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CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS

Baby Be Safe
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8640
Contact: Cindy Rutter, R.N., Assistant Nurse Manager
(619) 543-2328 crutter@ucsd.edu

Baby Be Safe is an interactive program for expectant parents to promote burn prevention in the home. The program educates parents to potential at-home risks, and provides smoke detectors, water thermometers, electrical outlet covers, and printed information on burn treatment, fire prevention, and health promotion. Free classes are offered four times per month. 

Birth Defects: Pediatric Dysmorphology and Teratology
200 W. Arbor Dr.
San Diego, CA 92103-8446Contact: Kenneth Lyons Jones, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, and Director, California Teratogen Information Service and Clinical Research Program
(619) 543-2040 kljones@ucsd.edu

The multifaceted medical service program of the Division of Dysmorphology evaluates children with birth defects, follows up with respect to their chronic care, provides genetic and teratogen toxic substances counseling for parents, and conducts community education programs regarding birth defects. The Teratogen Information Service is a statewide program operated by the Department of Pediatrics at the UCSD Medical Center. Utilizing a variety of sources, staff collects, analyzes, and disseminates information on known and/or potential teratogens. This service provides information about prescriptive and non-prescriptive drugs, chemicals, infectious diseases, street drugs, and physical agents that may be harmful to an unborn child. The service is offered to pregnant women, fathers, physicians, and heath care providers. Information is based on current scientific data and counseling is provided in a nonjudgmental manner.

Brave Heart Youth Support Program
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8640
Contact: John D. Lozano, M.D., Director Clinical Burn Care
(619) 543-2328 

The Brave Heart Youth Support Program assists children and adolescents with burns to develop positive coping skills. Peer-to-peer support opportunities and mentoring are available through enrichment activities including youth field trips, a family support picnic, and a parent and youth seminar. Quarterly youth programs are open to all children and adolescents who will benefit from this support program.

Children’s Services (CCS), UCSD Pediatrics Program
6255 Mission Gorge Road
San Diego, CA 92103
Contact: Robyn Phelps
(858) 560-3400

In this state-funded program for children with severe medical problems UCSD pediatricians provide case management services at school-based sites where special needs children receive therapy and access to other services: medical, educational, nursing, nutrition, dental, transportation, and social.

California Tay-Sachs Disease Prevention Program
8110 Birmingham Way
San Diego, CA 92123
Contact: Michael M. Kaback, M.D., Division Head, Department
of Medical Genetics
(619) 495-7737 mkaback@ucsd.edu

This statewide program is considered the international prototype for the prospective control of Tay-Sachs, an inherited enzyme deficiency, predominately among Jewish children. The program includes wide-scale community-based education, blood testing for carrier detection, and comprehensive genetic counseling.
The purposes of the program are to educate California adults of childbearing age, provide blood-test screening to identify unaffected individuals who carry the trait, educate and screen California college students, and provide genetic counseling for at-risk couples.

UCSD Community Pediatrics
2251 San Diego Ave., Suite B150
San Diego, CA 92110
Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) Project UCSD, Division of Community Pediatrics
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla, CA 92093-0927
Contact: P. R. Nader, M.D., Division Head, Department of Community Pediatrics or Todd Galati, Research Associate
(619) 681-0688; (619) 681-0671 prnader@ucsd.edu; tgalati@ucsd.edu

CATCH is an NIH-funded demonstration project directed by UCSD Community Pediatrics in twenty-four schools in San Diego. The project tests the effectiveness of an intervention to (1) increase physical activity in third- to fifth-grade students, and (2) improve the healthfulness of their eating habits. Components of the intervention include school cafeteria and physical education programs, establishing a non-smoking curriculum, and improving children’s cardiovascular health through parental involvement. Positive results of the program have been published nationwide and the program is available to all interested schools.

