Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, New York

The Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center can trace its roots to 1767, when New York was still a British colony. In that year the medical department of King's College, now the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University, was founded. Succeeding generations of Columbia physicians laid the groundwork for what became, over the next 250 years, the modern field of pediatrics. During those two and a half centuries physicians here at Columbia have pioneered many advances in the care of children. Our faculty members established several independent pediatric subspecialties, including pediatric radiology, pediatric neurology, and neonatology. Moreover many diseases and disorders were first described by department members.

Source: https://www.pediatrics.columbia.edu/about-us/history (11/21/2023)