC Digestive Disorders Center
- American College of Gastroenterology
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
- Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Facebook support group
- Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Life Facebook support group
- IBD Connect: A Support Network For Those Suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders resources
GASTROENTEROLOGY RESOURCES
- myUPMC
- Bowel Resection
- Cow's Milk Sensitivity in Babies
- Cerebral Palsy
- Crohn's Disease
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Dysphagia
- Esophageal Cancer
- Failure to thrive
- Gastric Cancer
- Gastroparesis
- GERD
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Living with a feeding tube
- Oral Cancer (Head and Neck CA)
- Oral Cavity, Pharyngeal and Laryngeal Cancer
- Pancreatitis/Pancreatic Cancer
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Short Bowel Syndrome
- Small Intestine Cancer
- Ulcerative Colitis
- UPMC Center for Intestinal Health and Nutrition Support
- American Cancer Society - Nutrition for People with Cancer
- American College of Gastroenterology - Parental & Enteral Nutrition Overview
- American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN)
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
- Enteral nutrition resources: tubefed.com by Avanos
- Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation
- Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation Facebook Support Group
- Kangaroo™ Joey Enteral Feeding Pump videos
- National Organization of Rare Diseases (NORD)
- The Oley Foundation
- Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
NUTRITION RESOURCES
- UPMC Orthopaedics
- Ortho Info
ORTHOPAEDICS RESOURCES
- UPMC Transplant Resources
- UPMC Transplant Services Support Group
- UPMC Children's Hospital Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program
- UPMC Children's Hospital Heart and Lung Transplantation
- UPMC Children's Hospital Liver Transplantation
- Blood and Marrow Transplant (UPMC general info)
- Blood and Marrow Transplant (UPMC pediatric)
- Intestinal (UPMC general info)
- Intestinal (UPMC pediatric)
- American Heart Association
- American Liver Association
- American Lung Association (general info)
- American Lung Association - Lung support groups
- Boomer Esiason Foundation - Cystic Fibrosis Resources
- Cirrhosis, Nash, Fatty Liver Diagnosis Thru Transplantation Facebook group
- Heart Transplant Support Group Facebook
- Lung Transplantation Facebook support group
- National Heart, Lung and Blood institute - Blood and Marrow Transplant
- National Kidney Foundation - Transplantation resources
- National Kidney Center - Kidney Community
- Pancreatic Cancer Awareness & Facebook Support Group
- Transplant Survivor's Facebook support group
- United Network for Organ Sharing - Transplant Living