Honors/Recognition

University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital is the only children’s hospital in Iowa nationally ranked for pediatric care by U.S. News and World Report. Read our October 8, 2024 news release

  • No. 21 in neonatology
  • No. 25 in pediatric diabetes and endocrinology
  • No. 32 in pediatric nephrology
  • No. 34 in pediatric urology
  • No. 40 in pediatric neurology and neurosurgery
  • No. 41 in pediatric cancer
  • No. 47 in pediatric cardiology, heart and vascular surgery
  • No. 47 in pediatric orthopedics
  • Top 50 in pediatric and adolescent behavioral health

The annual Best Children’s Hospitals rankings recognize the top 50 pediatric facilities across the U.S. in 10 pediatric specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology. 

University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital and the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics are recognized nationally for a number of achievements.

 

Pediatric researchers at the University of Iowa have a long history of breakthrough discoveries in both the clinical and laboratory setting. Meet members of our research team: