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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Team Performs Lifesaving Fetal Heart Surgery

Nov 7, 2024

CHOP’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment and Fetal Heart Program, performs fourth successful fetal heart surgery to remove life-threatening tumor.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Successfully Separates Conjoined Twin Boys

Oct 8, 2024

After nearly a year at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), conjoined twins Amari and Javar Ruffin were successfully separated by CHOP surgeons on August 21, 2024.

CHOP fetal family reunion group photo 2024.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Celebrates 28th Annual Fetal Surgery Family Reunion at the Philadelphia Zoo

Jun 3, 2024

More than 2,700 people gathered at the Philadelphia Zoo to celebrate the 28th Annual Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Lori J. Howell Fetal Family Reunion, representing patients and families from across the country.

CHOP’s Surgeon-in-Chief N. Scott Adzick Wins 2024 Robert E. Gross Award

May 21, 2024

The American Pediatric Surgical Association awarded Dr. N. Scott Adzick the 2024 Robert E. Gross Award for Excellence in Pediatric Research and Achievement.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Earns Two Press Ganey Awards

Mar 26, 2024

The Pinnacle of Excellence Award and the Guardian of Excellence Awards were presented to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, as well as the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit, respectively.

Remembering Lori J. Howell

Jan 22, 2024

With deep sadness we announce the passing of Lori J. Howell, DNP, MS, RN, beloved former Executive Director for CHOP’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment.

American Society for Clinical Investigation elects six new members from Penn, CHOP

Jan 19, 2024

Representing excellence across the breadth of academic medicine, the physician-scientists are among 100 active members across 50 institutions elected in 2024.

CHOP and Penn Researchers Show Gene Editing Tools Can be Delivered to Perinatal Brain

Aug 16, 2023

CHOP researchers have identified an ionizable LNP that can deliver mRNA base editing tools to the brain to mitigate CNS disease in perinatal mouse models.

NIH Awards Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia $26 Million Grant to Develop Therapies for Rare Newborn Genetic Diseases

Aug 1, 2023

A Penn Medicine and CHOP team will seek to develop treatments for three rare, incurable genetic diseases with the help of a $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Ranked One of the Best Children’s Hospitals in the Nation by U.S. and World Report

Jun 21, 2023

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is pleased to have once again been named one of the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. We are proud to continue to be at the top of this list and congratulate our peer hospitals who join us in this year’s rankings.

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