Pediatrics
Welcome to the Pediatrics Department at Pablo Tobon Uribe Hospital. We are national leaders in pediatric patient care. We provide hospitalization, emergency, and pediatric and neonatal critical care services, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and specialized staff.
Thanks to our excellent patient outcomes and quality of care, our hospital has received various awards and recognitions.
Allergology
Our pediatric allergology team is responsible to take care of diseases related to allergic-type reactions, whether caused by environmental agents, infectious agents, and/or medications.
Cardiology
Our pediatric cardiology team studies patients with heart conditions, such as congenital heart defects, arrhythmias, and performs echocardiography studies.
Critical Care
It is the specialty that focuses on the assessment and treatment of critically ill patients.
Endocrinology
Our pediatric endocrinology team is in charge of evaluating hormonal diseases, for example, diabetes, obesity, thyroid alterations, adrenal glands diseases, pancreas diseases, among others. To provide comprehensive care we have the Diabetes Education and Support Group.
Gastroenterology
Our pediatric gastroenterology team is responsible for treatment of digestive tract diseases as gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux, food allergies, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease, short intestine, intestinal failure, inflammatory bowel disease, among others. In addition, pediatric gastroenterologists are specialists who perform both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures endoscopically (upper digestive endoscopy, colonoscopy, and rectosigmoidoscopy). To provide comprehensive care, we have a Food Allergy and Cystic Fibrosis Clinic.
Genetics
Our pediatric genetics team studies hereditary diseases (transmitted by genes alteration), including genetic syndromes, metabolic diseases, also in some cases they may provide genetic counseling for these patients’ parents.
Hematology
Our pediatric hematology team studies and treats diseases related to blood components, such as different types of anemia, platelet defects, also patients with bleeding disorders such as hemophilia and leukocytes. They are also part of the group of specialists who perform bone marrow transplants.
Immunology
Our immunology team deals with diseases related to the immune system, such as immunodeficiencies.
Infectology
Our pediatric infectology team is in charge of studying and treating diseases caused by microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites).
Liver Transplant
The specialty that treats patients with liver and biliary tract diseases such as biliary atresia, cholestasis, and liver failure is Hepatology. For our international patients requiring liver transplantation, we perform the procedure with a living donor, and we have the infrastructure, technology, and qualified healthcare personnel to do so.
Neonatology
Is the specialty that is dedicated to the assessment and treatment of patients in the neonatal period (newborns up to the completion of their first month of life).
Nephrology
Is the specialty dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with diseases related to the kidneys and urinary tract. For patients who require kidney transplantation, we have the necessary resources for the procedure.
Neurology
Our pediatric neurology team evaluates patients with central nervous system diseases such as epilepsy, neuromuscular diseases, headache, and metabolic diseases, among others.
Oncology
Our pediatric oncology team is responsible for the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer in children.
Ophthalmology
Our pediatric ophthalmology team is responsible for the evaluation, treatment, and eye disease surgery.
Orthopedics
Is the specialty that assesses, diagnoses, and treats patients with bone diseases.
Pediatric Surgery
Is the specialty dedicated to the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with diseases that require surgical interventions in children, such as appendicitis and peritonitis.
Pneumology
Our pediatric pneumology team is responsible for studying and treating all kind of lung diseases, including asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, among many others. Likewise, our team performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures through bronchoscopy.
Psychiatry
Is the specialty that assesses and treats patients with behavioral disorders and mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.
Rheumatology
Our pediatric rheumatology team is in charge of autoimmune diseases such as Kawasaki, Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Vasculitis.
General pediatric hospitalization
The general hospitalization service offers care to pediatric patients with pathologies that cannot be managed at home.
We use the modality of treating pediatric doctor during the hospital stay 24 hours a day.
Parents can accompany their children permanently.
Pediatric Emergency Room
The pediatric emergency service care for patients with acute and chronic pathologies that require immediate attention.
Some causes of consultation for pediatric emergencies:
- Fever.
- Increasing pain.
- Dyspnea.
- Seizures.
- Trauma.
- Diarrhea with dehydration.
- Persistent vomiting.
- Patients are initially assessed on admission by a triage nurse to classify and define the priority of every case.
All pediatric patients are evaluated by a pediatric doctor upon admission.
Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is dedicated to take care of patients with serious illnesses that require continuous monitoring.
Our PICU team is made of pediatric intensivist, respiratory therapist and nurses with training in comprehensive treatment for this kind of patient.
The Unit has technology and infrastructure that facilitates to provide treatments such as HFOV (high-frequency oscillatory ventilation), nitric oxide, oxyhelium, invasive and non-invasive conventional ventilation, high flow cannula, continuous hemodiafiltration, pacemaker, portable ultrasound and gas machine.
We are a referral center throughout the country for complex pathologies that may require critical care.
The neonatal unit brings attention to patients under one month of age with complex pathologies, which cannot be resolved in other neonatal units. The care is carried out by a pediatric neonatologist, respiratory therapist and nurses specialized in this type of patient.
We have an interdisciplinary group in which, in addition to providing high-quality care and the latest technology, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support is offered to both patients and their families.
Metabolic Diseases Group
This interdisciplinary group assesses and provides proper follow-up for patients with genetic diseases. It includes specialists in neurology, gastroenterology, liver transplantation, genetics, pulmonology, nutrition, and psychology.
Cystic Fibrosis Group
This multidisciplinary group evaluates and treats patients diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, involving the participation of respiratory therapy and nutrition.
