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Services Provided
The General Pediatric Clinic: All faculty members (four pediatricians and
a nurse practitioner) see patients every weekday. This provides a source of comprehensive
out- patient medical care for a variety of children from allover West Alabama,
many of whom have complicated medical problems. It also serves as a primary teaching
experience for medical students and family practice residents.
Monday-Friday, 8:30-5:00
Pediatrics Clinic Staff
The ADHD Clinic: The University of Alabama's ADHD Multidisciplinary Clinic
provides care for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The
ADHD Clinic, which began operations iI1 1999, is a collaborative project involving
the Pediatric and Psychiatry Departments of the medical school and The University
of Alabama's School of Social Work, College of Education, and Dept. of Psychology
The clinic meets weekly throughout the year serving children from 6 to 18 years
of age. Over 200 children are receiving services via this clinic with 40 new
patients assessed each year.
Monday afternoons each week
The Perinatal High-Risk Followup Clinic: This is a multispecialty clinic involving
Pediatrics, Social Services, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Developmental
and Hearing specialists, and nutritional services. The patients seen in this
clinic are graduates from the regional high risk nursery and include a number
of medically fragile children. The clinic is held each Wednesday afternoon.
The West Alabama Child Medical Evaluation Center: This is a forensic pediatric
clinic for medical assessment of children who have come to the attention of local
authorities as potential victims of child abuse. In operation since 1991, it
bas served over 500 children from 10 counties in West Alabama. It is one of only
four clinics of this type in Alabama (the others are in Huntsville, Birmingham,
and Mobile) and is second only to Huntsville in longevity. The clinic is equipped
with a sophisticated colposcope and computer software to enable the doctors (Taylor
and Cockrum) to record, study, and conduct ongoing research and quality assurance
with other forensic pediatricians in the state in an effort to improve Our ability
to assist these most unfortunate and needy children.
The Pediatric Cardiology Clinic: This regional outreach service is conducted
one day each month. It is staffed by a Pediatric Cardiologist and a nurse from
The Children's Hospital of Alabama along with their own echocardiography machine.
It serves a number of children from West Alabama, enabling them to get these
needed services without having to travel to Birmingham.
The Regional Sickle Cell Clinic meets eight days a year, bringing a team of
services from Children's Hospital including a Pediatric Hematologist to the Capstone
Medical Center to serve children from across West Alabama with sickle cell disease.
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