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We're proud to offer exceptional family-centered care, world-class expertise, and the most advanced treatments to infants, children, and adolescents in our community and beyond. We provide the region's greatest depth and breadth of pediatric care through our faculty and collaborators throughout Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. Our programs and clinical research are unmatched anywhere in the New York region. This combination is how we've earned the trust of so many families for all of their care needs. Read on to learn more about our notable achievements in 2024.
Columbia/NYP Establishes Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Consult Team
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia neonatologist Lauren Sanlorenzo, MD, pediatric pulmonologist Alexandra Kass, MD, and pediatric cardiologist Usha S. Krishnan, MD, recently established the BPD Consult Team to provide continuity among specialists who manage the current needs and ongoing care of the infants with respiratory complications associated with BPD.
Celebrating Pediatric Transplant Milestones at Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian
NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital has one of the largest and most successful pediatric heart transplant programs in the world. With nearly four decades of success, many of our heart transplant recipients now have families of their own. Today, surgical teams at NYP/Columbia perform about 25 pediatric heart transplants per year—typically more than any other hospital in the US.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell Named #1 Children’s Hospital in New York by U.S. News & World Report
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has been recognized as the #1 children’s hospital in New York, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 “Best Children’s Hospitals” rankings. This is the 18th year in a row that the Hospital has ranked among the best children’s hospitals in the nation. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital was the only hospital in New York to rank among the top 50 hospitals across all 11 pediatrics specialties evaluated.
Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian Offers A New Heart Valve Replacement Technology for Children with Valve Disease
Children with congenital heart disease have few options for heart valve replacement that don’t require multiple open-heart surgeries. Oliver Barry, MD, a pediatric interventional cardiologist at Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, discusses a new pulmonary valve replacement technology that can expand using minimally invasive techniques, providing the promise of a treatment option that can grow with the child.
Pediatrics Welcomes Families to New Clinical Office at Columbus Circle
At Columbia's new convenient location in Midtown Manhattan, families will find child-friendly waiting and exam rooms, and a range of pediatric subspecialists providing comprehensive care for children. At our 5 Columbus Circle office, children can receive expert care from subspecialists in:
- Allergy
- Breastfeeding Medicine
- Cancer and Blood Disorders
- Cardiology
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Mental Health
- Child Neurology
- Digestive and Liver Disorders
- Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
- Genetics and Inherited Disorders
- Immunodeficiency Disorders
- Kidney and Bladder
- Lung Breathing, and Sleeping Disorders
- Pain Management (ages 10 and Up)
- Rheumatology
Learn more or call 212-304-7500 to make an appointment or referral.
Columbia Adds Expertise in Menkes Disease, a Rare Genetic Condition
Stephen Kaler, MD, who recently joined the Columbia Pediatrics faculty, is a physician-scientist and human geneticist with 30 years of clinical and basic research experience with Menkes disease. This rare condition is caused by variants in a gene (ATP7A) that regulates the body’s ability to metabolize copper, and it primarily affects male infants, who appear healthy until six to eight weeks after birth, when symptoms begin to develop. Dr. Kaler is developing gene therapy for this and other inherited pediatric illnesses and has established a Menkes Disease Clinic at NYP/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
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