Our Clinics | Adolescent Medicine | UC Davis Children's Hospital

DIRECTED BY: Laura Kester Prakash, M.D., Adolescent Medicine

Our adolescent and young adult patients have unique health needs that set them apart from the general pediatric population. Behavioral patterns developed during adolescence and young adulthood strongly influences their health status during these stages but also affect long-term risk for developing chronic illness across the lifespan.

Our clinic provides care for:

• Mental health disorders
• Nutritional and weight-related disorders
• Reproductive health conditions
• Substance experimentation and use disorders
• Teen pregnancies
• Concerns in the home environment
• Behavioral and academic challenges
• Accidents leading to life-threatening injuries

This clinic is open to all adolescent and young adult referrals, including but not limited to consults for Adolescent Reproductive Health Services and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

DIRECTED BY: Laura Kester Prakash, M.D., Adolescent Medicine

This specialty clinic works to provide patients with a comprehensive assessment and personalized outpatient treatment plan that incorporates parents and guardians to achieve nutritional adequacy and medical stabilization for eating disorders.

This clinic also works closely with community providers to ensure that patients receive the appropriate psychological support necessary to return patients to their maximum function and quality of life.

CO-DIRECTED BY: Sindhura Batchu, M.D., Pediatric Gastroenterology and Laura Kester Prakash, M.D. Adolescent Medicine

The comprehensive fatty liver clinic provides carefully developed clinical management approaches that not only address the medical needs of these patients, but provides a personalized, developmentally age-appropriate strategy to adequately support the nutritional, psychosocial, and behavioral aspects that often intersect to increase a patient’s risk for disease onset as well as disease complication.

CO-DIRECTED BY: Armaiti Mody, M.D., Pediatric Endocrinology and Laura Kester Prakash, M.D., Adolescent Medicine

The multidisciplinary adolescent PCOS clinic is specifically designed to allow patients access to experts in the treatment of endocrine, reproductive and nutritional disorders, including polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), to ensure a comprehensive assessment and a management plan.