Welcome to Penn State Hershey Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension
The Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension team at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital is an experienced group of physicians, nurses, dietitians and social workers who work together to provide evaluation and treatment to infants, children and teenagers with kidney disease or high blood pressure.
We are a division within the Department of Pediatrics at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. We provide services in both the outpatient and inpatient setting and work closely with our physician colleagues in Pediatric Urology, Renal Transplantation, and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, as well as many other pediatric specialists to provide comprehensive care for children with all forms of acute or chronic kidney disease. More...
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- Penn State College of Medicine awarded $1 million AMA grant Penn State College of Medicine has been awarded a prestigious $1 million grant by the American Medical Association as part of a program aimed at transforming the way the physicians of tomorrow are trained.More...
- Penn State Hershey entrepreneurs win first 'startup boot camp' awards Dr. Joseph Sassani, ophthalmologist at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and professor of ophthalmology and pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, is the winner of The TechCelerator@Hershey’s inaugural Eight Week Boot Camp program for promising entrepreneurs.More...
- Collaborative Hershey and University Park medical service trip This spring brought the first collaborative spring break service trip for University Park undergraduates and Hershey medical students and physicians.More...