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Pediatrics

The Department of Pediatrics includes divisions in cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, genetics, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, infectious diseases, nephrology, pulmonology, and allergy/immunology, as well as general academic pediatrics, critical care medicine and newborn medicine. Sub-specialists provide outstanding family-centered care for children of all ages. Research programs include basic science and clinical research on topics such as cancer metastasis, reducing infant mortality, asthma, quality and patient safety, chronic kidney disease and metabolism, and brain tumors. Our residency program and fellowships offer tailored training programs in subspecialty care, community-based pediatrics and clinical research to prepare the world's next generation of pediatric physicians.

News

Skin-to-Skin Contact Associated with Brain Changes in Preterm Infants

September 24, 2025

“Kangaroo care,” or skin-to-skin contact, may be neuroprotective and is associated with neonatal development in areas of the brain involved in emotional regulation in preterm...
NIH Grant Aims for Childhood Vaccine Against HIV

September 18, 2025

A multi-institutional team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators has been awarded a five-year, $20.8 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
The Quest for an HIV Vaccine

August 20, 2025

Along with an international team, Dr. John Moore, has brought biomedicine closer than ever to an HIV vaccine.

Events

Sep 30, 2025
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
Oct 07, 2025
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies