Our mission is to protect and ensure the health and well-being of all children.
Small Patients, Big Impact
The Department of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to advancing the field of pediatrics through patient services, research, education, and advocacy. We are committed to providing multi-disciplinary family-centered care with respect, compassion and the highest standards of excellence.
Rutgers Health researchers will enroll primary or secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (p-MS) patients to see if an engineered immune cell therapy can halt the progression of the autoimmune disease.
The faculty and staff in the Department of Pediatrics conduct clinical, research, educational and outreach activities which directly and indirectly impact the lives of children and their families in central New Jersey, throughout the state and regionally.
Vikas Dharnidharka, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Academic Programs
Our outstanding residency and fellowship programs produce excellent pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, some of whom choose to stay and practice in New Jersey. They become part of a critical workforce in the provision of child health in New Jersey.
The department has the only neonatology, pediatric critical care, and pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship programs in the state.
Some of our trainees go on to assume faculty positions and leadership roles in academic medicine at our own institution as well as other institutions across the country. The department participates in many community-based outreach activities, patient education programs and continuing medical education programs.
Our excellence in research has contributed to improving the lives of children locally and nationally.
The Pediatric Clinical Research Center (PCRC) provides core infrastructure and service to investigators in the department and assists with the expansion of access to innovative clinical trials and novel therapies for children.
The Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ) is a biomedical research institute focused on basic science and translational research in childhood diseases.
The department provides a combination of expert scientific medicine with a family-centered approach to pediatric care in a variety of areas including pediatric allergy and immunology, cardiology, critical care, emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology and nutrition, hematology-oncology, and more.
