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Department of Pediatrics
Founded in 1952, the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is the largest research and treatment institute for children in the southeastern United States. With 16 clinical divisions, 17 community programs and several centers, we provide comprehensive academic pediatric care to the children, adolescents, and families of South Florida and the Americas. Young patients come to us from all over the world for both routine and the most complex of physical and mental healthcare delivered with compassion by outstanding pediatric specialists and other skilled medical professionals. Several of our programs have been ranked among the best programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

As part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and affiliated with Jackson Health System, the Department of Pediatrics is integrated into a dynamic academic environment where innovative and effective treatments and cures are discovered. We have a proven track record of excellence including breakthrough work in neonatal care and respiratory disease, the long-term effects of cancer treatment, cardiac risk in patients with HIV, the development of clinical trials in pediatric cancers, obesity prevention, long-term outcomes of fetal surgery, sleep and pulmonary complications of HIV and sickle cell disease, and parent health literacy as a means of improving child health outcomes. Our dedication to research, centered in the Batchelor Children’s Research Institute, transforms lives now and into future generations.

From anxiety to autism, learning to lung disease, cancer to cardiology, prematurity to pityriasis, diabetes to depression, our physician scientists have discovered ways to treat and prevent a wide range of pediatric health challenges.