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Children’s Health
Physician-researchers at the University of Minnesota have performed a number of firsts in pediatric medicine—including the world’s first open-heart surgery in a child, pediatric bone marrow transplant, and pediatric kidney biopsy—that have made a lasting difference for families in Minnesota and around the world.
That legacy continues today. In 2009, we were among 11 national sites to test a device that keeps the heart pumping while a child awaits a transplant—in some cases, allowing the heart to heal itself. In 2007, we were the first to use a bone marrow and cord-blood transplant to treat a devastating and usually fatal skin disease.
Besides developing acclaimed programs in areas such as pediatric gastroenterology and rheumatology, cystic fibrosis, childhood and adolescent depression, childhood cancer, and pediatric global health, we train more than two-thirds of the pediatricians in our state and partner with leading public health researchers who apply evidence-based prevention strategies to combat childhood diseases.
We are now building a new state-of-the-art facility for our University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital that will consolidate in one location more than 50 specialty services for mothers and children and feature inviting, family-focused space.
As Minnesota’s only children’s hospital connected to an academic medical center, we not only deliver the latest innovations in care, we also create them. Our new facility will catalyze collaboration among children’s health experts across the University—and it will help us attract other top pediatric scientists.
Because of your support, we are accelerating the pace of research aimed at healing children who are facing life-threatening illnesses today and finding ways to prevent childhood diseases forever.
