As pediatric gastroenterologist Kara Gross Margolis, MD, was beginning her research career, an early opportunity to work with colleagues in the field of psychiatry led her ultimately to subspecialize and develop expertise in brain–gut axis disorders. That early work—devising screening criteria to diagnose gastrointestinal conditions in patients with autism spectrum disorder—has blossomed into a subspeciality in a pediatric community for which families seek her out.
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