Loma Linda University Health Care & its affiliates include an 11-story Medical Center and a Children's Hospital, providing both inpatient and outpatient care. Loma Linda University Children's Hospital (LLUCH) is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art medical facility designed especially for children's unique health-care needs. The Hospital offers the most advanced medical care available in a non-threatening, cheerful environment where each child is treated as a precious individual warranting much personal attention. The Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is licensed for 72 beds and provides comprehensive neonatal services for approximately 1000 infants per year. The NICU provides comprehensive care for critically ill infants, providing the entire spectrum of pediatric subspecialty and pediatric surgical consultants as well as an active ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) program. Encompassed in the children's Hospital is a child abuse center, Safe Kids coalition, Youth Alternative Screening Program, Toyota Learning Center committed to K-12 education for pediatric patients, the Ronald McDonald House and the Children's Hospital Foundation. The Loma Linda University School of Public Health consulting group provides comprehensive statistical and information science expertise in support of health research. The staff at our institution is wholly committed to the mission: "to make man whole," in a setting of advancing medical science and to provide a stimulating clinical and research environment for the education of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals.

Areas in which center specializes/conducts research: Infectious Disease/Vaccine; Hematology/ Oncology; General Pediatrics/Spina Bifida; Neonatology; Neurology; Nephrology; Gastroenterology; Critical Care; Endocrinology; Cardiac Transplantation; Pulmonary Hypertension

Sponsors/CROs worked with:
Astra Zeneca
Pfizer, Inc.
Genentech, Inc.
Eli Lilly Corp.
Novo Nordisk, Inc.
Quintiles
TAP Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Novartis
Kendle International, Inc.
Westat
Centers for Disease and Control
National Institute of Health
Discovery Labs, Inc.
Johnson and Johnson

Children have special needs that are different from adults. They are still growing and require unique medical care designed just for them. Hospitals and outpatient clinics can be an intimidating place for kids, and the doctors, nurses, and other support staff at Loma Linda Children's Hospital (LLUCH) and its outpatient clinics understand these fears.

INPATIENT We have a 244-bed tertiary care hospital with fun furniture, playrooms, and lots of toys to make our patients feel more comfortable rather than fearful. LLUCH includes:

• 25-bed dedicated Pediatric ICU and a 14 bed Pediatric Cardiothoracic and Solid Organ Transplantation ICU with 8 full-time critical care specialists and more than 1700 admissions/year
• 20-bed Intermediate care unit
• 72-bed Neonatal ICU with 12 expert neonatologists and more than 1000 admissions/year
• 18-bed Pediatric Emergency Department
• Helicopter pad and Pediatric Transport Team for Emergent Transfers
• State of the art diagnostic and interventional radiology facilities
• Specialized Pediatric Anesthesiologists
• 40-bed dedicated Pediatric Oncology Unit with 6 full-time Pediatric Hematology/Oncologists
• Over 80 full-time pediatric and pediatric sub-specialty physicians
• Proton Beam Unit (one of two in the United States)
• Extensive training programs for physicians, nurses, and specialists
• A staff of Certified Clinical Research Coordinators dedicated to the conduct of clinical trials.

OUTPATIENT Loma Linda University Health Care (LLUHC) is the management service organization that supports the many programs and services provided by our faculty physicians. These physicians are family practice, general medicine and general pediatric primary care specialists, as well as various medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. The Pediatric component of the faculty practice plan of Loma Linda University accounts for nearly 90,000 patient office visits a year. Seventy-five percent of these visits occur in the Faculty Medical Offices, a professional office building located on our campus across the street from the LLUMC/LLUCH. Other outpatient services may be provided at one of our satellite offices. In addition, we operate a busy teaching clinic for pediatric residents and medical students that sees 28,000 patients per year.

