The Department of Pediatrics
provides a diverse and extensive spectrum of medical expertise from primary care
to subspecialty services. Currently, there are approximately 140 full-time faculty
in general pediatrics and 16 subspecialty divisions.
The Department offers
a full range of services through its capabilities as a comprehensive pediatric care
center. Services include a multidisciplinary team approach involving physicians,
psychologists, nurses, nutritionists and social workers to treat many diseases including
cystic fibrosis, childhood cancers, diabetes, muscular dystrophy, asthma, sleep
disorders, chronic dialysis, rheumatology and immune deficiencies. The Department
also provides comprehensive medical and rehabilitative services for mentally retarded,
developmentally disabled and birth-injured children in collaboration with the Sparks
Clinics at the
UAB Civitan International Research Center
. Other services include a noted diagnostic and treatment, and cardiovascular surgery,
program for heart disease in infants, children and adolescents, and emergency counseling
for poison incidents through the
Poison Information Center
.
Each year, Department
faculty oversee more than 163,000 outpatient visits, including approximately 60,000
patients seen through the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division. Pediatric faculty
manage more than 9,800 subspecialty and general pediatric inpatient admissions per
year. In addition, the Neonatology Division provides coverage for the
UAB Medical Center
and Children’s Hospital as well as four private, not-for-profit community hospitals.
The Department’s most
recent initiatives include: strengthened Childhood Obesity and Nutritional programs,
creation and development of a Pediatric Deep Sedation program, accreditation of
the
Pediatric
Sleep
Disorders
Center
, the Solid Organ Transplant initiative, the
Juvenile Diabetes Center
initiative, and the Rheumatoid Arthritis initiative.
Sincerely,
Sergio Stagno, MD
Katherine Reynolds Ireland Professor and Chair
UAB Department
of Pediatrics
Physician-in-Chief, Children’s Hospital
