The Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine aims to provide optimum state-of-the-art care for critically ill and recovering neonates and infants, provide training for young physicians and investigators, and conduct basic and patient-oriented research studies to improve care. We are dedicated to the School of Medicine's mission of advancing and exploring innovative and novel biomedical, translational, and clinical research and education through the nurturing and stimulation of interactions among basic and clinical scientists, clinicians, and educators throughout the School of Medicine and University as well as with the private and public sectors. Through our integrated research, education, patient, and community outreach programs we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic medicine and patient care.

The Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford represents collaboration in the best sense. The center, funded by a gift from the Johnsons and officially formed on October 1, 1997, combines perinatal, neonatal, and developmental medicine services. The center brings together clinical services for the mother, fetus and newborn and formalizes academic partnerships among participating faculty and staff.

The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ECMO Programs were awarded the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) Excellence Award at the 20th Annual ELSO Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 14, 2009. The ECMO Program was initiated at Stanford in 1988 and to date, has been used to support almost 500 infants, children and young adults with life-threatening heart and/or lung failure at Stanford and LPCH with outstanding results.  The LPCH ECMO Programs support patients in the NICU, PICU, and CVICU. The Neonatal ECMO Program is directed by Krisa Van Meurs, MD and William Rhine, MD. It is coordinated by Arlene Sheehan, RN, NNP.