New to Area and Looking for a Great Pediatrician

Dr. Danny Plax at the Children's Clinic is fantastic. The Children's Clinic is on Ladue Road just minutes away from University City. Their telephone number is ###-###-####.
Good luck and welcome to St. Louis!

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Welcome to St. Louis! I take my 6 month old son and 2 1/2 yr daughter to Southwest Pediatrics. They are in the city, on Landsdowne, but every doctor there is wonderful. We go to Dr. Schmidt, and my kids love him (as do we). He is very easy to talk to, and very thorough. We have seen pretty much every dr. there, and we are happy with all of them. Sorry if this is a repeat, didn't read the other responses.

We go to Metropolitan Pediatrics (Dr. Diehl, who I believe only takes newborns as new patients) and we have been very happy with them. There are 5 ped's in the practice and I've met all of them. They're right near 270 and 44. ###-###-####. I would highly recommend!!!

Also, there is a new issue of StLouis Magazine out now with a list of 2009 Best Doctors (includes ped's.) I saw it at the grocery store last night. Here is the website for the magazine, but the article won't be on there until the hard copy is off news stands. I've used the Best Doc list before and was happy with it.

http://www.stlmag.com/

Good luck and welcome to Saint Louis!

I'll give a second recommendation for Esse Peds on Watson Road. We see Dr. Terrill regularly, and we love her. She has young kids herself, understands parenting and medicine, and spends a lot of time with us. We've also been very happy with the other doctors in the office.

A.,

A great pediatrician is Dr. Paul Simons at Forest Park Pediatrics. He is very knowledgable and great with children. My sister-in-law brings her daughter from Illinois to see Dr. Simons as she is extremely particular.

we love our pediatrician, Dr. Gary Sherman in Creve Coeur, and we drive all the way from St. Charles because he's worth it. He takes plenty of time with our twins, and is just so caring. ###-###-####
www.newpeds.com

Welcome to St. Louis!
M.

Good Morning A.! Welcome to St. Louis!!

My daughter's pediatrician is very personable and it great with my little one.
Dr. Patricia Amato
ESSE Health Care
9930 Watson Rd
Crestwood, MO 63126
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There are several doctors in this office, if she's not available. Everyone there - doctors, nurses and medical office personnel are SO NICE!!! They have really good hours too! M - Th 7 am - 7 pm, Fri 8 - 4:30 and Sat 9 - 11:30.
My OB's medical office used to be at Barnes Jewish. Her nurse practitioner is the one that recommended Dr. Amato to me while I was trying to find a pediatrician when I was pregnant. When I met Dr. Amato for the first time, there was just something that felt right about her - kind of like I had known her forever!!
Good luck and again welcome to St. Louis!!

Welcome to STL! We see Dr. Schmandt at Forest Park Pediatrics four our 13 month old daughter--http://www.forestparkpeds.com, but we've seen four of the doctors there and we like the practice very much. Dr. Ruby-Ziegler is also great. They have very helpful nurses and Saturday hours and cooperate with Barnes Children's very well. In fact, we just took a tour of tests at Children's yesterday on Dr. Schmandt's orders. ;) Best of luck!

Welcome to U City! I live here too & love it! We live near some docs also in residency at Barnes. Anyway, we take our almost 2 year old daughter to The Children's Clinic in Clayton, however, it's only about 8 minutes from my house. It's in a black building off of Ladue Road (called Maryland in downtown Clayton)but their address is still 8888 Ladue Road. It's east of I-170. They have about 5 doctors & we see Christopher Molitor. He's great & has several kids himself. I know many families who go there & have never heard a bad thing. Their number is ###-###-####. It's close, they have 2 enterances (1 for sick/1 for healthy) & always have openings! Welcome to town! If you're looking for a play group (or knitting group), let me know! Mine is always welcoming new people w/kids ranging in age from newborn up to 3.5.

A.,
I recommend the pediatricians at Forest Park Pediatrics. They are at 4488 Forest Park, a block east of the B-J complex, phone # ###-###-####. That will not be too far to drive from U City. We have Dr. Patricia Wolff, but also have seen many times Dr. Paul Simons, Dr. Epstein, Dr. Ruby-Ziegler (there are other doctors, too). Several of the pediatricians are consistently on the St. Louis' best doctors list. All are great with kids, and I have felt very comfortable with the tratment and expertise there. Not to mention that the St. Louis Children's Hospital is just a couple of blocks from there - convenient for tests/x-rays/procedures. Good luck!

Hi A., Welcome to St. Louis!! I can understand where your at right now in your life. My son goes to a wonderful ped name Jennifer Quinn. I go to the Ballas location which is off of highway 40 (but half of it is closed down right now due to construction) But you can get there by highway 270 also. Anyway she's wonderful and we love her!! Her phone number is ###-###-####. She also has another location off of Bayless which is in the Lemay area. Anyway I think you would like her, good luck in your search and welcome again to St. Louis!!

welcome! we also live in u. city, and my husband is an attending at Barnes. we have three children ages 4 1/2, 2 and 5 months and LOVE the children's clinic. we use dr. atkinson and dr. moliter. good luck! :)