Family Outreach & Support Clinic

Physicians Ranked the "Best Doctors in America"

• Children's physicians have had years of special training to become experts in treating children. When physicians themselves are polled by the Harvard Medical School as to whom they would refer their own children or loved ones, our doctors are consistently listed among the Best Doctors in America.

Pediatricians Who Are Experts in Treating Childhood Diseases

• Children’s Hospital Oakland is unique in offering sub-specialty expertise in all areas of childhood diseases and disorders—as well as collaboration between all Children's Hospital departments—giving children the most comprehensive care possible.
• Children’s is one of few pediatric hospitals that also has a research institute known worldwide for its focus on pediatric research, which improves the cure rate and quality of survival for even the youngest children.

Life-Saving Research—Medical Breakthroughs & Cures

• Research that has changed medicine worldwide was originated and is conducted right here at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI).
• Children’s research scientists collaborate with clinical subspecialists who have the pediatric expertise and are successful in bringing the best ideas from the laboratory to the patient in the form of promising new treatments.
• Parents can choose to participate in clinical trials using experimental and potentially lifesaving therapies.