The Department of Pediatrics is composed of 220 faculty members at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), 70 faculty members at Women's and Children's Hospital at Los Angeles County Hospital (LAC+USC) and four faculty members at the College Health facility on University Park Campus. These faculty and their programs provide a broad range of clinical, educational and research programs to advance child health care and academic pediatrics.
The Department is comprised of two distinct programs that interrelate on an educational, clinical and scientific level, but maintain separate divisional administration (except for neonatology) and unique identities. Although they have a common mission, the goals and objectives of each component are focused and appropriate to their facilities and opportunities.
At CHLA, the emphasis is on research, tertiary clinical services and educational programs that are aimed at the development of academic pediatricians and pediatric community leaders. The faculty is large (325 faculty members, including members of other departments), highly specialized and covers a broad range of competencies. There are four Centers at CHLA, representing large-volume, multidisciplinary programs of national prominence. They are: Heart, Cancer and Blood Diseases, Orthopedics and Endocrinology, and Diabetes and Metabolism.
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