UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital is honored to be recognized as one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals according to the 2024-2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospital rankings. Our pediatric experts’ commitment to providing superb care and attention is reflected in the national rankings of our outstanding pediatric specialty programs: pulmonology and lung surgery (No. 23), diabetes and endocrinology (No. 33), cardiology and heart surgery (No. 38), cancer (No. 49) and pediatric and adolescent behavioral health – top 50 in the nation.

Welcome to the University of Florida Health 2023 Pediatric Progress Report, highlighting some of the extraordinary accomplishments of our faculty and staff, our community engagement efforts and ways we are raising quality and safety standards to better care for children entrusted in our care. Read more about what makes our pediatric programs unique and the progress we have made in the past year as we consistently aim to provide the highest-quality evidence-based, family-focused clinical care to the children entrusted to our care. We hope you will appreciate our digital format, which is best viewed using Firefox or Chrome from a PC or Safari from a Mac.

Dr. Barry Byrne is a clinician scientist who is studying a variety of rare diseases with specific attention to developing therapies for inherited muscle disease. As a pediatric cardiologist, his focus is on conditions that lead to skeletal muscle weakness and problems in heart and respiratory function.