General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Overview
Physicians within the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine offer comprehensive general pediatric care to children from birth through adolescence at North Carolina Children’s Hospital's outpatient clinics in Chapel Hill and Raleigh. The division's faculty is comprised of eighteen pediatricians, one nurse practitioner, and a Ph.D. specialist in health behavior and injury prevention.
This division's faculty holds responsibility for the medical care of children in the newborn nursery, the inpatient hospital setting, the outpatient clinic (including well child care) and the following specialty services: diagnostic, adolescent, hospital follow-up, and maltreatment evaluation. It also staffs the child abuse call system through the Beacon Program and is linked to the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center and the Child Medical Evaluation Program, a statewide program for identifying child abuse. Learn more about the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and its clinical offerings by visiting the division's Web site.
Special Services
The Diagnostic Consultation Clinic accepts referrals for diagnosis and management of children with complex disorders with multiple or unclear etiology. Areas of particular interest include: chronic or recurring symptoms of unknown etiology, developmental delays, failure to thrive, recurrent infections, including otitis media and urinary tract infections, chronic abdominal pain, enuresis, encopresis, obesity, eating disorders, behavioral problems, weight control and nutrition.
The Adolescent Consultation Clinic focuses on adolescent medical and behavioral problems and school adjustment problems.
The Hospital Follow-up Clinic provides follow-up of children recently released from the Children's Hospital.
The Child Maltreatment Evaluation Clinic renders medical and psychological services to children suspected to have been subject to abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse and physical abuse.
Contact Information
PHONE (general information): (919) 966-2504
CHAPEL HILL CLINICS
PHONE (appointments): (919) 966-6669
FAX: (919) 966-3852
RALEIGH CLINICS
PHONE (appointments): (919) 783-7809
FAX: (919) 783-8454
