We're very proud of the compassionate, highly qualified, competent professionals who make up our Spina Bifida Program team. Meet our newest team members and learn a little bit about their expertise and interests.

CHOP’s Pulmonary and Allergy Personalized Asthma (PAPA) clinic aims to perform a thorough asthma history, physical exam, breathing and allergy testing, and work with your family to develop an individualized and customized care plan to improve your child’s asthma care in three visits.

Physician-scientist Krithika Lingappan, MD, PhD, MS, recently joined the Division of Neonatology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Led by director of Penn Cardiovascular Institute (Penn CVI), CHOP CVI combines the best of CHOP and Penn Medicine to drive scientific discovery.

Sleep easier at night by learning how to help your child or teen get a good night’s rest.

The worsening mental health crisis is causing the Taskforce to rethink federal guidelines.

A recent CDC study finds 40% of teens feel “persistently sad and hopeless.”

CHOP and Penn researchers have found the combined effects of structural racism and the pandemic, known as a “syndemic,” were associated with negative postpartum mental health.

Over the last year, members of our Division of Urology have been busy advancing pediatric urology through research activities ranging from basic science discoveries to innovative 3D modeling of kidney cancers prior to surgery.

Over the past year we have implemented several new protocols to help better understand and address our division’s readmission rates, reoperation rates, and time to the operating room for testicular torsions.