Clinic of Food Allergy
In this clinic, patients with food allergies are jointly assessed by allergists, nutritionists, and gastroenterologists.
Pediatric surgery
Pediatric surgery is a medical specialty in charge of surgically correcting the conditions that occur in children from birth to age 15 and that affects their organs’ function, growth, and development.
Our team has training and adequate resources to carry out minimally invasive surgeries.
Joint assessment of patients with gastrointestinal allergy by Nutrition, gastroenterology, and allergology.
Information to families
In the pediatric units, caregivers are actively involved in the care of the patients. Information and education are provided by the physician and/or nursing staff according to the individual needs of each patient.
We are an institution committed to the IAMII strategy (Comprehensive Institution Friendly to Women and Children)
Ana del Mar Cortina
M.D. Pediatrician
Andrés Cifuentes Lopera
M.D. Pediatrician
Catalina Hincapié Ocampo
M.D. Pediatrician
Catalina Mesa Muñoz
M.D. Pediatrician
David Andrés Espinal Botero
M.D. Pediatrician
Edna Karina García Ramírez
M.D. Pediatrician
Erika García Robledo
M.D. Pediatrician
Eliana Gómez Cadavid
M.D. Pediatrician
Lina María Betancur Londoño
M.D. Pediatrician
Marcela Betancourt Rojas
M.D. Pediatrician
Martha Luz Contreteras Mendoza
M.D. Pediatrician
Nadime Yolanda Agudelo Sanguino
M.D. Pediatrician
Natalia Salas Guiéterrez
M.D. Pediatrician
Yezid Hernando Beltrán Aguilera
M.D. Pediatrician
Yufar José López García
M.D. Pediatrician
Ana Isabel Acevedo Osorio
M.D. Pediatrician
Ana Paulina Pamplona Sierra
M.D. Pediatrician
Isabel Cristian Maya Ángel
M.D. Pediatrician
Juliana Castillo Orozco
M.D. Pediatrician
Jhon Esteban Ramos López
M.D. Pediatrician
Catalina Torres Bayona
M.D. Pediatrician
Hardenson Rodríguez
M.D. Pediatrician
Luisa Fernanda Vallejo Hernández
M.D. Pediatrician
Daniela Pérez Cadavid
M.D. Pediatrician
Daniela Jaramillo Velásquez
M.D. Pediatrician
Daniela Velásquez Marín
M.D. Pediatrician
Ana Catalina Baena Colorado
M.D. Pediatrician
Stefanía Álvarez Cuartas
M.D. Pediatrician
Leidy Londoño Restrepo
M.D. Pediatrician
Verónica Abad Londoño
M.D. Pediatric Endocrinologist
Carolina Baquero Montoya
M.D. Pediatrician Specialist in Genetics
Edith Evila Cabrera
M.D. Psychiatrist Pediatrician
Mónica Contreras Ramírez
M.D. Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Ruth María Eraso Garnica
M.D. Pediatric Rheumatologist
Jorge Edwin García Ciro
M.D. Pediatric Pulmonologists
Diana Paola Sánchez Hernández
M.D. Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Carolina Jaramillo Arango
M.D. Pediatric Endocrinologist
Sandra Catalina Mesa Restrepo
M.D. Pediatric Neurologists
Leonardo Múnera Montes
M.D. Pediatric Pulmonologists
Catalina Ortíz Piedrahita
M.D. Pediatric Gastroenterologist
Andrea Parra Buitrago
M.D. Pediatric Pulmonologists
Andrea Restrepo Gouzy
M.D. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist
Ana Carolina Sierra Montoya
M.D. Pediatric Neurologists
Mónica Rosa Trujillo Honeysberg
M.D. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist
Mirna Rocío Yabur Espitia
M.D. Pediatric Cardiologist
Jennifer Monroy Espejo
M.D. Pediatric Endocrinologist
Adriana Isabel Henao López
M.D. Pediatric Neurologists
Isabel Camacho Ordoñez
M.D. Pediatric Neurologists
Julian David Palacio
M.D. Psychiatrist Pediatrician
Alejandro Diaz Diaz
M.D. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist
Gustavo Adolfo Giraldo Ospina
M.D. Pediatrician Specialist in Genetics
Isabel Cristina Pareja Betancur
M.D. Pediatric Neurologists
Margarita Maria Suarez Galvis
M.D. Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
Ruiz Navas Patricia
M.D. Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
Carolina Lucia Ochoa García
M.D. Pediatric Nephrologists
Catalina Velez Echeverri
M.D. Pediatric Nephrologists
Miguel Ruz Montes
M.D. Pediatric Cardiologist
Camilo Gonzalez Herrera
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Carolina Giraldo Alzate
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Carolina Tamayo Múnera
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Cesar Vanegas Diaz
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Horacio Gómez Gómez
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Mauricio Fernadez Laverde
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Oscar Enrique Peña Quemba
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Sandra Liliana Gómez Tovar
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Santiago Minotta Negret
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Eliana López Baron
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Hernán Dario Herrera Salazar
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Cesar Llanos Sanclemente
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Juan Camilo Jaramillo Bustamante
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Jennifer Giseth Morales Florez
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist
Ana Lucía Torres Millán
M.D. Neonatologists
Zoila Margarita Insignares Viscaino
M.D. Neonatologists
Mónica María Parra Jaramillo
M.D. Pediatric Intensivist. Head of Pediatric Specialties
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International patient office
Monday to friday
6:30 A.M. to 17:30 P.M.