The Department of Pediatrics is proud to announce our 2025 Pediatric Residency Program awardees.

Assistant Professor Julia Hudnut-Tanabe, MD, is the recipient of the first annual M. Douglas Jones, Jr., MD Faculty Educator Award, announced at the inaugural M. Douglas Jones, Jr., MD Lectureship in Medical Education on March 14, 2025.

Researchers work to untangle youth-onset type 2 diabetes to find better treatments for the aggressive form of the disease.

We are pleased to announce the release of the first Farley-Kempe Policy Brief on Child Safety Online, focusing on the critical issue of Age Verification.

Jamie Feinstein, MD, MPH, and Lucas Orth, PharmD, collaborate on research to manage and improve polypharmacy in children with complex medical conditions.

Jenny Reese, MD, a professor and a long-standing, integral member of our institution, will be stepping down from her position as head of the Section of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. Effective September 1, 2025, David Scudamore, MD, associate professor of clinical practice, will assume the role of interim section head for pediatric hospital medicine.

The Colorado Child Health Research Institute (CCHRI) announced the recipients of the Research and Innovation Scholar Awards (RISA) which support early-stage child health investigators who have demonstrated outstanding potential for an academic research career. The CCHRI also recognized recipients of CCHRI Pilot Grant Awards, made possible by generous funding from the Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation.

Dan Wood, MD, co-led Bridging the Gap, a conference to educate providers across the CU Anschutz Medical Campus on topics around transition of care.

Jessica Jack, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the CU School of Medicine, leads a team investigating the effectiveness of combining routine vaccinations with dental visits.

David Fleischer, MD, explains why the new peanut patch, which is moving toward FDA approval, is a positive step for early intervention.

The Gates Grubstake Fund serves as a critical launchpad that enables investigators to accelerate the most promising ideas in cell and gene therapy and regenerative medicine.

Chronic stress and insomnia are interlinked, negatively affecting sleep and physical and mental health. Treating the underlying cause is crucial.

When sleep troubles become chronic, getting to the root of the problem and treating it with expert help when necessary is crucial to a person's health.

Christopher Stille, MD, has spent his 30-year career improving care for children with special health care needs and their families.

A team of CU researchers led by Stephen Scott, MD, MPH, and Sarah Brewer, PhD, MPA, received funding from PCORI to study the effectiveness of youth advisory boards.

The CU School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant program is ranked No. 3 in the country in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings released Tuesday.

New research at the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) aims to establish safe oral antibiotic doses for infants, potentially reducing hospital stays and improving care for newborns with infections.

Discover how co-sleeping can increase the risk of infant deaths and learn about other evidence-based risk factors, including some that parents can control.

First of its Kind Study Identifies Metabolic Defects in Dravet Syndrome

Cases of sextortion - financial blackmail of teen boys - are increasing. Here's how families can stay safe online and protect teen mental health.

With the first pediatric death from measles in the United States in two decades, a CU Anschutz expert highlights risks, causes and vaccines.

Voting for U.S. News & World Report Hospitals Ranking

The University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Kids in Care Settings (KICS) Clinic exclusively serves children in out-of-home placement.

University of Colorado Pediatric Residency Program announces the 2026–27 Pediatric Chief Residents.

Rett Syndrome in males is rare, but researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine are examining how families experience the challenging diagnosis.

Research at CCTSI advances new CF drug, ALYFTREK, improving treatment and survival rates for children with cystic fibrosis.

David Schwartz, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Immunology, has been named associate dean for translational sciences at the CU School of Medicine.

The buzz is growing about an increase of human metapneumovirus cases in China, but Adriana Weinberg, MD, says the news is no cause for alarm.

Vaccines and values: When you’re having a tough conversation about medicine, don’t just pile on evidence − listen to someone’s ‘moral foundations’

Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano, PhD, MPH, uses her lived experiences to guide researchers in creating meaningful, culturally relevant studies

Mónica Pérez Jolles, MA, PhD, received research project funding for her work on social determinants of health and the critical role of referral follow-through.

Dr. Amanda “Bird” Gilmartin and Erin Baker-Ojeda both support children and families involved in the child welfare system —just in different ways. Dr. Gilmartin, who previously participated on the Executive Committee of AAP’s Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (COCAN), serves as the Medical Director of the Kids in Care Settings (KICS) Clinic, which exclusively provides healthcare to children and youth in foster or kinship care.

Christian Mosimann, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics, is corresponding author of a research article published June 5 by Science Advances that describes a new state-of-the-art in creating transgenic zebrafish for biomedical research. Robert L. Lalonde, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Christian’s lab, is first author, and Alexa Burger, PhD, research associate professor of pediatrics, is an expert in zebrafish genome editing contributing to this decade-spanning effort. Four colleagues from our school are co-authors. The lab contributed the cover art for the issue.

The Kempe Center, the world’s first academic center dedicated to child abuse prevention and treatment, is celebrating the 100th anniversary of international children’s rights by signing the 2024 Geneva Declaration on Children's Rights.

The latest CU Anschutz lecture series 'Transforming Healthcare' featured leading experts in the realm of immunotherapy, where new treatments are using the body's own cells to treat disease.

The Department of Pediatrics is excited to announce that Jason Espinoza, MD, will take on the position of Residency Program Director starting April 1, 2025.

Young people with diabetes may have a significantly higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life, according to researchers at CU Anschutz.

Three CU Department of Pediatrics faculty members have been named Distinguished Professors, CU’s highest honor for faculty across the system’s four campuses.

A new chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell trial launched through Gates Institute at CU Anschutz packages two CARs in one treatment. The first-in-human study will enroll pediatric and young adult patients with a subtype of leukemia at Children’s Hospital Colorado to test an engineered white blood cell that targets two markers commonly found on leukemia cell surfaces.

The Department of Pediatrics, Colorado Child Health Research Institute (CCHRI) and Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS) recently hosted the inaugural Pediatric Research Day on October 30 in the Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building.

CU researchers Carmelle Wallace, MD, MPH, and Richard Krugman, MD, are exploring the connection between obesity and childhood trauma.

Signs of milk allergies in babies and children can be difficult to identify. New research and treatments are helping to ensure better care and nutrition.

The CU School of Medicine gave 52 awards to preceptors who teach medical students as part of the school’s longitudinal integrated clerkship programs.

A CU Anschutz team provides researchers worldwide with the means to apply new pediatric sepsis criteria on their own to electronic health record data.

When communicating about vaccines, it's not just the facts that matter, says ACCORDS researchers Sean O'Leary, MD, MPH and David Higgins, MD, MPH.

We are delighted to announce Nancy Krebs, MD, MS, professor, Section of Nutrition, has been named a 2024 Goalkeepers Champion by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will be honored later this month in New York City. This year marks the eighth anniversary of Goalkeepers, with the focus of Nutrition: Innovations to ensure global health and nourishment in a rapidly warming world.

CU Cancer Center leader Lia Gore, MD, led the first clinical trial of immunotherapy drug blinatumomab for B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Ann Skelton, Chair of U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, to Visit Anschutz for 100th Anniversary of International Children’s Rights

Diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 3, James Montez has discerning tastes in hospitals and sandwiches. At CU Anschutz, both are top-notch.

An attending physician at Children’s Hospital Colorado Child Health Clinic, Lisa DeCamp [associate professor of pediatrics], said illnesses are expected to spike as students head back to school and likely again in the winter. Diseases that DeCamp expects to see in October and November are RSV and the flu, among other respiratory viruses. Then in the winter, she’s anticipating another spike in COVID.