General Pediatric Surgery

The Children’s Hospital of Buffalo is the major pediatric surgical and trauma center in Western New York. Full-time faculty are available in this department, which includes general pediatric surgery, pediatric cardiovascular surgery, and plastic surgery. The department performs an average of 2,500 procedures and has 5,000 visits to its surgical clinic annually. This department maintains a certified pediatric surgical training program.

Gynecology/Obstetrics

In addition to its pediatric services, The Children’s Hospital of Buffalo has a maternity division. The hospital is the designated Regional Perinatal Center, offering high-risk delivery services and an outreach program for sick neonates. Children’s Hospital performs 3,000 deliveries and logs 14,000 OB/GYN outpatient visits annually. Adolescent GYN patients are cared for in the clinics where pediatric residents have the opportunity to rotate.

Pediatric Dentistry

The Department of Pediatric Dentistry provides patients with comprehensive treatment in the prevention and management of oral-facial health problems that occur in childhood and adolescence or in the emotionally, physically, or mentally handicapped. The department also offers consultative, preventive, restorative, surgical, and orthodontic services to both outpatients and inpatients.

Pediatric Dentistry is involved with an exciting new program for the treatment of patients with craniofacial disorders. The Craniofacial Center of Western New York, which is based at Children’s Hospital, is a multidisciplinary team consisting of medical professionals from more than 20 specialties.

Pediatric Ophthalmology

The Department of Ophthalmology handles all eye problems of children, including amblyopia, strabismus, refractive errors, childhood cataracts, eye muscle defects, and infantile glaucoma. Its physicians have performed their first corneal transplant on a four-and-one-half-week-old infant.

Pediatric Orthopedics

The Department of Orthopedics handles about 12,000 patient visits in its clinic, treats several thousand children through the emergency room, and performs approximately 1,000 surgical procedures annually.

Children with skeletal problems, scoliosis, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and other neuromuscular problems, as well as patients with dislocated hips and malalignment of bones, are cared for by this department.

Pediatric Otolaryngology

Four geographic full-time faculty members are available in the Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, which sees more than 10,000 outpatients and performs more than 3,000 surgical procedures each year. The major interests of this department include diseases of the tonsils and adenoids, ears, and sinuses, as well as complex airways problems and birth defects, particularly craniofacial disorders. Its sister department, the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing, is involved in the evaluation of disorders and oral motor function. A multidisciplinary team for children with chronic sialorrhea exists to perform evaluations of young infants and children with a variety of speech, language, and hearing problems.

Pediatric Urology

The Department of Pediatric Urology provides tertiary care for infants, children, and adolescents with pediatric urologic disease. The scope of problems dealt with ranges from congenital abnormalities of the genito-urinary system (i.e., involving the kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra, and/or male and female external genitalia), malignancies of the genito-urinary tract, and abnormalities of bladder function.

Pediatric Neurosurgery and Neuro-Oncology