Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

What is Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine?

Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine is the medical specialty that provides preventative health maintenance for healthy children and medical care for those who are seriously or chronically ill. Pediatricians diagnose and treat infections, injuries, genetic defects, cancers, and other types of diseases.

Pediatricians are experts in emotional and behavioral evaluation and can be a great source of comfort to troubled children and adolescents. In addition, pediatricians promote healthy lifestyles for all children and adolescents and ease the difficulty of patients who have chronic conditions.

The Pediatric Asthma Clinic
Childhood asthma requires management on the part of parents, the child and a health care team...to provide help and information outside of routine physician visits, Affinity Health Group now offers an asthma clinic just for kids and parents. Our goals are to help kids be healthier and have fewer asthma-related problems as a result of better management.

What is the "Pediatric Asthma Clinic"?
Parents and children will receive information regarding asthma, management tips, a personal assessment and new ideas regarding treatment; pulmonary function testing will also be available. The pediatric asthma team - including pediatricians, nurses, a physician assistant and respiratory therapists - will be available to see patients on a regularly scheduled basis, call 229.391.4100 for more information.

Physicians
John McCoy, Jr., M.D.
Tibisay I. Villalobos, M.D.
Teresa Stewart, M.D.