Pediatrics
General Academic Pediatrics
SLUCare Physician Group general academic pediatricians offer comprehensive health services to infants, children and adolescents, including sick and well-child visits, at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.
Areas of Expertise Include:
- Newborn medicine
- Failure to thrive
- Adoption medicine
- Community pediatrics
- Urinary tract infections/voiding dysfunction
- Adolescent health care
- Sports medicine
- The effect of media on children
- Health care needs of gay and lesbian youth
- International children's health
- Endocrinology
- Developmental delay
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Children with special health care needs
- Postpartum depression
- Parenting
- Psychological and developmental assessments
- Individual and family psychotherapy
- Advocacy
Pediatric Specialties
SLUCare Physician Group specialty pediatricians are dedicated to partnering with patients, their families and the community to meet children's physical, emotional, and developmental needs. Many of our pediatricians are recognized among the publication "Best Doctors in America.".
Why Choose a SLUCare Specialty Pediatrician?
- SLUCare cardiologists are noted for their pioneering work in heart transplantation.
- SLUCare pediatricians offer the only pediatric referral program for immune deficiencies in Missouri.
- Our division of ;pediatric dermatology is a nationally recognized center of expertise, providing specialist medical, surgical and investigative dermatology services for children with all forms of skin disease.
- Based on our expertise in autism, the Knights of Columbus Development Center has been designated a Missouri Center for Autism by the Department of Mental Health.
- Our division of pediatric endocrinology is an official referral center for the newborn screening programs for the states of Missouri and Illinois.
- SLUCare provides roughly half of the pediatric GI services in the greater St. Louis region.
- Our pediatric weight management program, a novel multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of overweight children and adolescents, is frequently featured in local and national media reports on the epidemic of pediatric obesity.
- SLUCare neonatologists provide world class care for premature and critically ill infants.
In each of these specialty areas, we seek to improve the health of children through vigorous and creative clinical and basic research. We are proud to be one of only two academic medical practices in the St. Louis region. Through our Department of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, we have both the research and care needed to treat your child today and find the cures of tomorrow.
Other Speciality Pediatric Services Include:
- Pediatric therapy
- Pediatric clinical nutrition
- Developmental services (autism, ADHD)
- Pediatric dialysis
- Pediatric feeding team
- Fetal care
- Pediatric sleep services
- Pediatric organ transplant services
SLUCare Pediatrics Location
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
1465 S. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63104
314-577-5641