About Cincinnati Children's

University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics

Cincinnati Children's Burnet Campus.

The University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics consists entirely of staff members from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, one of the nation’s leading pediatric research and teaching institutions. U.S. News & World Report ranked us No. 3 in the nation in the 2019 list of best medical schools for pediatrics.

The department includes Cincinnati Children’s in-house physicians, researchers and other individuals who hold academic appointments at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Margaret K. Hostetter, MD, chairs the Department of Pediatrics and directs the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation. The foundation is the umbrella organization under which the Department of Pediatrics stands.

Other Affiliated UC Departments

Although the majority of our physicians and researchers are members of the UC Department of Pediatrics, they may hold either primary or secondary appointments in other departments such as:

- Allied Health
- Anesthesia
- Biomedical Engineering
- Communication Disorders
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Environmental Health
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Quantitative Analysis
- Radiology
- Social Work
- Surgery