The team at the GROW Clinic consists of a pediatrician, a nurse, a nutritionist, a psychologist and a social worker. Other team members such as occupational therapists and other specialists may be brought in on an as needed basis.
Hans Kersten, MD, Medical Director
Associate Professor, Drexel University School of Medicine
| Hans B. Kersten, MD graduated from Temple University School of Medicine and did his residency at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. He is the Medical Director of the Grow Clinic and is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Kersten has been accepted into the Pediatric Academic Societies Educational Scholars Program, is a Children’s Environmental Health Faculty Champion of the National Environmental Education and Teaching Foundation (NEETF), |
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and a member of the Mayor’s Lead Primary Prevention Task Force and Philadelphia Citizens’ for Children and Youth in Philadelphia. He is the Medical Director of Reach Out and Read at St. Christopher’s and is on the Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia coalition Advisory Committee. In addition to failure-to-thrive (FTT), his research interests include lead poisoning, resident education and teaching Evidence-Based Medicine.
David Bennett, PhD
Psychologist
Associate Professor, Drexel University College of Medicine
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David Bennett received his BA from Albany University, PhD from Indiana University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at the University of Pennsylvania / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Bennett directs the GLAD child development research program in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Drexel University College of Medicine. In addition to growth and feeding, his research interests include parent and child adjustment to chronic medical problems; parenting; environmental stress; and the effects of prenatal substance exposure on child development.
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