The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)

The Hospital for Sick Children, corporately branded as SickKids, is a major pediatric teaching hospital located on University Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto, the hospital frequently ranks among the top-three pediatric hospitals in the world by Newsweek, peaking in 2021 at the top of the list.

The hospital's Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning is the largest pediatric research centre the world by area; a skyscraper that holds 69,677.28 square metres (750,000.0 sq ft). SickKids is credited with a number of inventions, including Pablum, a fortified children's cereal, in 1930. In 1968, the hospital opened North America's first pediatric intensive care unit. In 1989, the hospital discovered the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis. The hospital's research is primarily based in the fields of genetics and oncology. Several of Canada's first surgeries have been performed at SickKids, including separation of conjoined twins, bone marrow transplant, multi-organ transplant, and in-utero cardiac surgery.