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CHAM Ranked Among Nation’s Best by U.S. News & World Report

CHAM Ranks Among the Nation’s Best for 18 Years in a Row

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U.S. News & World Reportranks Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein (CHAM) one of the best in the nation for the 18th year in a row. CHAM upheld its long-standing top specialty rankings in New York City, with Pediatric Cancer, Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, and Pediatric Nephrology 

Our nationally ranked specialties have a long history of excellence. 

Pediatric Cancer

CHAM’s pediatric oncology division has played a pioneering role as the first and only one in the New York metropolitan area to offer virtually everything needed for the care and treatment of childhood cancers all under one roof, with cutting-edge therapies, including early-phase clinical trials.

Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery

CHAM is one of the select few pediatric programs in the region to offer endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) in the evaluation and treatment of pancreatic and biliary disorders, including the first ERCP performed in an infant in the region.

Pediatric Nephrology 

The Ira Greifer Children’s Kidney Center at CHAM is one of the nation’s largest, most experienced and innovative facilities dedicated to caring for children with kidney conditions. The first to treat children with kidney failure and perform the first pediatric kidney transplant in New York State, CHAM’s Children’s Kidney Center now has one of the largest hemodialysis and transplant programs in the region and country.


“I am proud of my colleagues—who compassionately provide the most advanced and specialized care to children with a wide range of health challenges—for their regional and national leadership in their fields. CHAM has ranked as one of the nation’s best since the inception of the U.S. News  rankings 18 years ago.”   

Michael D. Cabana, MD, MPH
Physician-in-Chief, CHAM, and The Michael I. Cohen, MD, University Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine