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A Regional Leader in Pediatric Specialty Care
Stony Brook Children’s Hospital is home to the most advanced
pediatric specialty care in the region. We offer a full range of
comprehensive medical services for infants, children and
young adults, providing leading-edge diagnosis, treatment and
management of childhood conditions, illnesses and injuries.
As an academic medical center we offer access to ground-
breaking — and often lifesaving — clinical trials. Stony Brook
Children’s is also a regional referral center for the smallest
babies, the sickest children and the most complex traumas.
This means that physicians and hospitals in the community send
their patients to us when they need the highest level of care.
Just as important, as a children’s hospital, we understand
that children need highly specialized services and specially
trained practitioners in a setting that reflects the unique
needs of children. The doctors, nurses and other experts at
Stony Brook understand what a child requires physically and
emotionally — through every developmental stage.
Highly Specialized Care for Children
Stony Brook Children’s is home to more than 160 pediatric
specialists, practicing in over 30 pediatric specialty fields.
Stony Brook Children’s has the expertise to provide the full
range of care for children — from offering well-baby care and
prevention services to treating minor illnesses and injuries to
performing complex surgery and pioneering protocols. Many
of our pediatric specialists have national reputations in either
clinical care or research or both, and have spent their lives
advancing the practice of children’s medicine.
A Patient- and Family-Centered Approach to Care
Children come first at Stony Brook Children’s, and parents
and other family members are key members of the care team.
Patient- and family-centered care is an approach we adopted
for several reasons; namely, because the family is vital to the
child’s healing process and research shows that increased
involvement of the patient’s family results in better outcomes.
We also have initiated the patient centered medical home
(PCMH) model of care in which the child’s primary care
provider — typically a pediatrician — becomes the point
person for all of the child’s medical care from well child visits
and community services to specialty care and hospitalization.
This results in coordinated and efficient care and avoids
fragmentation or overlap of services. The PCMH doctor can
maintain an accurate medical record and work with the child
and family over the long term to build a trusted relationship.
It also ensures that children get the right care at the right place
at the right time, overseen by the doctor who knows them best.
Fact Sheet
Stony Brook Children’s Highlights
• More than 160 pediatric specialists in over 30 pediatric specialties
• 106 pediatric beds including a 12-bed Pediatric IntensiveCare Unit (PICU) and a 10-bed inpatient Psychiatry Unit
• Serves as the Regional Perinatal Center, with a Level III 46-bed NICU — the first in New York State to feature all-private rooms
• More than 8,000 inpatient discharges annually (including newborns)
• A dedicated Pediatric Emergency Department open 24/7 and Level 1 pediatric trauma care
• More than 3,700 surgeries a year• Fully accredited by The Joint Commission• A member of the prestigious Children’s Hospital Association,
which is committed to advancing children’s health throughinnovation in the cost, quality and delivery of care.
• A member of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), a network of the world’s childhood cancer experts
• The only hospital in Suffolk County that offers minimallyinvasive pediatric surgery
• A Pediatric Nephrology program that has been recognized as one of the top 50 programs nationally
• State-of-the-art imaging, along with low-dose protocolsand expertise that reduce radiation exposure
• One of only 113 nationally accredited Cystic Fibrosis Centers in the United States
• An expanded Hematologic Malignancy and Stem CellTransplant Team to treat patients with blood-related cancers and cancers of the lymphatic system
• A Pediatric Psychiatry Program that evaluates and caresfor patients both in the U.S. and internationally
• The only Suffolk County hospital to perform kidney transplants for children
• The only board-certified pediatric urologist on Long Island• A School Intervention and Re-Entry Program for
children with cancer and/or blood disorders that has become a national model
• An extensive Child Life Program staffed by certified Child Life Specialists to help children feel more comfortable while at the Hospital
• Lead agency in Suffolk County for the Suffolk County Safe Kids Coalition
• A Ronald McDonald Family Room, offering families of children undergoing medical treatment a place to rest and relax right at the hospital
Pediatric Specialties
• Adolescent Medicine• Pediatric Allergy and Immunology• Pediatric Anesthesiology• Pediatric Autism and Developmental Disabilities• Pediatric Cardiology• Child Advocacy• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine• Pediatric Dentistry• Pediatric Dermatology• Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics• Pediatric Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)• Pediatric Emergency Medicine• Pediatric Endocrinology• Pediatric Gastroenterology• Pediatric Genetics• Pediatric Hematology/Oncology• Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine• Pediatric Infectious Diseases• Neonatology• Pediatric Nephrology• Pediatric Neuro-Oncology• Pediatric Neurology• Pediatric Neurosurgery• Pediatric Ophthalmology• Pediatric Oral Surgery• Pediatric Orthopedics• Pediatric Pathology• Pediatric Plastic Surgery• Pediatric Primary Care• Child Psychiatry• Pediatric Pulmonology/Cystic Fibrosis• Pediatric Radiation Oncology• Pediatric Radiology• Pediatric Rheumatology• Pediatric Surgery• Pediatric Urology
One-of-a-Kind Programs and Centers of Excellence
Stony Brook Children’s has earned a national reputation for excellence in many of our pediatric and adolescent healthcare programs. Some of our one-of-a-kind programsand centers of excellence are: • Apnea Monitoring Program• Celiac and Gluten Sensitivity Center• Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP)
• Cystic Fibrosis Center• Dentistry for the Developmentally Disabled• Healthy Weight & Wellness Center• High-Risk Clinic for babies discharged from the NICU• Infant Pulmonary Function Testing (iPFT)• The Lourie Center for Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS)• Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Center• Metabolic Disease Treatment Center• Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery• Pediatric AIDS Center• Pediatric Renal Transplantation Program • Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center• Sickle Cell Disease Center
Training the Next Generation of Children’s Doctors
As an academic medical center and a teaching hospital,
Stony Brook Children’s is training the next generation of
leaders in pediatric medicine. Students from Stony Brook
University School of Medicine, as well as doctors in our
residency and fellowship programs, can participate in a
pediatrics residency program, a child neurology training
program and a combined medicine-pediatrics program. We
also offer five fellowship programs in pediatric specialties,
with more to be added soon.
