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.

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.