Frank DiPaola, MD

Biography

Frank DiPaola, MD, provides care to children with both short-term and long-term liver conditions. He is board-certified in pediatric gastroenterology and pediatric transplant hepatology.

After graduating from medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he completed a residency in pediatrics at the Monroe Carell Junior Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, followed by sequential fellowships in pediatric gastroenterology and pediatric transplant hepatology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Before he arrived at UVA, Dr. DiPaola was a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan, where he served as ambulatory care clinical chief of pediatric medical specialties and medical director of the pediatric specialties ambulatory care unit at Mott Children's Hospital.

As a leader at UVA Health Children's, he has grown and expanded the range of liver treatments available to children in Virginia. By helping to grow UVA Health's living donor program, Dr. DiPaola has helped more children get life-saving liver transplants. As a national leader in living donor liver transplants, and a member of the 16-center Starzl Network for Excellence in Pediatric Liver Transplant, UVA Health Children's serves children from all of Virginia, as well as surrounding states.