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Our breakthrough research ensures the best outcomes for brain and behavior disorders.
We provide outstanding clinical care and research for children with cancer.
For children with heart conditions, we offer the most advanced care and best physicians.
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We deliver the very best care and birth experience for expectant mothers and newborns.
We provide the most advanced care for cystic fibrosis and other pulmonary diseases.
We are one of the nation's leaders in successful organ transplants for children.
We offer world-class care in more than 115 specialties for children and expectant mothers.
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Excellence in transplants. Focused on children.
Excellence in transplants. Focused on children.
Nationally Ranked
We were named the #1 Pediatric Transplant Program for volume in 2014 by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. This means that our team of experts perform more pediatric transplant procedures than any other children’s hospital in the nation.
Our hospital is also nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in nine specialties, including Nephrology, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, and Pulmonology.
Our Location
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is in the heart of Palo Alto and the Silicon Valley with easy access from anywhere in the Bay Area.
Transplant Center
A successful transplant can make an instant and dramatic difference for a child who needs it. In addition to having nationally renowned liver, kidney and heart transplant programs, we’re pioneers in therapies before and after transplant that help better manage your child’s condition or even avoid a transplant. So at any phase in their care, your child or teen can feel like a kid—and not a patient.
Meet Taylor Simpson
Fourteen-year old Taylor needed a kidney. Fortunately for her, she had an awesome mom who jumped at the chance to help.
Meet Taylor Simpson
Fourteen-year old Taylor needed a kidney. Fortunately for her, she had an awesome mom who jumped at the chance to help.
Innovation and Research
Blazing a path for better outcomes
Our Stanford Medicine physician-scientists work to keep us—and our patients—on the leading edge of transplant care. So your child can receive the best treatment possible.
Our Teams
A personal commitment to exceptional care
Our transplant teams are led by Stanford Medicine faculty, internationally recognized for their research discoveries, innovations and clinical outcomes.
Our Services
Designed to exceed the needs of kids
With transplant subspecialties in kidney, liver, intestine, heart, lung and stem cell, as well as combined transplants across these disciplines, our Transplant Center provides high-quality services for every need in a child- and family-centered setting.
Conditions We Treat
Better outcomes for every child
We specialize in delivering superior outcomes for high-risk and complex cases, right down to the smallest and most fragile.
Resources
Support for families and kids
Explore our collection of resources to educate and support kids and families—from places for families to stay, to camps designed for teen patients.