The Pediatrics Department (LLUCH/LLUHC) includes outpatient services in the following specialties:

• Allergy/Immunology
• Cardiology
• Genetics
• Rheumatology
• Forensic Pediatrics
• Infectious Disease
• Hematology/Oncology
• General Pediatrics/Multi-specialty clinics
• Neonatology/NICU Follow-up Clinic
• Neurology
• Neuropsychology/Neurodevelopmental
• Nephrology
• Gastroenterology
• Endocrinology/Diabetes

Parents are offered the comfort and assurance that their child is receiving the highest level of medical care available. We operate some of the largest clinical programs in the United States in areas such as neonatal care and are recognized as the international leader in infant heart transplantation and proton treatments for cancer.

Infectious Disease/Vaccine: Jane Bork, MD William Kennedy, MD Donald Janner, MD Hematology/Oncology: Andranik Bedros, MD Fae Majlessipour, MD Leisl Mathias, MD Albert Kheradpour, MD Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant Joan Morris, MD Christopher Morris, MD General Peditrics/Spina Bifida: Ravindra Rao, MD Cardiology/Heart Transplant Richard Chinnock, MD Ranae Larsen, MD Michael Kuhn, MD Neda Mulla, MD Dominic Blurton, MD Electrophysiology Ravi Mandapati, MD Neonatology: Ricardo Peverini, MD Andrew Hopper, MD Heather Carriedo, MD Leela Job, MD Douglas Deming, MD Diana Trupp, MD Anthony Dajnowicz, MD Wise Fargo, MD Janet Ninnis, MD Elba Fayard, MD Maria Garberoglio, MD Munaf Kadri, MD

Neurology: Stephen Ashwal, MD Chalmer McClure, MD Stanford Shu, MD Sarah Roddy, MD David Michelson, MD Neurodevelopmental Specialist Kitty Friar, MD Nephrology: Shobha Sahney, MD Drew Cutler, MD Peter Yorgin, MD Marian Wells, ANP Rheumatology Wendy de la Pena Gastroenterology: Manoj Shah, MD Marquelle Klooster, MD George Yanni, MD Khiet Ngo, MD Critical Care: Shamel Abd-Allah, MD Farrukh Mirza, MD Steve Treiman, MD Mudit Mathur, MD Matthew Gross, MD Chiaka Ejike, MD Carolyn Lee, MD Cynthia Tinsley, MD Endocrinology: Eba Hathout, MD John Mace, MD

Loma Linda University Health Care’s Research Division is made up of experienced, qualified, and competent staff to provide quality support for research, and customer friendly care. The staff includes: Certified Clinical Research Coordinators, Research Pharmacist, Regulatory Coordinator, Administrative Research Specialist

LLUMC/LLUCH is the only tertiary-care hospital in the area and is the only level one regional trauma center for three counties that constitutes approximately 26 percent of the land area of California. We serve a primarily urban population base of 3.3 million (projecting to reach 4.5 million in 2010). Our diversity is 50% White, 36% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Amer. Indian and 3% Asian. The poverty rate is currently at 15%. LLUMC is a major pediatric teaching facility for Loma Linda University School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and other health professions. Our medical team has more than a 150 pediatricians, pediatric surgeons, and sub-specialists to treat disabilities and life-threatening diseases. More than 1,200 nurses, child life specialists and other staff are also dedicated to the health and healing of children. Together they provide a family-focused environment backed by state-of-the-art care. Medical care is accessible through a neonatal intensive care unit, a pediatric intensive care unit, a general pediatrics unit, a rehabilitation unit, an oncology unit and a specialty cardiac care unit. Each year more than 100,000 children are seen and over 11,000 stay overnight. The pediatric emergency department sees more than 20,000 patients a year.

Loma Linda University Pediatrics and Neonatology work closely with the Loma Linda University the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR), their local IRB. The OSR provides research support and education to facilitate quality research on our campus. The IRB meets bi-monthly to insure all protocols within the LLU system are processed in a timely fashion.

For more information, please contact:

Lila Dalton
RN, CCRP
Loma Linda University Health Care
11175 Campus Street, CP-A1120
Loma Linda, CA 92354 USA
Phone: 909-558-7428
Fax: 909-558-7519
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Last updated on February 19, 2008

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