NPF Centers of Excellence

NPF Centers of Excellence are premier healthcare facilities that focus on the multidisciplinary treatment of pancreas disease, treating the “whole patient” with a focus on the best possible outcomes and improved quality of life. There are currently over 155 NPF Centers of Excellence throughout the United States.

The program’s catalyst emerged from the patients’ need to find specialists in the field of pancreas disease. NPF guides our patients, families and caregivers to a specialist that can help with not only the diagnosis of pancreas disease, but NPF Centers of Excellence can help with pain management, nutrition information, surgery, and psychosocial support. Our objective is to have the best patient outcomes, which means treating the ‘whole patient.”

Why Were Centers of Excellence Developed?

There are inconsistencies in the level of care received for people coping with pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. The NPF Centers designation help facilitate the development of high-quality, multidisciplinary care approaches for the field. Designated centers also seek to advance research and lead the way for heightened awareness and understanding of pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer and related conditions among community physicians, allied health professionals, patients, families, and the public.

How Are Centers Approved?

Approved NPF Centers undergo an extensive auditing process and meet the criteria developed by a task force composed of pancreas disease clinicians and patient advocates. The criteria include required expert physician specialties such as gastroenterologists, pancreas surgeons, and interventional radiologists, along with more patient-focused programs such as a pain management service, psychosocial support, and more.

List of Centers of Excellence by State

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Pancreatitis Centers of Excellence

Alabama

University of Alabama at Birmingham

1808 7th Ave South, BDB 375
Birmingham, AL 35294-0012
205-996-4744

Why Were Centers of Excellence Developed?

How Are Centers Approved?

List of Centers of Excellence by State

Pancreatitis Centers of Excellence

Alabama

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham/ Children’s Hospital of Alabama (COA)

Arizona

Mayo Clinic Arizona

Banner University Medical Center – Phoenix

Banner University Medical Center – Tucson

California

Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Stanford University

University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital

University of California San Diego Health Sciences

Keck Medical Center of University of Southern California

UCLA Agi hirshberg center for pancreatic diseases

Connecticut

Yale University School of Medicine/Yale New Haven Health

District of Columbia

Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

Florida

University of Florida/UF Health

University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Mayo Clinic Florida

Georgia

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Emory University School of Medicine/Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine

Piedmont Atlanta Hospital

Illinois

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

University of Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago

Indiana

Indiana University School of Medicine/Indiana University Hospital

Iowa

University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital

Kentucky

UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

Lousiana

Ochsner Hospital for Children

Maryland

Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

Massachusetts

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital

UMass Memorial Medical Center

Massachusetts General Hospital for Children – Harvard Medical School

Michigan

Michigan Medicine

University of Michigan, Division of Gastroenterology

Minnesota

Mayo Clinic Rochester

University of Minnesota Medical Center

M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital

Missouri

Saint Louis University/SLU Care Center for Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases

Nebraska

Nebraska Medicine

New Hampshire

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

New Jersey

Hackensack University Medical Center/ John Theurer Cancer Center

Pancreas Program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – Rutgers University

New York

NYU Langone Medical Center

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center

Northwell Health Pancreas Disease Center

Weill Cornell Medicine – NewYork-Presbyterian

SUNY Upstate Medical University- Department of Surgery

Mount Sinai Hospital

SUNY Downstate Medical Center, The University Hospital of Brooklyn

Stony Brook University Medicine

North Carolina

Carolinas Medical Center, Atrium Health