The multidisciplinary Washington University Division of Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine at St. Louis Children’s Hospital is a premier academic program, and its commitment to excellence in patient care, teaching and research and is consistently recognized by our inclusion as one of America’s best pulmonary services, according to Parent magazine’s survey and the U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospital ranking.
The division supports an active clinical practice and our faculty and nurse practitioners see over 10,000 outpatient visits at all care locations with approximately one quarter of these visits being new patient referrals and out-patient consultations. In-patient clinical volumes and consultations at St. Louis Children’s Hospital are typically over 7,000 patient-days per year.
Our faculty are nationally prominent, both through publishing manuscripts in high impact journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and through leadership in national societies, academies and foundations. The division has a core of innovative basic, translational and clinical investigators working on both investigator-initiated studies and through multicenter collaborative research networks to further our understanding and treatment of childhood lung diseases and asthma. This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health and other foundations, including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Foundation, as well as through the Pediatric Pulmonary Diseases & Asthma Center of Excellence of the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Children’s Discovery Institute.
For parents and patients
Learn more about our program on the St. Louis Children’s Hospital site.