The Clear View/COX Communications/ UCSD Partnership
The Clear View Charter School
455 Windrose Way
Chula Vista, CA 91910
Contact: Todd Galati, Research Associate, Department of Pediatrics
(619) 681-0671 tgalati@ucsd.edu

The UCSD Division of Community Pediatrics has joined with Clear View Elementary School and COX Communications to provide interactive educational experiences for Ms. Linda Marion’s sixth grade class. Twice a month, UCSD faculty and staff use a fiber optic link donated by Cox Communications to teach students about the cardiovascular system. Topics include how proper nutrition and physical activity can improve cardiovascular health and the ways tobacco use harms the cardiovascular system.

Comprehensive Pediatric Tuberculosis Project
County Health Services
1700 Pacific Highway
San Diego, CA 92101
Contact: Bronwen (Bron) Anders, M.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Pediatrics
(619) 243-0691 banders@ucsd.edu

UCSD Community Pediatrics has initiated a program in which children receive tuberculosis medication under the direct observation of school staff. UCSD and two other health groups collaborate on this county-wide project headquartered at San Diego County Health Services. The project demonstrates the value of schools and health agencies working together to achieve health objectives.

Day with a Doctor
UCSD Medical Center
402 Dickinson Street, Suite 440
San Diego, CA 92103-8230
Contact: Eileen Callahan, Public Information Officer
(619) 543-6163 ecallahan@ucsd.edu

Day with a Doctor hosts high school students from San Diego city and county schools in a full day dedicated to a one-on-one shadowing program to help students get a first-hand look at what it is like to be a doctor. The mentoring program, in its ninth year, pairs high school students in grades ten through twelve with a house staff physician for a day. Students also talk to experts in medical specialties.

Doctors Ought to Care (DOC)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0602
Contact: Ruth Covell, M.D., Associate Dean, UCSD School of Medicine
(858) 534-1509 rcovell@ucsd.edu

First- and second-year UCSD Medical School students offer health education on-site at San Diego City schools from grammar school through community college levels. They give presentations on alcohol, tobacco, AIDS, and rape, in English or depending on the group’s primary language.

The Dyson Initiative
UCSD Department of Pediatrics
2251 San Diego Avenue, Suite B150
San Diego, CA 92110
Contact: Phil Nader, M.D., Division Head, Department of Community Pediatrics
(619) 681-0688 pnader@ucsd.edu

The University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics, in collaboration with UCSD undergraduate and graduate schools of science, humanities, and the arts; San Diego State University Gradate School of Public Health; community-based organizations; community clinics; the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency; and city and county schools, are joining forces to carry out the Dyson Initiative in San Diego. The Dyson Initiative equips pediatric residents with the skills, capacity, commitment, and motivation to help improving the health of the population by developing and supporting community-oriented primary care learning activities. The four targeted areas of interest are: east county/Native-American, mid-city San Diego, border health, and the homeless and urban poor population.

East County Community Clinic
855 E. Madison Ave.
El Cajon, CA 92021
Contact: Bronwen Anders, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
(619) 243-0691 banders@ucsd.edu

UCSD Community Pediatrics staff provide health care to children at the East County Community Clinic three days each week. They also work with East County Community Health Services staff to develop and implement innovative health-related programs such as nutrition and immunizations for children.

Foundation for the Children of the Californias
4044 5th Avenue
San Diego, CA 92103-2106
Contact: Elizabeth Jones, Pediatric Specialist
(619) 299-4784; (619) 423-1000

To improve the health and nutrition of children of the region, a pediatric specialty clinic is operated in Otay Mesa, where thirty-five specialties are available. UCSD Community Pediatrics and the Pediatrics Residency program collaborate in some of these specialties. Doctors provide consultation and educational services to the physicians, nurses, and allied health associates of the Clinicas of the Fundacion para los Ninos de las Californias in Mexico, with special emphasis on asthma, allergies, and clinical immunology.

