• Children's Hospital of Michigan offers more than 40 pediatric medical and surgical specialties.
• Children’s Hospital of Michigan is nationally recognized as one of America’s best hospitals for pediatric care.
•The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Panda One Intensive Care Transport Team, staffed by pediatric specialists, is the only dedicated neonatal pediatric transport team in Michigan that can transfer patients by ambulance, helicopter or Lear jet.
Seeking participants for a study of PediatricObsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD):
David R. Rosenberg, M.D., Chief, Psychiatry and Psychology at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University, is seeking participants for a research study to look at the brain chemistry and genetics of children with OCD, and children without OCD..
The study uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and genetic samples (blood and/or saliva) to learn more about how different treatments affect the brain.
Requirements for study participants: -European Caucasian descendents -6-19 years of age -Diagnosed with OCD or suspected of having OCD -Cannot wear braces -Cannot be pregnant -Cannot currently be on medication Control participants: -6-19 years of age -No personal or immediate family history of psychiatric or mental illness -Cannot wear braces -Cannot be pregnant
For 125 years the Children’s Hospital of Michigan is the first and most experienced hospital in the state dedicated exclusively to the treatment of children. A leader internationally in neurology and neurosurgery, cardiology, oncology, and diagnostic services, it is ranked one of America’s best hospitals for children. More Michigan pediatricians are trained at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan than in any other facility. Children’s Hospital of Michigan is one of eight hospitals operated by the Detroit Medical Center (DMC). The DMC is proud to be the Official Healthcare Services Provider of the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons.
The Children’s Hospital of Michigan engages in groundbreaking research that has long shaped the science of pediatric medicine. Children’s is ranked as one of America’s best hospitals for children in cancer, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery and urology by U.S.News & World Report and among America’s best 25 children’s hospitals by Parent Magazine. It is also a nationally recognized Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, and a TOP hospital in pediatrics by Hour Detroit magazine.
There is only one Children’s Hospital of Michigan — where all we know and everything we do is just for them.
Children’s Hospital of Michigan is the most experienced hospital in the state, completely dedicated to treating and researching childhood illness and injury.
Children have unique needs and require a hospital that can handle all of them. While most adult general hospitals see a few dozen children a week, our pediatric experts treat hundreds — more than any other hospital in Michigan.