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Chairman's Statment
"Congratulations on your choice of the career in pediatrics. It
is no exaggeration to say that our future is largely dependent
upon how we care for our children. Pediatrics is a rewarding
career for many reasons. The pediatrician has a privilege of
developing long-term relationships with patients and their
families, most patients recover from their illnesses and go on
to live happy, productive lives, and kids are just fun to be
around.
You are about
to enter the last stage of training to be a pediatrician.
Residency is a time when you make the final transition from
being a student to being a physician. There is a great deal
for you to learn in making this transition. The 85 faculty in
the Department of Pediatrics and the other pediatric physician
specialists in surgery, radiology, anesthesiology, etc., at The
Children's Hospital of Buffalo are dedicated to teaching and
will guide you in your training. The teaching program at
Children's Hospital is one of the primary reasons that we have
been consistently rated in the top 20 pediatric programs in the
nation. The internationally recognized research conducted here
has generated $11,940,252.00 in grant funding and contributes to
the richness of the learning environment as well. We are also
in the final stages of a major $37
million upgrade of our physical plant, including new
state-of-the-art Micro-access Surgery Rooms, a new Intensive
Care Nursery with Helipad, and a new Emergency Department.
There is also
an important personal side to this transition from being a
student, learning about patient care, to being a physician
responsible for patient care. There is a lot of personal
growth and maturation involved in taking on this
responsibility. This is also one of the most rewarding times of
your career. You will ultimately be a pediatrician, something
you have worked hard toward for a long time. I think you will
find it to be everything you expected and much more. You'll
also make some lifelong friends and memories. We the faculty,
staff and residents of The Children's Hospital of Buffalo look
forward to guiding and supporting you in this transition. We
hope to be part of those memories and friendships as well."
Frederick C. Morin, III,
M.D.
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Pediatrician-in-Chief, The Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo
Frederick C. Morin, III,
M.D. has been the Pediatrician-in-Chief of Children’s
Hospital since 1997. Dr. Morin graduated from the University of
Notre Dame and received his Degree in Medicine from Yale
University. Dr. Morin was a Pediatric Resident at Stanford
University and a Neonatology Fellow at the Cardiovascular
Research Institute of the University of California. He came to
The Children’s Hospital of Buffalo in 1986, and in 1989, was
named Associate Professor of Pediatrics and the Chief of the
Division of Neonatology. Dr. Morin is a Professor of Pediatrics
and Professor of Physiology, and was named the Chairman of
Pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo in
1997. Dr. Morin received the appointment of A. Conger Goodyear
Professor in 1997 and became the Clinical Director of Pediatrics
at CGF Health Care System in 1998. He has written over 50
journal articles and has been the recipient of numerous grants
from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart
Association, the Sinsheimer Foundation, as well as many others.
His groundbreaking research into the etiology and treatment of
Persistent Pulmonology Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN) and
the uses of nitric oxide have brought him international
notoriety. |
