Dr. Carol A Ford MD
Adolescent Specialist | Adolescent Medicine
3401 Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Carol Ford is an adolescent specialist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Ford 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. Ford 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
University of Florida College of Medicine 1983
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Limiting confidentiality of adolescent health services: what are the risks?
- Reactions of young adults to September 11, 2001.
- Testing for chlamydial and gonorrheal infections outside of clinic settings: a summary of the literature.
- The HIPAA privacy rule and adolescents: legal questions and clinical challenges.
- Screening for suicide risk in adults: a summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
- Adolescent depression and suicide risk: association with sex and drug behavior.
- Infrequency of sexually transmitted disease screening among sexually experienced U.S. female adolescents.
- Young age at first sexual intercourse and sexually transmitted infections in adolescents and young adults.
- Predicting adolescents' longitudinal risk for sexually transmitted infection: results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
- Which comes first in adolescence--sex and drugs or depression?
- Comparison of self-reported and test-identified chlamydial infections among young adults in the United States of America.
- More evidence supports the need to protect confidentiality in adolescent health care.
- Masculine beliefs, parental communication, and male adolescents' health care use.
- Evaluation of risk score algorithms for detection of chlamydial and gonococcal infections in an emergency department setting.
- "Let's Talk About Sex": pilot study of an interactive CD-ROM to prevent HIV/STIS in female adolescents.
Treatments
- Malnutrition
- Pain
- Menstrual Cramps
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