Stony Brook’s residents are trained to provide high-quality
patient care by our experienced faculty who are dedicated
to teaching. Our residents graduate with a strong general
pediatrics foundation achieved through their role on
multidisciplinary patient-centered care teams, representa-
tion on critical hospital and residency committees, research
endeavors, and quality improvement initiatives. A large
majority of Stony Brook pediatrics graduates are practicing
physicians at both our academic medical center and in our
local community.
Advancing Children’s Medicine Through Research
Stony Brook Children’s advances the study and practice
of pediatric medicine. We are the only continuously
National Institutes of Health-funded pediatric and
obstetric site providing HIV/AIDS clinical trials in Suffolk
County since 1992. We also have groundbreaking
studies on protecting children’s hearts through the
Pediatric Preventive Cardiovascular Risk Program.
Some of the research currently being conducted
at Stony Brook that may change the shape of
children’s medicine includes:
• Identification of genes associated with autism• Integration of neural stimuli to regulate
gene expression in the nervous system• Development of new therapies for inborn errors
of metabolism• Looking at the relationship between oxygen levels,
inflammation and treatments in premature infants
• Developing and evaluating noninvasive ventilation techniques for the most fragile premature newborn lungs
• Use of rhIGF-1 for the treatment of cystic fibrosis in infants
• Molecular analyses of Epstein-Barr virus and implications for associated cancers
• Evaluation of the late effects of cancer treatments on childhood cancer survivors
• Conducting NIH sponsored clinical trials in pediatric steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome
• Examining neuropsychiatric manifestations of gluten intolerance in children with celiac disease
• Understanding the Gut Microbiome in Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
• Designing a multi-faceted technology-based intervention to support weight management among obese children
• Differentiation of GERD from eosinophilic esophagitis• Developing and evaluating metrics to assess
insurance retention among children• Evaluating the impact of an enriched medical
home intervention on child health outcomes• Creating a family psychosocial risk assessment tool
for use in clinical practice• Cardiac Ultrasound trainer development and use
as a teaching tool• Use of simulation to improve graduate
medical education• Collaboration with international consortia on pediatric
kidney diseases including several multi-center studies
These and other studies are funded by awards from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and other granting agencies
to our research faculty.
In 2014, Stony Brook Medicine broke ground on a 150-bed Hospital Pavilion that will be the new home of Stony Brook Children’s.
This expansion is meaningful on many levels: First, it allows for the hospital to grow as the needs of Suffolk County’s children
change. It is a magnet for best-in-field pediatric physician-scientists, who feel they work best in a state-of-the-art environment with
the most advanced technology. It will provide children and families a safe, beautiful and child-centric environment — complete
with multiple playrooms, a live video feed from the Aquarium, an outdoor garden, classrooms and more — in which to heal. And,
most important, it has been designed for the optimum delivery of care at the bedside, with everything from in-room computers for
charting and electronic safety systems to family zones and videos with age-appropriate education information on specific diagnoses.
New Building, New Era for Stony Brook Children’s
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Locations
Stony Brook Children’s provides care at two main locations on the Stony Brook Campus, and seven outpatient facilities conveniently located throughout the community.
Stony Brook Medicine
101 Nicolls RoadStony Brook, NY 11794
Stony Brook University Cancer Center
3 Edmund D. Pellegrino RoadStony Brook, NY 11794
About Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook Medicine integrates and elevates all of Stony Brook University’s health-related initiatives: education, research and patient care. It includes five Health Sciences schools — Dental Medicine, Health Technology and Management, Medicine, Nursing and Social Welfare — as well as Stony BrookUniversity Hospital and 50 community-based healthcare settings throughout Suffolk County.
To learn more, call (631) 444-4000, or visit stonybrookmedicine.edu.