“To promote the health, healthcare, and well-being of all children and adolescents by integrating superior teaching, optimal clinical care, meaningful research and effective advocacy.”

About the Division

The Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine offers comprehensive general pediatric care to children from birth through adolescence at the new North Carolina Children’s Hospital in Chapel Hill, NC.  Comprised of twenty-three pediatricians, one nurse practitioner, and a PhD specialist in health behavior and injury prevention, our division is active in patient care, teaching, advocacy, and research.  We are responsible for the medical care of children in the newborn nursery, the inpatient hospital setting, the outpatient clinic (including well child care) and the pediatric emergency department.  We also staff the child abuse call system through the Beacon program.  The Division is linked to the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center through three faculty.  The Division is also linked with the Child Medical Evaluation Program, a statewide program for diagnosing child abuse.

The pediatric clinic provides full primary care services, but also has a specific constipation clinic and a nutritional disorder clinic (which focuses on children with obesity and failure to thrive).  Behavior specialists and an adolescent specialist see patients in our clinic as well.  We have also recently introduced a referral diagnostic clinic for complex patients without clear subspecialty problems.