IBD centres in Brazil
8 hospitals with a dedicated service for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Listed alphabetically by city — not ranked.
Belo Horizonte
Hospital Felício Rocho
The hospital’s gastroenterology and hepatology specialty runs an Ambulatório de Doenças do Intestino which it describes in the same line as being aimed especially at inflammatory bowel disease — Crohn’s disease and ulcerative proctocolitis. The specialty publishes its hours: Monday to Thursday, 07:00 to 19:00, and Friday, 07:00 to 18:00.
Blumenau
Hospital Santa Isabel
Hospital Santa Isabel has constituted a dedicated IBD team made up of a gastroenterologist specialised in IBD, a nutritionist and a nurse. The team is called in through an alert in the hospital’s electronic record when an admitted patient needs its assessment, and follows the patient throughout the admission with case discussions and ward visits. The hospital also hosts monthly meetings for patients and families on the last Wednesday of each month, run with the regional branch of the Brazilian Crohn’s and colitis patient association.
1 named clinician
Brasília
Hospital Sírio-Libanês Brasília
The Brasília unit's Núcleo de Doenças Inflamatórias Intestinais was established in 2024 and runs a multidisciplinary IBD clinic on Thursday afternoons, with inpatient care alongside it. Clinical gastroenterologists, gastrointestinal surgeons, coloproctologists, nutrologists, nurses, dietitians and psychologists make up the team, and patients are referred internally to digestive endoscopy, interventional radiology and the medication infusion centre. The unit names a coordinator and a specialist for coloproctology, endoscopy and nutrition each.
4 named clinicians
Porto Alegre
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
The Serviço de Gastroenterologia runs ten named outpatient clinics, one of them for inflammatory bowel disease, alongside clinics for alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the oesophagus, hepatitis and liver transplantation. The service states its purpose as preventing, diagnosing and treating digestive disease, and lists endoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and liver elastography among what it does. It sits on the second floor, room 2033, and is open Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00.
Porto Alegre
Hospital Moinhos de Vento
Hospital Moinhos de Vento’s Ambulatório de Doenças Inflamatórias Intestinais is a multidisciplinary team for outpatients and inpatients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, formed by the gastroenterology service together with the coloproctology service. The team performs diagnostic and therapeutic upper endoscopy, colonoscopy and enteroscopy, and runs clinical research specific to IBD. The clinic sits on the eighth floor of Bloco A, Rua Ramiro Barcelos 910 (rooms 803/805), and sees patients on Fridays from 09:00 to 12:00.
5 named clinicians
Santo André
Hospital e Maternidade Brasil (Rede D’Or)
The IBD service at Hospital e Maternidade Brasil covers diagnosis through to surgery for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, with a multiprofessional team and separate written protocols for emergency, outpatient and inpatient care. Diagnostic work includes laboratory and imaging tests, colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy and endoscopy; treatment runs from dietary change through oral, subcutaneous and intravenous medication to surgery, with an infusion centre on site. In 2025 the hospital states it was certified by the Pan American Crohn's and Colitis Organisation as a centre of excellence in inflammatory bowel disease.
São Paulo
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Einstein names a Centro de Excelência em Doenças Inflamatórias Intestinais among its gastroenterology services, and states that it brings the whole structure for diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease into a single environment.
São Paulo
Hospital Sírio-Libanês
The Núcleo de Doenças Inflamatórias Intestinais was created in 2017 to bring outpatient and inpatient IBD care under one team. It is staffed by clinical gastroenterologists, gastrointestinal surgeons, coloproctologists, nutrologists, nurses, dietitians and psychologists, with a named coordinator. Digestive endoscopy, interventional radiology and a medication infusion centre sit behind it in the same hospital.
1 named clinician
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