PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
The Preventive Medicine/Health Promotion Division at Miami Childrens Hospital is dedicated to promoting and meeting the Health Objectives for the Nation for the Year 2000. Programs included deal mainly with the training of the Pediatric Residency Staff in our hospital in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention in the pediatric and adolescent age group.
Comprehensive student health programs established in conjunction with the National Health Education Consortium are part of the divisions commitment to our community through the Head Start Program at the preschool level and the Student Health Services Program at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Peer group health educational activities are part of our student health education and career promotion program.
School-based health programs are carried out at middle and high school levels, including the one-of-a-kind national initiative of Teens Teaching Teens, which trains teenagers to become teachers to their own peers on major health issues related to their age group. Several community service activities are held throughout the year, i.e., Drowning Prevention Camp, health fairs and immunization for children and adolescents, in addition to vaccinations required for international traveling.
Numerous educational materials are produced during the course of the year, including two major publications, The Preventive Medicine News and The Happy Wheezer. All of the divisions informational materials are available to parents and the community in general by contacting our Preventive Medicine Resource Center.
Deise Granado-Villar, M.D.
Director
(305) 663-6844/666-6511 Ext. 4268
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PSYCHIATRY
Psychiatric care on an inpatient, partial hospitalization and outpatient basis. The 20bed inpatient child and adolescent unit is designed as a therapeutic milieu, with particular emphasis on behavioral modification and family therapy. Admission is usually on a voluntary basis and emotional disorders such as depression, eating disorders and substance abuserelated problems may be treated. Our outpatient services consist of a full array of diagnostic and treatment services for children, adolescents, their families and employees.
Americo Padilla, MD
Chief
(305) 666-6511 X 2465
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PULMONARY MEDICINE
This service is directed by fulltime pediatric pulmonologists who are supported by a pediatric nurse practitioner, social worker, respiratory therapists, and other team members.
The division serves infants, children and adolescent as outpatients or inpatients, treating diverse chronic or acute respiratory problems including, but not limited to, recurrent and persistent respiratory infections, chronic cough, asthma and allergic lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, tuberculosis, chronic aspiration, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, apnea and other respiratory center control disorders, stridor and other airway problems, congenital anomalies of the lung and diseases affecting the respiratory muscles.
Children who are oxygen-, tracheostomy- and/or ventilation-dependent are followed in the divisions Ventilation-Assisted Childrens Center (VACC), the largest program of its kind in Florida. Services provided by VACC include home care feasibility studies, discharge planning, family teaching and home care follow-up.
The division performs fiberoptic bronchoscopies for both diagnosis and therapy for a wide range of pediatric pulmonary disorders. It operates a fullservice pediatric pulmonary physiology laboratory with facilities for spirometry and plethysmography, bronchial challenges with methacholine, CO2 response curves, hypoxic arousal testing and exercise testing.
Moises Simpser, M.D.
Director
(305) 662-8380/666-6511 Ext. 4500
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RADIOLOGY
The Department of Radiology includes inpatient and outpatient services for general and special diagnostic radiologic studies of infants and children. Also available are diagnostic subdivisions of ultrasound, nuclear medicine, computerized axial tomography,and magnetic resonance imaging. A faculty with devoted interest to teaching is available.
Nolan R. Altman, M.D.
Chief
(305) 662-8293/666-6511 Ext. 4337
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RHEUMATOLOGY
This division, in collaboration with other specialties represented in Miami Childrens Hospital, provides the most advanced techniques for diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with acute and chronic arthritis, musculo-skeletal problems and collageno-vascular diseases. The Juvenile Arthritis Program offers a one-day interdisciplinary evaluation and long-term treatment plan for children and adolescents with rheumatic diseases.
Rafael F. Rivas-Chacon, M.D.
Director
(305) 663-8505/666-6511 Ext. 8505
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THORACIC SURGERY
Provides consultation and surgery for all thoracic surgical problems, with the exception of cardiovascular surgery.
Michel H. Nahmad, M.D.
Director
(305) 662-8320
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UROLOGIC SURGERY
Provides consultation and surgery to pediatric and adolescent patients with disorders of the genital tract and urinary system.
Hernan M. Carrion, M.D.
Director
(305) 547-2534
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