Dr. Robert William Blum MD
Adolescent Specialist | Adolescent Medicine
615 N Wolfe St Baltimore MD, 21205About
Dr. Robert Blum is an adolescent specialist practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Blum works with patients who are in the adolescent age, or generally between the ages of 11 and 19 years old. As an adolescent-specialist, Dr. Blum treats many common health issues that pre-teens and teenagers face, from mental, to behavioral, to physical conditions. Some of these issues may include growth and hormone problems, sports injuries, eating disorders, substance abuse and more. Adolescent specialists perform medical exams, histories and diagnostic tests, and develop individualized treatment plans for each patient.
Education and Training
Howard University College of Medicine 1973
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Promoting school connectedness: evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of
- Vulnerability, risk, and protection.
- Introduction. Improving transition for adolescents with special health care needs from pediatric to adult-centered health care.
- Work group V: increasing the capacity of schools, neighborhoods, and communities to improve adolescent health outcomes.
- Adolescent health in the Caribbean: risk and protective factors.
- Gender differences in juvenile violence: a report from Add Health.
- Transition to adult health care for adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions: position paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.
- Adolescent health in the Caribbean: a regional portrait.
- Uganda AIDS prevention: A,B,C and politics.
- The health of young people in a global context.
- Reducing risk, increasing protective factors: findings from the Caribbean Youth Health Survey.
- A pilot of audio computer-assisted self-interview for youth reproductive health research in Vietnam.
- Individual and environmental impacts on sexual health of Caribbean youth.
- Youth in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Enduring consequences of parenting for risk behaviors from adolescence into early adulthood.
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