Department: Pediatrics
CONTACTS
Phone: (650) 498-8216
Office: Center for Academic Medicine, 4th Floor, Section 454, 453 Quarry Road, Palo Alto, CA 94305
Email: peds-education@stanford.edu
Website: pediatrics.stanford.edu
DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW
The Department of Pediatrics in the Stanford University School of Medicine is committed to advancing the health of infants, children, and adolescents through innovative medical care, research, training, and advocacy. With over 400 pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, our department is one of the largest in the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Ranked among the top in the nation by US News and World Report, we attract medical students, interns, residents, and postdoctoral fellows from around the world by:
Offering broad-based training in general pediatrics, critical care and pediatric subspecialties within a variety of ambulatory, inpatient and community settings. Tightly integrated with our educational activities, these programs provide hands-on learning to equip our graduates with the skills they'll need as future advocates of children's health.
Challenging trainees to explore and develop their interests through basic science, clinical and community-based research.
Embracing a social responsibility ethic that extends health care services and expertise through community partnerships, advocacy, advocacy training, and policy research.
In partnership with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford Children's Health and other hospital partners and affiliations, our programs and services offer state-of-the-art primary and specialty care. Our researchers and clinicians collaborate across the bench-to-bedside-to-backyard continuum, transforming their discoveries into the most effective diagnostics, treatments and prevention therapies available today.
RESEARCH
The goal of our Department's research is to improve the health of children. Our researchers focus on innovation and the development of new strategies for maintaining health, and preventing and curing diseases. We exploit new discoveries at all levels of biologic organization, from the molecule to international populations.
Our bench-bedside-backyard approach has profound impact on how health care professionals, health policy experts, and society approaches the health of our nation's children.
View our Faculty Labs who host Postdoctoral Scholars and Graduate Students.
EDUCATION
Ranked among the top in the nation, the Department of Pediatrics attracts medical students, interns, residents and postdoctoral fellows from around the world. The department's programs offer a range of training opportunities in general pediatrics, critical care and pediatric subspecialties-all within a variety of ambulatory, inpatient and community settings. Moreover, while teaching the skills required by tomorrow's physician leaders, our programs challenge trainees to explore and develop their interests through basic science, clinical and community-based research.
Formal training opportunities are available for High School Students, Medical Students, Pediatrics Residents, Clinical Fellows, and Postdoctoral Research Trainees. Department faculty also participate in numerous interdisciplinary training programs located throughout the Stanford School of Medicine.