Treatments for Complex Conditions
We help kids with complex conditions live their fullest, best lives.
Campaign support enabled us to pursue these initiatives:
- Transform cardiac surgery and neurological outcomes and speed development of a pediatric artificial heart
- Empower cancer survivors with a multidisciplinary, best-of-its-kind clinical and research program to prevent and manage lifelong complications
- Maximize use of targeted therapies for hard-to-treat childhood diseases using non-invasive ultrasound, offering new hope for patients
- Advance colorectal surgery and pelvic reconstruction through world-class care that integrates urology, gynecology and gastroenterology
Trailblazing treatments require sustained nursing excellence. We’re advancing the nursing workforce of the future — through training, mentorship and research.
Micah's Story
Micah was born with multiple heart defects and wasn’t expected to survive. She had three open-heart surgeries before her first birthday and is now a happy, lively middle-schooler.
Help More Children Thrive
Cancer
Childhood cancer treatments can lead to lifelong complications. Our research advances immunotherapy and less-invasive ways to destroy solid tumors. We are creating a multidisciplinary clinical and research program to prevent and manage these complications. Cancer survivors will be able to live richer, fuller lives.
Cardiac Surgery
Under the direction of world-leading surgeons, our Heart Institute performs more than 600 lifesaving surgeries each year. With your support, we will speed development of a pediatric artificial heart. We’ll expand our Global Fontan Registry – the world’s premier data bank of children born with a single pumping heart chamber – and mine it for insights to care for a population that’s living longer.
Colorectal
Our Division of Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction is led by the world’s most experienced surgeon in this specialty. We are advancing care, integrating urology, gynecology and gastroenterology. These complex conditions can have devastating consequences for kids, keeping them from school, sports and time with friends.
Focused Ultrasound
Beams of high- and low-frequency ultrasound energy are promising weapons against illnesses such as epilepsy, brain tumors and movement disorders. With your support, we’ll accelerate research and launch clinical trials to drive breakthroughs. Our vision is to maximize this futuristic technology to cure disease and create new hope for infants, children and young adults.
Nephrology
Our Nephrology Program has grown into one of the nation’s best. We’re among the country’s most active kidney transplant centers. We are our region’s only Medicare-approved center for kidney transplants in children and teens and the only just-for-kids dialysis center.
Neurology and Neurosurgery
We care for children with disorders including autism, epilepsy, concussions and brain tumors. We helped advance treatments for babies whose conditions compromise their brain health, sometimes catastrophically. As we learn more about brain plasticity, we are creating more pathways for kids with special conditions.
The Children's National Brain Tumor Survivor program is one of the leaders in transitioning children from care to active therapy to longer term health. We focus on their health, their wellbeing, their ability to go to school and hopefully become leaders in whatever they want to be.
Elizabeth Wells, M.D.
Vice President, Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine Center