The Division of Pediatric Pathology in the University of Utah Department of Pathology is based at Primary Children's Medical Center, which is the referral tertiary and quarternary pediatric hospital for the Intermountain West.  With over 240 beds and greater than 700 medical staff members, all pediatric medical and surgical subspecialties are represented.  There are more than 150,000 outpatient visits per year, 14,000 surgical procedures per year, and 11,000 inpatient admissions per year.  The Division of Pediatric Pathology aspires to provide the highest quality in diagnostic pathology and laboratory medicine services for infants, children, and adolescents in Utah and the Intermountain West.  Through our academic affiliations, teaching, and research we constantly acquire and develop new knowledge and explore and implement new technologies for high quality patient care.  We engage in clinical, translational, and basic research in collaboration with the University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare.  We invest in medical education for medical students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians and in continued professional development for division members.  All faculty in the division have made meaningful contributions to knowledge in pediatric pathology at local, regional, national, and international levels.

The Division of Pediatric Pathology was founded in July, 1994.  In the past decade the division has completed a transition to a private practice to an academic model for pediatric pathology.  The Division of Pediatric Pathology has an ACGME accredited fellowship in pediatric pathology.  Resident rotations are available in pediatric surgical pathology, pediatric autopsy pathology, and pediatric laboratory medicine, as well as in special electives for research and soft tissue pathology.  Medical student elective rotations in pediatric pathology are also available.  Since 1994, division faculty have authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and many review articles, book chapters, and abstracts.  All division members have given invited presentations at local regional, national, and international meetings.  A significant number of the peer-reviewed publications involved trainees at the medical student, resident, and fellow level.  Interdisciplinary collaborative research is ongoing with pediatric hematology/oncology, pediatric genetics, radiation oncology, ophthalmology, pediatric radiology, pediatric and adult neurosurgery, neonatology, pediatric surgery, pediatric urology, dermatology, orthopedic surgery, pediatric otolaryngology, pediatric and adult gastroenterology, pediatric and adult nephrology, general pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, the Huntsman Cancer Institute, and the Eccles Genetics Research Institute.  The faculty are active in many national and international organizations.  Some of these include The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, The Society for Pediatric Pathology, The Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology, The College of American Pathologists, and The Children's Oncology Group.

The future is bright for pediatric pathology at the University of Utah.  An integrated system-wide approach to pediatric and adolescent care is being developed in collaboration with the Department of Pediatrics, the Department of Pathology, Intermountain Healthcare, and the Huntsman Cancer Institute.  We anticipate further academic development in pediatric and adolescent oncology, perinatal and fetal pathology, pediatric laboratory medicine, and general pathology of childhood diseases.