The Department of Pediatrics is associated with some of the finest institutions in the country for the diagnosis and treatment of children. The department is housed within the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, enabling a true synergy between the teaching faculty, house staff and the patients they treat.

The department is also a part of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for personal attention and a customized medical education. In addition, the school's research program is the fastest growing in the U.S. The department also partners with the renowned Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, working to improve the quality of life of persons with disorders of thinking, learning, perception, communication, mood and emotion caused by disruption of typical development.