Pediatric Cardiology offers modern, comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients with known or suspected heart disease. We treat patients ranging in age from the unborn fetus to the young adult, and deliver care both in Chapel Hill and in convenient clinics located throughout North Carolina.

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine provides care for infants, children, and adolescents with life-threatening medical and surgical illnesses or injuries requiring admission to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). This service requires multiple subspecialties working together to care for critically ill children.

Pediatric Endocrinology studies and treats diseases and disorders of the glands in children. These endocrine diseases include growth problems; deficiencies or excesses of hormones from the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal or pancreas; disorders of sex differentiation; and diabetes.

Pediatric Gastroenterology specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver and pancreas in children. We perform an extensive range of related procedures, consult on nutrition and gastrointestinal problems, and participate in preparation of children for liver transplantation.

General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (also known as Community Pediatrics) offers comprehensive primary care to children from birth through adolescence both at clinics located in North Carolina Children's Hospital and in private physician offices in the surrounding community. Our medical team also provides comprehensive hospital care to children of all ages admitted to the NC Children's Hospital.

Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism offers diagnosis management and genetic counseling for children and adults with disorders that are known or suspected to be inherited (passed down from a family member), resulting from a change in a person's genetic code. Such disorders include birth defects, chromosomal abnormalities, unexplained mental retardation and inborn errors of metabolism (the process of how substances in cells or tissues are broken down for energy or are synthesized).

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology is a member of the Department of Pediatrics, the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC and the Children's Oncology Group. Its mission is to treat and cure children and adolescents with cancer and blood diseases who live in North Carolina through participation both in national and local treatment protocols.

Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases assists in the diagnosis and management of children with a broad range of immunological diseases and infections. These include known or suspected immune deficiencies, allergic diseases (asthma, allergic rhinitis, drug and insect allergy), rheumatologic (related to muscles, tendons or joints) or autoimmune (immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body) diseases.  Also seen are children with fevers of unclear causes and chronic or recurrent infections. The division has four clinical programs: Allergy/Immunology, Rheumatology/Immunology, ID/Immunology and Peds HIV. The division also coordinates the Pediatric Asthma Program with the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology.

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine provides care for critically ill newborns and premature infants in the Newborn Critical Care Center (NCCC) at the North Carolina Children’s Hospital. The division's Special Infant Care Clinic also provides evaluation of graduates from the NCCC.

Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension provides diagnosis and management of kidney disorders and abnormally high blood pressure, and treatment of end-stage kidney disease in infants, children and adolescents.

Pediatric Pulmonology provides comprehensive outpatient and inpatient clinical services for infants and children with lung problems. Some of the conditions treated in our clinics include chronic cough, chronic wheezing, recurrent pneumonia, airway problems, bronchitis, apnea (where breathing stops temporarily), sleep disorders, and cystic fibrosis.

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