Department of Paediatrics |Rīga Stradiņš University

The aim of the Department of Paediatrics is to be a modern student and staff-friendly education and science centre in the field of paediatrics whose activities should be recognizable not only in Latvia but also beyond its borders.

Key Action Areas

Undergraduate education in paediatrics in accordance with Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) accredited programmes
Continuing education in paediatrics and its sub-specialties (implementation of the medical residency programmes and continuing education programmes for medical doctors)
Implementation of doctoral programmes
Scientific research in paediatrics and its sub-specialties (international research, national programmes, grants, student and resident and other research)
Cooperation with Children’s Clinical University Hospital in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of paediatric diseases
Cooperation with other RSU structural units, national and international institutions and non-governmental organisations in implementation of RSU and the Department of Paediatrics strategy
Cooperation with the community in promoting children’s health and preventing diseases

Research directions

Paediatric diseases, their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention

Research topics

HORIZON 2020 project “Personalised Risk Assessment in Febrile Illness to Optimise Real-life Management across the European Union”
National Research Programme NRP Project No 5.6.2. “Study of Life-threatening and Socially Important Infectious Diseases in Children with the Development of New Scientifically Based Action Algorithms for Reducing Child Mortality in Latvia” (2014-2017)
RSU project "Clinical Features of Rotavirus Infection, Molecular Epidemiology in Hospitalised Children and Related Quality of Life of Child and Family" (D.Gardovska)
"Epidemiology, Pathogenicity of Human Bocavirus (HBoV) Types and their Possible Connection to Lower Respiratory Tract Diseases and Acute Gastroenteritis in Children"
Anti-Biopharmaceutical Immunization: Prediction and Analysis of Clinical Relevance to Minimize the Risk of Immunization in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patients (2015-2018)
Pharmacovigilance in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patients (Pharmachild) Treated with Biologic Agents and/or Methotrexate (2014-2019)
An Observational Registry of Abatacept in Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (2014-2018) - the project lead partner PRINTO, EULAR Centre of Excellence in Rheumatology;
The PRES European Network of Registries for Autoinflammatory Diseases in Childhood (2015- 2020)
JIA-PREVENT (2013-2017)
A 2-Part Open-Label Study to Assess the Clinical Benefit and Long-term Safety of Etanercept in Children and Adolescents with Extended Oligoarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Enthesitis-related Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis (2011- 2018)

International and local cooperation in study or research work

The Clinic for General Paediatrics, Paediatric Surgery Clinic, Neonatology Clinic and others within Children’s Clinical University Hospital
Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital
Riga East Clinical University Hospital
RSU Department of Human Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Family Medicine, Department of Surgery, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Department of Infectology and Dermatology and Joint Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Immunogenetics, etc.
RSU A. Kirhenšteins Institute of Microbiology and Virology
University of Oviedo (Spain)
University of Washington (USA)
Department of Virology, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Latvian Medical Association
Latvian Paediatric Association
Latvian Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology
Latvian Association of Paediatric Endocrinology
Latvian Association of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology
Latvian Society for Paediatric Rheumatology
Latvian Association for Paediatric Rheumatology
Latvian Society of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergy
Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases of Latvia
Latvian Association of Paediatric Cardiology
Latvian Association of Paediatric Surgeons
Rural Family Doctors Association of Latvia
Latvian Neonatal Society
Latvian Association of General Practitioners
Latvian Centre of Infectious Diseases
Society for Specialized Paediatrics of Latvia
HUSLAB (Helsinki University Hospital Laboratory Services)
PRINTO (The Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation)