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Pediatric Immunodeficiency ClinicClinical Medical Director: Program Director: Information: Location: The Pediatric Immunodeficiency Clinic is located on Ambulatory Care Center, 5th Floor along with the other pediatric specialty clinics. Directions to Boston Medical Center and Map of Boston Medical Center. Hours: The clinic meets on Monday and Wednesday mornings each week. Two Tuesday evening sessions per month are also scheduled to accommodate patients who go to school or who have families who work. Adolescent patients are also seen in our ASI Clinic held on the fourth Wednesday afternoon each month. The ASI Clinic is also located on the 5th floor of the Ambulatory Care Center. New Referrals: HIV infected patients should make referrals through contact with Drs. Ellen Cooper or Steve Pelton at 617-414-5588. For diagnosis of HIV infection: see Diagnostic Evaluation Unit Clinic Services This clinic provides services to any child or adolescent with HIV infection. It has been designed to offer the majority of services in one clinic location for the convenience of the patients and families (one stop shopping). The multidisciplinary care team includes physicians, a primary nurse or nurse practitioner, social worker, nutritionist, neuro-developmentalist and neuropsychologist. All providers who work in the clinic program are specialists who are well qualified and experienced in caring for children with HIV disease. We will provide primary care for children, or for those who already have a primary care provider we will be involved as a consultative service. In addition to consultative and primary care, the Pediatric Immunodeficiency Clinic also has access to the most advanced therapies for the treatment of HIV disease. We offer a number of clinical trials sponsored by The AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the National Institutes of Health, as well as others through individual pharmaceutical companies and our Expanded Access programs. To ensure convenience, this is all done within the clinical program, so that optimal therapy strategies can be devised for the individual child and family. Our HIV dedicated pharmacist attends clinic and is available for consultation with both providers and families. Our perinatal consultations benefit from our collaboration with members of the OB Department with specific expertise in HIV, as well as a neonatologist with both expertise in the care of HIV infected babies, as well as developmental pharmacology. This allows us to often state-of-the art antiretroviral therapy to even the smallest premature babies. We have representatives in the clinic from the Center for Community Health, Education and Research (CCHER), and have affiliation with Latino Health Institute. We have links to housing advocates from the AIDS Action Committee and have legal assistance provided by the Greater Boston Legal Advocates as well as from our own department of Pediatrics, Child Advocacy Group. We can provide case management and mental health counseling and referral. In addition, our staff at the Children's AIDS Program have close ties with the clinic staff thereby allowing optimal care to be delivered to the children and families we both serve.
Pediatric Immunodeficiency Clinic - Providers Physicians Pharmacy Service Diana F. Clarke, Pharm.D., HIV Pharmacotherapy Specialist Nursing/Nurse Practitioners Debra McLaud, RN, Nurse Jennifer Mehigan, RN, MSN, CPNP, Nurse Practitioner Social Service Martha Vibbert, Ph.D., Psychologist Kim Smith, LICSW, Coordinator, Social Work Neuropsychology Perinatal Program Research Staff Jonathan Gaskins, Research Technician Administrative Staff For more information: Fax: (617) 414-7230 |
