We serve as a medical home for patients ages 14 to 23, bringing primary and specialized care together under one roof. Services include reproductive health and family planning, substance use care, gender care, menstrual health, and support for young parents through our Teens & Tots program. Our interdisciplinary team also provides wraparound support, including help navigating the transition to adult care.
Leading Expertise
Young Parent and Child Care
Through our Teens & Tots program, pregnant and parenting teens get primary care for themselves and their children in one place.
Evening Clinics for Busy Schedules
With evening clinics twice a week until 8 p.m., patients can get care outside of school and work hours, including same-day reproductive health visits.
Clinicians Who Speak Your Language
Our team includes providers who speak English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Cape Verdean Creole, helping patient receive care in the language they know best.
Location and Contact
Adolescent Medicine in Boston's South End
Monday – Thursday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Related Departments and Programs
Pediatric Primary Care
A program providing children’s primary care with check-ups, sick visits, vaccines, teen care, and support for ongoing health needs.
Aftercare Clinic
CATALYST Clinic
A primary care program offering adolescent substance use services and adolescent addiction treatment with medical care and counseling support.
CATCH: Child and Adolescent Transgender Center for Health
A program providing adolescent transgender health services, including medical care, counseling, and support for youth.
Family Planning Clinic
A clinic providing family planning services, including contraception, counseling, and reproductive health care for teens and young adults.
Menstrual Disorders Clinic
Parents Under 25 Program
Teen and Tot Program
A pediatric primary care program supporting teens with teenage pregnancy through prenatal care, parenting support, and mental health services.
Pediatrics Residency and Other Programs
The Division of Adolescent Medicine is a primary training site for residents in the Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) in pediatrics.
Residents in family medicine and in the family medicine and psychiatry combined program, as well as fellows in addiction medicine and endocrinology, also regularly rotate through the division. Adolescent Medicine also hosts a fourth-year medical student elective for students at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.
Adolescent Medicine Research
Adolescent Medicine faculty conduct research through the Youth Advocacy and Research Collaborative (YARC) and the Division of Pediatric Health Services Research. Current projects include a Youth Overdose Prevention Study developing a brief intervention for annual physicals, and a PrEP/Apretude Adherence study that measures adherence in young people starting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV.