Jocelyn Silvester, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Silvester is the Co-Director of the Celiac Disease Program and an attending physician in Gastroenterology at the Boston Children’s Hospital. Additionally she has worked as an assistant professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School for 5 years. Dr. Sylvester completed her PhD in Biology at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, prior to studying medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She completed her residency at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada and her Fellowship in Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Sylvester continues to work as a general pediatrician in remote regions of Northern Canada as well as at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her research interests include the diagnosis and management of celiac disease.