The leader of Critical Care Medicine and an experienced administrator, Lara S. Shekerdemian, MD, MHA, has been appointed Pediatrician-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Hospital and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine.

Since U.S. News & World Report began its rankings 14 years ago, no other pediatric hospital in Texas has achieved an overall ranking as high as Texas Children’s.

The Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Huda Zoghbi, MD, received the Brain Prize for highly original and influential advances in brain research.

The Director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Helen Heslop, MD, DSc (Hon), has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Two prestigious pediatric societies named five new members from the Baylor College of Medicine-Texas Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics.

An innovative reading program promotes early language and literacy among patients in the Texas Children’s Heart Center^®.

Researchers have found a noninvasive way to locate areas of the brain responsible for epileptic spasms in patients with a disorder that can halt brain development and cause long-term cognitive and motor damage.

A Baylor College of Medicine faculty member collaborates with pediatric nephrologists at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda for early identification and management of childhood kidney disease.