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US News & World Report Ranks UVA Neonatology 8 Years Running

On Tuesday, June 15th, US News and World Report announced the results of their Best Children’s Hospital rankings. For the 8th year in a row, the Neonatology program at the…

UVA’s Heart Failure & Transplant Program

By Thomas L'Ecuyer, MD, Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiology Q: Please briefly summarize your program. A: UVA has had a pediatric heart failure and transplant program for many years. In…

Brief Updates on Epidemiology, Variants, Vaccines, and More…

by Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, Division Head of Pediatric Infectious Disease The pandemic and children. We are well into our second year of the pandemic and over 3.94 million children to…

UVA Children’s Strategic Plan Updates: June 2021

by Jim Nataro, MD, PhD, MBA, FAAP As many of you know, it is an exciting time for us at UVA Children's!  There are a lot of changes going on…

Virtual Observership in Pediatrics (VOP) Program

by Dr. Debbie—Ann Shirley and Dr. Sarah Boggs, VOP organizers This spring, several faculty members within the Department of Pediatrics worked together to create an initiative called the Virtual Observership…

COVID-19 Corner: April 2021 Updates

by Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, Division Head of Pediatric Infectious Disease COVID-19 vaccines and TTS. Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS, is a rare syndrome characterized by thrombosis (often cerebral or…