CHARLESTON, S.C. (Feb. 17, 2026) – The MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital has officially launched the MUSC Advanced Pediatric Endoscopy Program and Pancreas Center. The program expands access to specialized, minimally invasive care for children and adolescents with complex pancreaticobiliary and gastrointestinal conditions.
This program is led by Sherif Ibrahim, M.D., director of endoscopy at the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. Ibrahim is an advanced endoscopist with expertise in both adult and pediatric care, specializing in pancreaticobiliary diseases and complex interventional endoscopic procedures.
His clinical focus includes endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound–guided interventions and therapeutic endoscopy. He holds joint clinical appointments in the departments of Pediatrics and Medicine and provides care across the lifespan.
The MUSC Pancreas Center offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluation and management of acute and chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic fluid collections, genetic and metabolic pancreatic disorders and complex biliary disease. Services include therapeutic ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound–guided interventions, pancreaticobiliary stenting and endoscopic management of strictures, stones and leaks. Care is delivered through close collaboration across pediatric gastroenterology, interventional endoscopy, pediatric surgery, radiology, nutrition, pain management, genetics and social work, ensuring coordinated and family-centered care.
Ibrahim joined MUSC in October, strengthening the team with advanced training in gastroenterology and endoscopy, along with a robust background in clinical research. He received his medical degree from West Virginia University, completed his residency at the University of Louisville and completed gastroenterology fellowship training at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He went on to complete a combined adult and pediatric advanced endoscopy fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in San Antonio.
Ibrahim serves as principal investigator on clinical trials in ERCP and holds certificates in translational research and global health. He has also participated in international medical missions to Honduras and Fiji. He is an active member of the American Gastroenterological Association; American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; and North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.
“The MUSC Pediatric Advanced Endoscopy Program and Pancreas Center expands access to advanced, minimally invasive options for children and families throughout our region,” said Ben Kuhn, D.O., division chief and professor of pediatric gastroenterology at MUSC. “This program supports improved outcomes through coordinated, high-quality care delivered close to home.”
As the program’s clinical leader, Ibrahim emphasized the importance of collaboration in delivering highly specialized care. “I am honored to lead this multidisciplinary team,” he said. “By building a collaborative program like this, we can provide specialized, evidence-based, patient-centered care for children with complex pancreatic and gastrointestinal conditions throughout South Carolina and the Southeast, using minimally invasive techniques whenever possible.”
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About MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s PavilionThe MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital (SJCH) consists of 250 beds and opened in February 2020 as a replacement facility for the MUSC Children’s Hospital built in the late 1980s and formerly located on Ashley Avenue. More than 200 care team members, MUSC leaders, administrators and family and patient representatives were instrumental in the concept, design and building of this facility. By providing the most advanced pediatric care possible in more than 26 specialty areas, in person or through a robust telehealth network, SJCH includes a Level 1 trauma center and Emergency Department, the state’s only pediatric burn center and solid-organ and bone marrow transplant programs, the state’s largest Level 4 neonatal intensive care unit, an advanced maternal fetal medicine center and a top-2 ranked U.S. News & World Report children’s Cardiology & Heart Surgery program, which functions through a nationally unique statewide collaboration of pediatric heart surgeons and cardiologists.
Housed within the SJCH, the Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion (PTWP) seamlessly integrates children’s care and obstetrical services, thereby enhancing safety and improving outcomes in high-risk pregnancies. We understand that everyone plans for a healthy, normal birth, and for those who have that outcome, we want them to enjoy our top-notch labor and delivery care. Not all families have this opportunity, and they, too, deserve a place of compassion, expertise and excellent care. Working collaboratively with the advanced maternal fetal care center for families expecting babies with complex congenital birth defects and medical problems, PTWP care providers are one of only a handful of teams in the country able to offer couplet-care rooms, where newborns and mothers can recover together in an intensive-care setting.
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