Welcome!

A Message from the Chair

Dr. Wesley Burks
Dr. Wesley Burks
Welcome to the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine! Although most of us think of children as generally healthy, nearly one of five will have a chronic or complex illness during childhood that will require care by a pediatric subspecialist. With more than 2.3 million children living throughout the state, this is a challenge to say the least.
Read more >>
Judson Van Wyk Visiting Professor

William F. Crowley, Jr., MD

The Department of Pediatrics welcomes Harvard Medical School's William F. Crowley, Jr., MD, as Judson Van Wyk Visiting Professor.
Dr. Crowley is the Daniel K. Podolsky Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the director of the Harvard Reproductive Endocrine Sciences Center and the director of clinical research at Mass General Hospital. Dr. Crowley's lecture is titled "Using Human Disease Models to Define Novel Biology Using Genetics; Examples from Endocrinology." He will be speaking at 8 a.m. on Thursday, May 16.

Pediatrics Tweets