Healthcare Access to Schools (HATS)
2251 San Diego Avenue
San Diego, CA 92110
Contact: Howard Taras, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
(619) 681-0665 htaras@ucsd.edu

Healthcare Access to Schools (HATS) helps children from low-income families obtain health insurance. HATS recruits children and their families through schools where funds are provided to hire full-time temporary out-reach workers and application assistants trained by UCSD and jointly supervised by UCSD and the school districts. Since its inception two years ago, UCSD has provided funds and technical assistance to dozens of schools in five different districts. Through this school-based effort, thousands of families are now better able to get health care to their children.

Indian Reservations: Southern Indian
Health Council, Sycuan Medical Dental
Center, and Indian Health Council
5441 Dehesa Road, El Cajon, CA 92019
or- UCSD Community Pediatrics
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037-0927
Contact: Bronwen Anders, M.D.; John Fontanesi
(Southern Indian Health and Sycuan Medical Centers); Gary Crummer, M.D.
(619) 681-0681 banders@ucsd.edu; gcrummer@ucsd.edu

UCSD Community Pediatrics provides low- or no-cost health care to native American children at clinic sites in northeastern (Valley Center) and eastern (Campo, Alpine, and El Cajon) Diego County.

Department of Psychiatry and Children's Hospital, San Diego
3030 Children’s Way, Suite 111
San Diego, CA 92123
Contact: Saul Levine, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director of Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(858) 966-4936  slevine@ucsd.edu

Contact: Gabrielle M. Cerda, M.D., Clinical Director, Children's Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry
3665 Kearny Villa Road, Suite 101
San Diego, CA 92123
858-966-5832 gcerda@chsd.org

A specifically designed outpatient service for child and adolescent psychiatric referrals emphasizes rapid accessibility and a multi disciplinary approach to evaluation and treatment of the entire spectrum of disorders, including ADHD, Depression Bipolar, Eating, Behavior, Conduct and anxiety-related disorders; Psychosis; Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, and others.

INTERFACE/UCSD International Surgical Program
4907 Morena Blvd, Suite 1412
San Diego, CA 92117
Contact: Kathy Mayo
(858) 581-3080 kmayo@ucsd.edu

Volunteer plastic surgery teams perform reconstructive surgery in developing nations for children with congenital and acquired deformities.

Linda Vista Health Care Center
6973 Linda Vista Road
San Diego, CA 92111
Contact: Lori Taylor, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
(619) 657-8333 l1taylor@ucsd.edu

Faculty from the UCSD Department of Pediatrics visit this center several times a week to provide primary care health services to children.

Mid-City Community Clinic
9350 Campus Point Dr.
La Jolla, CA 92037
Contact: Lindia J. Willies-Jacobo, M.D.,
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
(619) 543-5617 lwillies@ucsd.edu

The Mid-City Community Clinic, staffed by a UCSD physician, provides care to underserved children and also serves as the medical consultant to Rosa Parks Elementary School and Monroe Clark Middle School. Also at Mid-City Community Clinic, San Diego; Rosa Parks Elementary School; and Monroe Clark Middle School, 92105

Morse High School/UCSD Medical Center
402 Dickinson Street, Suite 440
San Diego, CA 92103-9230
Contact: Eileen Callahan
(619) 543-6163 ecallahan@ucsd.edu

This partnership enhances and promotes the health and science program at Morse High School and provides students with academic and pre-professional activities to prepare them for careers in the health profession.

National Youth Sport Program
San Diego City College
1313 12th Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101-4787
Contact: Paulette Hopkins
(619) 230-2015

UCSD pediatric faculty, residents, nursing and office staff volunteer annually with San Diego City College (SDCC) chapter of the NCAA to sponsor a National Youth Sports Program Summer Sports Camp, providing physical exams, administrative support, mmunizations, and medical care. The five-week camp for disadvantaged youth, ages 10-16, gives them exposure to sports, fitness, and the importance of education.

New Beginnings Project
Hamilton School
2807 Fairmont Ave.
San Diego, CA 92105
Contact: Sandra Daley, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; P. R. Nader, M.D., Division Head, UCSD Division of Community Pediatrics
(858) 534-0764; (619) 681-0688 sdaley@ucsd.edu; pnader@ucsd.edu

UCSD Community Pediatrics provides health and educational outreach to families in the New Beginnings Project, a twelve-year-old collaborative between eleven health, educational, and social services agencies in the county. Based at Hamilton School, New Beginnings provides health, employment, and social assistance to poverty-stricken families in the Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego. UCSD Community Pediatrics, physicians, nurses, and staff work with parents to teach them how to physically and emotionally care for their children. Through the Community Pediatric Parent as Teachers Program, UCSD also provides New Beginnings with an on-site community health worker.

Osteoporosis Education and Prevention
UCSD Medical Center
255 Dickinson Street
San Diego, CA 92103-1990
Contact: Sue Graeber
(619) 581-0438 or (619) 543-3932 SUEBEE70@aol.com

The Osteoporosis Education and Prevention program focuses on educating adolescents about calcium requirements and osteoporosis prevention through presentations made in junior and senior high schools in San Diego County.

Partnership of Immunization Providers
2251 San Diego Ave., Suite B150
San Diego, CA 92110
Contact: Mark H. Sawyer, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
(619) 681-0655 mhsawyer@ucsd.edu

The Partnership of Immunization Providers seeks to improve the delivery of immunizations to preschool children in San Diego County through four major strategies: (1) establishing a climate for change among community primary health care providers through data collection and education; (2) developing an enhanced immunization curriculum for primary care residents in pediatrics and family medicine to help sustain the effect of interventions over time; (3) enhancing the immunization tracking capability of individual provider sites and the eventual linkage to a countywide computerized immunization tracking network; and (4) coordinating community and family interventions with the results from increased immunization education, assessment, and primary care utilization. The program is currently conducted at nine sites throughout San Diego: San Ysidro, National City, City Heights, Encanto, Lincoln Heights, Golden Hills, Logan Heights, Downtown San Diego, Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad, San Marcos, and El Cajon.

The Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0979
Contact: Angela Fornataro McMahill, J.D.
(858) 622-5734 amcmahill@ucsd.edu

This program develops and executes research protocols in conjunction with industry to bring pharmaceuticals forward for pediatric labeling. The PPRU has clinical facilities associated with the UCSD Medical Center and the Children’s Hospital and Health Center of San Diego.

School Health Innovative Programs (SHIP)
2251 San Diego Avenue
San Diego, CA 92110
Contact: Howard Taras, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
(619) 681-0665 htaras@ucsd.edu

School Health Innovative Programs (SHIP) is a collaboration between health plans and local school districts to help provide access to healthcare for students with health insurance. Through electronic exchange of basic data, SHIP has arranged for health staff in each school to know the health plan for each student allowing schools to work with students and parents, and their health plans and doctors to obtain needed healthcare. Through SHIP, schools and health plans now have common protocols for diagnoses, physical exams, and immunizations. SHIP is beginning to work on joint health education efforts so resources from school districts and health plans are pooled synergistically. With SHIP, families are less likely to feel caught between healthcare providers and insurance systems. SHIP began in San Diego City Schools and has broadened to other districts.

School Re-Entry Program
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8622
Contact: Karyl Reid, Clinical Nurse Specialist
(619) 543-3678

The School Re-Entry Program assists children with burns and/or disfigurement reintegrate into school. The program is co-sponsored by UCSD Regional Burn Center and Center for Child and Adolescent Health. Children with physical differences are more successful with reintegration when their peers are aware of their injury and treatment requirements. This program provides burn prevention education and health promotion information (by request).

