Subspecialties
Pediatric-specific subspecialties at Children's Hospital of Richmond:
- Allergy/Immunology
- Cardiology
- Critical Care
- Developmental Pediatrics
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Diseases
- HIV/AIDS; Neonatology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology/Nutrition
- Genetics
- Neurology
- Nephrology
- Pulmonology/Cystic Fibrosis
- Rheumatology
Additional Subspecialties
Pediatric and non-pediatric subspecialties services are provided at VCU Children's, Children's Hospital and at satellite practice sites. These services include:
- Audiology
- Burn
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Otolaryngology
- Occupational Therapy
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- otolaryngology
- Neurosurgery
- Radiology
- Rehabilitation
- Surgery
- Urology
- Pedodontics
- Speech Therapy
Emergency Medicine
Pediatric residents, faculty and nurse practitoners care for serious illness and trauma in the Child and Adolescent Emergency Department. This continually updated, dynamic emergency unit is designed for the rapid assessment and treatment of patients needing urgent care, and for the care of other seriously ill patients. ED faculty include physicians from the Division of General Pediatrics and Emergency Care. The Pediatric Emergency Department includes the Virginia Poison Center, which has a full-time staff to answer all patient calls, and the Child Protection Team to orchestrate child abuse investigations.
**A NEW Pediatric Emergency Room is scheduled to open in the fall of 2010!