History

Parkland Baby Camp (see Pediatrics Department History)

Gladys Fashena, a pioneer in pediatric cardiology (see Cardiology History)

1^st quintuplets in North America to all survive, born in the Parkland NICU (see “Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine” History)

The following links contain the history of the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern. The Department and Infectious Disease division histories were written by Dr. John Nelson, who joined the Department in 1959 as a research fellow. Other division histories were written by the respective division directors and faculty.

Pediatrics Department History

Any pediatrics department in a medical school evolves through stages of development analogous to the developmental stages of a newborn child progressing through infancy, childhood, and adolescence toward maturity. The history of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is presented in that sequence in this record.

--John D. Nelson, MD

Pediatric Division Histories

• Allergy & Immunology
• Cardiology
• Critical Care Medicine
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• General Pediatrics
• Genetics/Metabolism
• Hematology/Oncology
• Infectious Disease
• Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Respiratory Medicine
• Pulmonary & Vascular Biology
• Rheumatology