Sexual Assault Response Team
Palomar Hospital/Pomerado Hospital
Escondido, CA 92025
Contact: Joyce Adams, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
(619) 543-3743 jadams@ucsd.edu

UCSD provides consulting services to the Sexual Assault Response Team at Palomar and Pomerado Hospitals and the Child Abuse Program at Palomar Hospital. This service provides a monthly review of child sexual abuse cases which is given to law enforcement, community agencies, and child protective services. Lectures on sexual abuse are also given to tenth and eleventh grade high school students.

Student Health Service - Student Health Advocates
UCSD Health Student Health
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0039
Contact: Debbie Pino-Saballett, MPH
(858) 534-2419 dpinosab@ucsd.edu

In this program, UCSD undergraduates are trained to provide health education to their peers and high school students in the community. The program involves students from Torrey Pines High School through the Teens Educators Advancing in Community and Health (TEACH) program, and tenth grade biology students at Morse High School through the Science and Education Partnership Act. Student Health Advocates are trained by San Diego Unified School District instructors to conduct presentations about sexually transmitted disease in high schools throughout the district.

Student Tobacco Outreach Program (S.T.O.P.)
9500 Gilman Drive, A-34
La Jolla, CA 92093-0077
Contact: Samuel Cooper
(858) 453-6349 scooper@ucsd.edu

UCSD students trained by S.T.O.P. make presentations at local junior high schools about the harmful consequences of smoking with the goal of preventing tobacco use.

Study of Children’s Activity and Nutrition Project (SCAN)
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92093-0927
Contact: Rita Corea or P. R. Nader, M.D., Chief/Professor of Pediatrics
(619) 681-0681; 681-0688 pnader@ucsd.edu

UCSD Community pediatrics is studying 351 Mexican-American and Anglo children and their mothers to examine (1) developing patterns of physical activity and eating habits and (2) how the family and school influence such habits. In its current phase, SCAN is working with the family’s cohort. The study began when the children were four years old; they are now sixteen.

Teen Outreach Mobile Medical Van
Hillcrest, 92103; Downtown, 92101
Contact: David Vincent, Logan Heights Clinic, or Lawrence Friedman, M.D.,
Chief of Division of Primary Care & Adolescent Care
(619) 239-0268, x 213 or (619) 543-3751 lsfriedman@ucsd.edu

Faculty from the UCSD Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, nurse practitioner faculty from the UCSD Department of Family Medicine, and volunteer community physicians staff a fully-equipped medical van where they provide health screenings for homeless and indigent youth, ages twelve to twenty-four. In addition to treating sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and acute medical illness, they update immunizations, and offer tests for STDs, pregnancy, and HIV. Faculty also precept pediatric and internal medicine residents at the site. The van is operated from the Logan Heights Teen Health Center three nights a week.

UCSD Medical Center/Cesar Chavez Elementary School Partnership
UCSD Medical Center
402 Dickinson Street, Suite 440
San Diego, CA 92103-8989
Contact: Pam Fletcher-Rice, Community Relations Coordinator
(619) 543-2671 pfletcherrice@ucsd.edu

This partnership with the San Diego City School District enhances and promotes health and science through shared time and resources. Curriculum materials, scientists, and other resources are provided to help prepare students careers in science and research.

UCSD Pediatric Pulmonary and Cystic Fibrosis Center
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8448
Contact: Michael J. Light, M.B., B.S., Division Head—Pulmonary Medicine—Department of Pulmonary Medicine
(619) 294-6125

This center features a specialized team of doctors, nurses, nutritionists and respiratory therapists who care for infants, children, and adolescents with asthma, apnea, and all types of lung disease. It offers special programs for individuals and families affected by cystic fibrosis.

UCSD Women’s, Children, & Family Center
150 5th Ave., Ste. 300
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 543-8080

The UCSD Women’s, Children & Family Center provides HIV public health programs, housing, case management, early intervention, HIV testing, consumer counseling, and inmate health services to the community. Staff from the center also collaborate with the County Office of AIDS Coordination.

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