Maryland’s Health Matters - Midtown - Spring 2018 - 7

Pediatric patient
Makayla and her
mom, Kimberly
Wright, watch as
Dr. Adam Spanier
examines her baby
brother, Ethan.

"He had all the equipment right in

patients and their families, as well as

the office for the exam," Wright says of

their clinical team, to ensure the delivery

Dr. Spanier. "That really impressed me."

of outstanding patient care."

Both preventive care like routine

As a result of those relationships and

checkups and acute care for illnesses

pediatricians' expertise, UM Pediatrics

and injuries like a scratched eye, the flu,

at Midtown patients receive the emotional

and constipation are important parts of

and physical care they need throughout

a child's well-being as they age. That's why

their young lives, she says.

UM Pediatrics at Midtown offers comprehensive care and access to specialty
care for children from birth to age 21.
Staffed by faculty physicians

LEADER IN PREVENTIVE
AND ACUTE CARE
As a partner with the University of

from the University of Maryland

Maryland School of Medicine and

School of Medicine and University

University of Maryland Children's Hospital,

of Maryland Children's Hospital, UM

UM Pediatrics at Midtown has access to

Pediatrics at Midtown is a Patient-

the latest research and technology. That

a referral and then take Makayla to the

Centered Medical Home-a nationally

means more advanced care for your family.

eye doctor to get her treated," Wright

recognized model that puts patients

says. "I'm used to running from this

at the forefront of care.

"I went in thinking that I would get

office here to that office there."

"We are committed to our patients,

"We are an academic practice, which
makes us a little different from others
out there because we're the ones teach-

and we go beyond just treating the

ing the next generation of pediatricians,"

ate professor of pediatrics at the

medical side," says Mutiat Onigbanjo,

Dr. Spanier says. "We know any new evi-

University of Maryland School of

MD, assistant professor of pediat-

dence and new treatment guidelines from

Medicine and medical director of

rics at the University of Maryland

the American Academy of Pediatrics, and

UM Pediatrics at Midtown, examined

School of Medicine and pediatrician

we quickly incorporate that into our care."

Makayla within minutes of her arrival

at UM Pediatrics at Midtown. "It's

and found a healthy, undamaged cornea.

about building a relationship with the

But Adam Spanier, MD, associ-

 
Find out why our pediatricians love their jobs at umm.edu/midtown/healthy.

The practice offers walk-in sick visits Monday through Friday mornings,
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