- Pediatrics
- Pediatrics
Head of department
Introduction of clinical department
The Department of Pediatrics specializes in meeting the physical and developmental needs of children from infancy through to young adulthood. Clinical subspecialties include neurology/developmental medicine, endocrinology, genetic medicine, hematology–oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, cardiology, nephrology, neonatology, inborn errors of metabolism, and critical care medicine for children. Through the collaboration with pediatric subspecialties, we provide inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic, and emergency services for all children when required. We deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric medical center for Oita Prefecture. Our academic mission is to improve the physical and mental health of all children and adolescents, and to develop next-generation pediatrics by educating the pediatrician leaders of the future, advancing research, advocating for children, and providing the best-practice pediatric clinical care.
Advanced treatments/ Specialized treatments
- Genetic diagnosis for pediatric rare diseases.
- Hematopoietic cell transplantation in pediatric patients with malignancy or bone marrow failure.
- General movements assessment for the functional evaluation of the young nervous system.
- Long-term video-electroencephalography monitoring for epilepsy.
- Renal biopsy for children with chronic kidney diseases.
- Genetic counselling for pediatric inherited diseases.
Specialized outpatient clinic
- Pediatric endocrinology, diabetology, and metabolisms.
- Pediatric hematology/oncology.
- Pediatric neurology.
- Pediatric nephrology.
- Pediatric cardiology.
- Neonatal medicine.