UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital again ranks among the nation’s best, with three pediatric specialties recognized as the top programs in Florida by U.S. News & World Report. We are honored to be a place where the spirit of excellent care is delivered with compassion by talented caregivers giving their best. Click the button below to learn more about the national recognition of our pediatric programs in behavioral health, cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, neonatology, and pulmonology & lung surgery.

UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital is pleased to share our 2024 Pediatric Progress Report, which highlights a number of our faculty and staff’s extraordinary accomplishments, innovative research, community outreach efforts, and ways we are improving quality of care for the children entrusted to us and the families we serve. Learn more about our unique pediatric programs and the strides we’ve made over the past year.

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.