School of Medicine

Department of Pediatrics

General (Ambulatory) Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

 

Mission: To address the health care needs of children, adolescents and young adults in Greater New Orleans, Louisiana and beyond through evidence-based culturally-sensitive care, the advanced education of health professionals, the conduct of relevant research, and translation of research and policy into practice.

The Division's diverse faculty provide care for thousands of infants, children and adolescents in community health clinics throughout Greater New Orleans. These patient centered community health clinics comprise the core longitudinal continuity clinic and adolescent health experiences for LSUHSC Pediatric residents as well as LSU Medical Students, Nursing Students, Dental Students and Physician Assistant Students. They also include Spanish speaking clinic. Faculty also provide care at the Touro Infirmary Nursery, the Children's Hospital Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit and Children's Hospital inpatient wards. Our Adolescent Medicine specialists staff a specialty clinic at Children's Hospital New Orleans, a referral and primary care Adolescent Clinic at Kids First Tiger Care Pediatrics and a School-Based Health Center in a local public secondary schools and provide comprehensive medical and behavioral health care to over 2000 adolescents- keeping kids in school and parents at work or home.

Faculty are engaged in various public health programs and research projects including pediatric nutrition, adolescent STI and reproductive health care, and clinical best-practices for adolescent parents and their children.

 

Faculty & Staff

Ryan H. Pasternak, MD, MPH, FAAP (he/him/his)
Professor of Pediatrics

Vice Chair, Pediatric Community Health and Advocacy                                                                                              

Division Head / Section Head, Adolescent Medicine Program
Professor of Pediatrics
Nick Gagliano Professor of Ambulatory Pediatrics

https://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/adolescenthealth/

https://give.lsuhealthfoundation.org/adolescenthealth

 

Faculty

Mark Dal Corso, MD 
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Gratis

S. Amanda Dumas, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Director, Advocacy Rotation and Young Mother's - Teen Tot Clinic

Ashley Farge, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Assistant Continuity Clinic Director

Gregory "Kyle" Fulton , MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Director, Craniofacial Pediatrics 


Corey Hebert, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (gratis)

Marcella Houser, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Assistant- Director, Pediatric Continuity Clinics
Representative, Faculty Assembly
Clínica de habla española (Spanish Speaking Clinic), 1661 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112.  504-299-9980

Suzanne LeFevre, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Continuity Cinics
Associate Program Director, Pediatrics Residency

Nathalie Medeiros, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Medical Director - Nursery Services

William Morgan, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Medical- Director, Kids First Tiger Care Pediatrics Clinic

Kimiyo Harris-Williams, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Medical- Director, Kids First Tiger Care Pediatrics Clinic


The Southern Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health Equity and School Based Health Center (SBHC) Staff and Collaborators

Tatjana Saunders

Program Manager, Adolescent Medicine and The Southern Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health Equity

Colleen F. Bodet, BSN, APRN
Adjunct Professor of Nursing, Nurse Practitioner (SBHC, CHNOLA ER)

Renette Jones, BSN, RN
Clinic Nurse and Immunziation Program Director (SBHC)

Brooke Q. Naranjo, MN, FNP-C
Nurse Practitioner

Mary Pendleton
Data Analyst and Administrative Assistant

Children's Hospital New Orleans, Adolescent Medicine and Gender Health Specialty Clinics (Specialty Adolescent, Reproductive and Gender/Transgender Health)
3040 33rd St. Metairie LA & 200 Henry Clay Ave, New Orleans LA

Admin: (504) 896-2838 Hospital Office and Appointments

Phone: (504) 896-2888 Appointment Line 

Clinic:   (504) 896-3099 Clinic and Appointments

Thad Hicks, RN
Nurse Navigator (CHNOLA Adolescent Med/The Southern Center)

Kristi Broussard, LCSW
SBHC Social Worker at N.O. Charter Science & Math High School (CHNOLA)


Research/Program  Staff 

Hannah Simon, MPH
Program Manager, Adolescent Medicine and The Southern Center

Partners and Collaborators

Children's Hospital of New Orleans and Adolescent Health Clinic
http://www.chnola.org  http://www.chnola.org/adolescenthealth

Children's Coalition of Northeast Louisiana
https://www.childrenscoalition.org/

Children's Pediatrics (Lakeside Pediatrics, Kids First Westbank, Kids First Tiger Care)
http://www.chnola.org/Pediatrics

CrescentCare, Family Care Services Center
http://crescentcarehealth.org

Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans 
http://www.dcsno.org

David and Lucile Packard Foundation
https://www.packard.org/

Institute for Women and Ethnic Studies
http://iwesnola.org

LIFT Louisiana
http://liftlouisiana.org

Living School New Orleans
https://www.livingschoolnola.org

Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center
https://lacats.pbrc.edu/

Louisiana Office of Public Health-Adolescent School Health Program 
http://new.dhh.louisiana.gov/assets/oph/pcrh/adolescent/1.Introduction.pdf

Louisiana Public Health Institute 
http://lphi.org

Louisiana School Based Health Alliance  
http://www.lasbha.org

Louisiana State University Health Foundation  
http://www.lsuhealthfoundation.org/?dt=1487605540402

New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School  
http://www.noscihigh.org