Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Department of Pediatrics of Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre serves Maritime Canada and provides comprehensive specialized interdisciplinary health care for children and youth. The Department also provides pediatric academic services (teaching and research) for the Dalhousie Medical School and the IWK Health Centre, including being the resource for provincial Continuing Medical Education activities. The Department has 16 specialty clinical divisions (plus 2 clinical services), as well as a strong basic science research program.

The Department is committed to:

- Providing state-of-the-art tertiary care for Maritime Canada's children and youth in greatest need in partnership with community-based health care providers;

- Training tomorrow's doctors, nurses and allied health professionals; and

- Advancing current medical knowledge and practices through research.

The IWK Health Centre, a tertiary care children's and women's hospital, is dedicated to helping children, youth and women in the Maritimes be the healthiest in the world. The Health Centre provides state of the art health care and is the referral centre for Maritime Canada.