Shands Children's Hospital and the University of Florida College of Medicine offer every subspecialty available in pediatric medicine and surgery. The outstanding quality of care is built on the dedication of our physicians and the other outstanding healthcare professionals who are part of the Shands team.

• Kidney Disorder and Dialysis Center is of the most comprehensive children's kidney center in the state with nationally recognized dialysis and transplant programs.
• Admissions in pediatrics total approximately 9,900 each year. In addition, more than 155,000 children are seen at pediatric clinics.
• The Shands Burn Center is one of only four burn centers in the state of Florida and one of the two Florida centers that treat children with second and third degree burns.
• Children with diabetes attend the Florida Camp for Children and Youth with Diabetes. Each year, these programs help more than 300 youngsters from all over Florida and the southeast learn to live with their diabetes. Diabetes and Endocrinology Program is the first of its kind in the southeast, with clinics that assist patients with diabetes, growth disorders, sexual development problems, thyroid problems and adrenal disorders.
• Flight team members consisting of physicians, neonatal nurse specialists, and respiratory therapists, are a critical component of the ShandsCair flight program. The ShandsCair flight team makes over 320 pediatric transports each year, making our team one of the nation’s busiest.
• Learning Disability Center is a model for the nation, featuring the unique Ross-Mercer Classroom where the skills of education professionals combine with medical diagnosis and treatment.
• Gastroenterologists provide comprehensive care to infants and children with diverse gastrointestinal, liver, and nutrition disorders.
• Infectious disease specialists care for children with rare and life-threatening infections.
• Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatic Heart Disease, and other rheumatological problems are treated by Pediatric Rheumatologists.
• Microneurosurgery techniques at Shands are recognized worldwide. Since 1975 more than 1,000 surgeons have traveled to Shands to learn new techniques and refine their skills in order to perform delicate brain and spinal cord surgery.
• Cardiology/cardiovascular care provided at Shands Children's Hospital is one of seven pediatric programs in the state. More than 3,000 patients are seen each year with approximately 3,500 echo-cardiograms performed. In addition, the program has recently recruited two new interventional cardiologists to further advance the program.
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the first in Florida, treats approximately 800 critically-ill newborns annually. While ten years ago infants weighing less than three pounds had a 10 percent chance of life, whereas infants treated in this unit today have a 90 percent chance of life.
• Vehicle transportation for newborns and children is provided around the clock by the ShandsCair helicopter, a neonatal ground ambulance, and a fixed-wing aircraft.
• Oncology specialists for pediatric patients offer a full spectrum of services for blood problems and cancer in infants, children, and adolescents. They are nationally recognized for their use of immunomagnetic purging procedures to cleanse bone marrow of cancerous cells.
• Pediatrics Intensive Care Unit cares for approximately 1,300 patients annually with a team of specialists trained in Pediatrics, Pediatric Intensive Care, and Pediatric Anesthesia.
• Respiratory disorders including asthma, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, sleep apnea, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia are treated in the Pulmonary and Cystic Fibrosis Center.
• Transplantation programs at Shands include kidney, heart, liver, cornea, bone marrow, and bone for both adults and children. Florida's youngest heart transplant recipient received her new heart thanks to this program.
• X-ray tables, a CAT scanner, IV poles, hospital beds, and a cardiac catheterization table are among the life-like toys used in Child Life Programs, offering therapeutic play programs that help children deal with the apprehensions that surround a hospital stay.
• Unit for Bone Marrow Transplants is a 20-bed intensive care unit devoted to bone marrow transplantation for the treatment of acute and chronic leukemias, aplastic anemia, lymphomas, neuroblastoma, immune deficiencies and sickle cell anemia.
• Quality of life is improved by the excellent care administered by more than 100 physicians and healthcare professionals in the pediatric programs.
• Wilms' tumor, neuroblastoma, Hirschsprung's disease, adrenal tumors, foreign body aspirations, and multiple trauma are all conditions for which University of Florida pediatric surgeons have developed improved diagnostic and treatments methods. A team of fully credentialed pediatric surgical sub-specialists collectively perform 5,313 major operations each year. In addition, patients are treated on an outpatient basis through more than 155,000 clinic visits annually.
• Your support of the Children's Miracle Network to benefit the pediatric programs at Shands Children's Hospital helps these programs remain among the best in the southeast and the nation. Zeroing in on the total needs of the pediatric patient is the mission of the team of healthcare professionals at Shands Children's Hospital.
• The UF Spina Bifida Center is one of several centers in Florida, providing multidisciplinary team care to nearly 150 pediatric patients annually. Patients come from a 35-county area in northern Florida and from several south Georgia counties.

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