Department of Pediatrics

Mission and Goals

The West Virginia University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics serves as the premiere site of pediatric care within West Virginia and the surrounding region. The Department of Pediatrics, in collaboration with West Virginia University Children’s Hospital, forms a network of outreach services to referring providers, children and their families.

Our faculty, staff and infrastructure are dedicated to serving infants, children, and adolescents and their families. We create an environment that promotes healthy development, provides reassurance and comfort, fosters healing, and enables our young patients to maintain a primary focus on their lives as children and students rather than on their disease or impairment. By educating both the current and future generations of child health providers, we promote the development of excellent clinical skills, humanistic qualities, and commitment to professionalism. Our research efforts are designed to advance scientific knowledge, provide state-of-the-art care, and serve as a national model for health promotion, disease prevention, and health care delivery to rural children.

The Department of Pediatrics includes 16 clinical and research Divisions with approximately 45 faculty members. Each section is headed by pediatric board certified sub-specialists. Besides clinical care and teaching, our faculty are involved in research and national education efforts.

The West Virginia University Children’s Hospital includes a pediatric and adolescent ward with 30 beds, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with 19 beds, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with 42 beds and a suite of 25 labor-delivery-post-partum rooms for the mother and infant. A playroom, all-weather playground, and teen-room facilitate the rehabilitation of our young patients.

At the Children’s Ambulatory Clinic located in the Physician Office Center, our physicians and staff see approximately 40,000 patient visits representing both primary care and specialty visits.