Department of Pediatrics

D. Brent Polk, M.D., Chair

With 167 faculty members, Pediatrics is the largest clinical department of the Keck Medical Center of USC . Its divisions include:

  • Adolescent medicine
  • Cardiology
  • Clinical immunology and allergy
  • Endocrinology and metabolism
  • Emergency and transport medicine
  • Gastroenterology and nutrition
  • General pediatrics
  • Hematology/oncology
  • Infectious disease
  • Medical genetics
  • Neonatology
  • Nephrology
  • Pulmonology
  • Research immunology/bone marrow transplantation
  • Rheumatology

USC faculty pediatricians see private patients at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), which is consistently ranked among the top five pediatric facilities in the country by U.S. News & World Report. At CHLA, USC physicians staff the only Level I pediatric trauma unit in Los Angeles County.

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