Staff

Surgery (Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery)

Patients are at the heart of our mission. The Pediatric General Surgery team, made up of surgeons, nurses and other staff members, understands that surgery can be stressful for a child and the family. We respect every patient’s needs and work together to ensure the child’s well-being.

Infectious Diseases

We provide inpatient consultative services for an entire range of infectious disease issues including respiratory infections, bone/joint and soft tissue infections, congenital infections, central nervous system infections, and infections associated with immunodeficiencies.

Critical Care (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit - PICU)

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The Montreal Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) offers state-of-the-art care within a patient-and family-centred philosophy for critically ill or injured newborns, children, and adolescents. This 18-bed unit is a major provincial, national and international referral centre and admits over 850 patients per year.

Medical Genetics

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Medical Genetics services are provided by a multidisciplinary team comprised of geneticists, genetic counselors, pediatricians, dieticians, nurses, molecular geneticists, and cytogeneticists. The goal is to diagnose, treat and prevent congenital and hereditary disorders.

Eating disorders

Anesthesia

Our department provides anesthesia services to patients in the OR, diagnostic imaging, interventional radiology, gastroenterology, cardiac catheterization, hematology-oncology and respirology, and provides anesthesia service to the Shriners Hospital for Children, Quebec. An Anesthesia Consultation Service is available for patients with certain conditions (e.g. asthma) who should be seen prior to their surgery date.

Respiratory therapy

Clinical nutrition

Neurology and Neurophysiology

The Division of Pediatric Neurology of the Montreal Children’s Hospital provides care for children with challenging and complex neurological conditions. Our Division has implemented a screening process for consultations and follow-up of children requiring neurological intervention. While we treat children with any complex neurological conditions, we do not offer consultation or treatment for the following categories of referrals: children with routine headache who have not received a course of migraine prophylaxis; behavioural disorders (i.e.

Medical Day Hospital

The MDH is a 10-bed unit that is open seven days a week. We have added additional activities and expertise to provide comprehensive medical ambulatory care, and prevent hospitalization and Emergency Department visits.