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Notable Achievements
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital enjoys a tradition of pioneering achievements in pediatric medicine and surgery. This leadership continues today. The following is a sampling of our many significant achievements over the years.
| 1887 | First hospital for infants |
| 1896 | First modern pediatrics textbook (by L. Emmett Holt) |
| 1909 | First facility for premature infants |
| 1920s | Founded field of child neurology |
| 1930s | Founded field of pediatric radiology |
| 1934 | Bernard Sachs establishes a Pediatric Neurology service at the Neurological Institute of New York |
| 1938 | Developed serum therapy for Haemophilus influenzae meningitis, which saved lives before antibiotics were introduced |
| 1938 | Created first pediatric psychiatric clinics |
| 1939 | Identified the pathological characteristics of cystic fibrosis and 1940s: developed diagnostic sweat test |
| 1941 | Defined the management of glycogen storage disease |
| 1951 | Established first microchemistry laboratory |
| 1952 | Developed Apgar score for the assessment of newborns |
| late 1950s | Performed first use of microanalysis of blood gas for serial measurements in premature infants |
| 1959 | First to describe "Shaken Baby Syndrome" as child abuse |
| 1960s | Established standards for the resuscitation of the newborn in the delivery room |
| 1964 | Sidney Carter is awarded the first Child Neurology Training Grant by the National Institutes of Health |
| 1965 | Performed first intrauterine surgery for an exchange transfusion |
| 1970s | First to use intravenous alimentation in premature infants and developed standards for this form of nutrition |
| 1984 | Performed first successful heart transplantation in a child |
| 1984 | Darryl De Vivo, Salvatore Di Mauro and colleagues describe mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) |
| 1988 | Darryl De Vivo, Salvatore Di Mauro and colleagues link deletions of mitochondrial DNA to human disease |
| 1991 | First institution in the mid-Atlantic region to provide radio frequency ablation therapy for young patients and adolescents with intractable arrhythmias |
| 1991 | Darryl De Vivo describes glucose 1 (GLUT-1) transporter deficiency |
| 1995 | Developed Varicella (chicken pox) Vaccine licensed in the U.S. |
| 1999 | Marc Patterson and colleagues report the first successful treatment of a child with a congenital disorder of glycosylation in North America. |
| 2000 | Marc Patterson and colleagues describe dolichol phosphate mannose synthase 1 (DPM 1) deficiency (Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1e) |
| 2001 | Darryl De Vivo, Salvatore Di Mauro and colleagues describe familial cerebellar ataxia with muscle Coenzyme Q10 deficiency |
| 2002 | Marc Patterson and colleagues begin the first study of glucosylceramide synthase inhibition in a human neurodegenerative disease (Niemann-Pick disease, type C) |
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