The Department of Pediatric Medicine at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ensures that patients receive the best quality of subspecialty care available. To achieve this goal, the department’s aim is to equip the clinical staff with the resources and support necessary for offering cutting-edge treatments in a safe, compassionate, family-centered environment.
The Pediatric Medicine staff, in partnership with our colleagues at the University of Tennessee and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, takes a multidisciplinary approach to caring for patients; this involves a host of specialties including anesthesia, critical care medicine, endocrinology, neurology, and quality of life, and rehabilitation (see the listing of Pediatric Medicine services to the left). Recognized internationally for our world-class patient care, the members of the Pediatric Medicine staff at St. Jude are each experts in treating children diagnosed with catastrophic diseases. In collaboration with our research faculty who are engaged in developing clinical trials, experts on the Pediatric Medicine team benefit from state-of-the-art facilities, as well as the latest St. Jude-generated research that support their life-saving work.
The Department of Pediatric Medicine seamlessly aligns with St. Jude research efforts in achieving the hospital’s mission of finding cures and saving the lives of children by providing unsurpassed comprehensive patient care.
Capacity building in pediatric critical care
Applied clinical Informatics, EHR and provider wellbeing
Hypothalamic/pituitary dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors
Pediatric critical care, acute lung injury
Psychiatric effects of cancer and its treatment
Pediatric neurologic and metabolic diseases
Pediatric pain
Novel treatments for children with brain tumors
Pediatric critical care outcomes improvement
Improving the overall outcomes and supportive care of patients during and after oncology treatment.
Diagnosis and treatment of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Onco-critical care; HSCT/immunotherapy patients; long term outcomes of critical care illnesses
Effect of cancer and its treatment on central and peripheral nervous systems
Mechanisms of cancer related symptoms
Improving outcomes for oncology and transplant patients with critical illness.
Pediatric critical care, myocardial protection
Functional limitations among cancer survivors
Patient-oriented studies in nonmalignant hematology
Safety and quality in pediatric anesthesia
Quality management and patient safety, cognitive effects of anesthesia
Regional anesthesia & anesthetic approach in high-risk cases
Improving metabolic outcomes in cancer survivors
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Pulmonology
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Critical Care
Pediatric Pulmonology
Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Pulmonology
Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Nephrology
Department of Pediatric Medicine
MS260, Room C6024
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
FAX: (901) 595-8037
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