Mission: Improving the lives of children through excellence in advocacy, education, research, and clinical care.
Vision: Caring for children, caring for their future.
Welcome to the Department of Pediatrics. Founded in 1943, we are the second largest department in the University of Utah School Of Medicine and one of the largest pediatric departments in the country. There are 310 faculty members in the department with a fairly equal distribution of men and women, and we have the greatest number of tenured female faculty in the School of Medicine.
The department is comprised of 22 medical divisions and programs operating in conjunction with four key enterprises: education, research, clinical, and academic. Divisions provide a full spectrum of specialty and subspecialty pediatric services for children throughout the Mountain West.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has designated University of Utah Health as one of a dozen medical centers in the national Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN), dedicated to finding answers for patients with undiagnosed diseases. ... Read More
PediatricsSome were patients, some were parents, and some were doctors and staff who have cared for the smallest and the sickest babies at University of Utah Hospital. All came together on September 12th 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at University of Utah Hospital. ... Read More
Pediatrics
Researchers at University of Utah Health have developed high-tech tools to uncover the genetic cause of the most difficult to diagnose cases of early childhood seizures.... Read More
Pediatrics,Human Genetics
Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, will join University of Utah Health as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, effective June 4, 2018. Giardino will replace Edward B. Clark, MD who has served in that role since 1996. ... Read More
Pediatrics
Utah will soon be home to one of the only free HIV prevention clinics in the U.S., and it all started with a plucky medical student named Jorgen Madsen. Starting in January, everyone — whether they have insurance or not — will have access through University of Utah Health to a game-changing medication-based HIV prevention strategy known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP), which earned FDA approval in 2012 and has been shown to be more than 90% effective at preventing HIV.... Read More
Pediatrics,Internal Medicine
Kurt Albertine, Ph.D., professor in Pediatrics at University of Utah Health, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).... Read More
Pediatrics
Angelo P. Giardino, MD PhD
University of Utah Medical Group
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
You can donate to an endowed scholarship fund that will be used to foster the development of talented students who share Chris's goal of improving the lives of children.
MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND