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What to Expect During Your Visit

Learn what to expect before, during and after your Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology visit. 

Childhood Obesity Medicine Fellowship

The Childhood Obesity Medicine Fellowship provides the necessary clinical skills to evaluate and treat children and adolescents with obesity who are entering a bariatric surgical program or a medical and behavioral weight loss program.

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and Acute Chest Syndrome (ACS)

Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder. Acute chest syndrome is a group of symptoms that occurs when sickled cells clump together in the lungs.

Sleep Terrors and Sleepwalking

Sleep terrors and sleepwalking are related disorders of sleep that usually go away by the teen years. Sleep terrors are not the same as nightmares. Nightmares are bad dreams the child often clearly remembers the next day. 

Shingles

Shingles is an infection caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox.

Sickle Cell Trait

A person with sickle cell trait inherits one gene to make normal hemoglobin and another gene to make some sickle cell hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the part of the red blood cell that carries oxygen to different parts of the body. Sickle cell trait is not a disease and will never turn into a disease.

Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE)

Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis is a hip injury that involves the growth plate (physis) of the thigh (femur) bone. This injury occurs when the neck of the femur (metaphysis) moves in relation to the ball on the top part of the femur (epiphysis).

Pediatric Orthopedic Clinical Innovation Fellowship

Nationwide Children's Hospital's Orthopedic Center for Innovation is excited to offer a one-year Pediatric Orthopedic Innovation Fellowship for innovators who have completed their orthopedic surgery residency training and are interested in innovation initiatives within the field of orthopedic surgery.

Spondylolysis

Spondylolysis is a stress fracture of the vertebrae (back bones). The fracture does not involve the main weight-bearing part, or body of the vertebrae.