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The mission of the Department of Pediatrics is to generate new knowledge through research, to apply this new knowledge to the highest quality health care for the prevention and treatment of illness in children, and to provide the best possible education of the next generation of medical students, physicians and other health professionals in childhood disease prevention, treatment, research, and advocacy. Through this mission the Department seeks to improve the lives of children in our community, nation and the world.


For Patients and Families


Appointments: (612) 626-6777
Health Access Line: (888) 256-9787

University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview


For Referring Physicians

24-Hour Consultations & Admissions
1-888-KIDS-UMN

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Amplatz Children's Hospital

Opening in 2011, University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital will be an ecologically friendly, 96-bed, 227,000-square-foot facility that consolidates in one patient- and family-centered location the hospital’s 50 pediatric specialties

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Administrative Offices

Department Head:
Aaron Friedman, M.D.

Office: 13-118 Phillips-Wangensteen Building

Department of Pediatrics
University of Minnesota Medical School
MMC 391
420 Delaware St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0374
Phone: (612) 624-3113
Fax: (612) 626-6601
umnpeds@umn.edu


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