The Teen and Young Adult Clinic provides comprehensive medical services for young adults ages 12-21 years old.  Our clinic staff understands the unique health issues that young adults face during this time in their lives.

General Health Services:
    •    General health checkups for school sports or employment
    •    Immunizations
    •    Urgent health care
    •    Evaluation and treatment of menstrual disorders, including amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, dysmenorrhea and excessive            menstrual bleeding
    •    Acne treatment
    •    Growth and development concerns
    •    Referrals for counseling for school, family, social and emotional issues

We also provide confidential reproductive health services, including:
    •    Birth control (condoms, pills, shots, patches or vaginal rings)
    •    Pregnancy counseling and testing
    •    Sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment
    •    HIV testing and counseling

For more information, please visit our website.

The Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program (CEDP) at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is the only comprehensive eating disorder program in Northern California that provides inpatient interdisciplinary specialty care for medically compromised children and adolescents with eating disorders, in addition to comprehensive outpatient services. The program, which has been treating patients successfully for more than 35 years, is directed jointly by the Stanford School of Medicine’s Division of Adolescent Medicine and Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Although most patients are from the Bay Area, the CEDP’s positive outcomes draw referrals from several western states.

An Expert Team
An internationally recognized team of adolescent medicine specialists and child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists work together to ensure that all patients and their families receive the highest level of comprehensive and evidence-based care. Staff members also include teachers; social workers; recreational, occupational, and physical therapists; dietitians; and psychiatrically and medically trained nurses. Teams collaborate to ensure that children can return to their normal lives as easily as possible.  

Innovative Treatment
Treatments provided by the CEDP at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford are based on the latest developments in the field and rely on the best medical evidence for safe and effective care. Treatment options for both inpatients and outpatients include:
    •    Diagnostic evaluation (medical and psychiatric)
    •    Medical management to prevent or detect complications
    •    Nutritional assessment and management
    •    Evaluation of growth and development
    •    Assessment and management of reduced bone mass and osteoporosis
    •    Psychiatric medication evaluation and monitoring
    •    Evidence-based individual and family psychotherapy, including:
        -    Individual therapy
        -    Cognitive-behavioral therapy
        -    Interpersonal therapy
        -    Psychodynamic therapy
        -    Family-based treatment
    •    Coordination with school
    •    Innovative treatments
    •    Group and milieu treatments

Outpatient Services
Packard Children’s outpatient medical and psychiatric clinics provide evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, ARFID and other eating disorders.  The Adolescent Medicine clinic provides medical assessment and monitoring and nutritional counseling.  The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry clinic provides individual and family psychological assessments and scientifically supported psychotherapies, including Family-Based Therapy (FBT-Maudsley-type), individual therapy (cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, and adolescent focused individual therapy).

Inpatient Services
The inpatient Comprehensive Care Program is a 15-bed unit that uses a multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of eating disorders. Patients who are medically compromised as a result of their eating disorder are admitted into this program.
The Comprehensive Care Program is designed to evaluate and treat medical disorders resulting from abnormal eating – disorders that may affect a patient’s heart, bones, liver, kidneys, brain, reproductive system and other organs. The program focuses on preventing long-term and life-threatening complications, and provides evaluation and treatment of these eating disorders and the psychiatric conditions that often accompany them, such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders. On average, the staff has more than 10 years of working with eating disorder patients.

Packard Children’s Adolescent Health Van is a health clinic on wheels that provides comprehensive primary care services to medically underserved teens.  The Adolescent Van offers services for youth, ages 12-25.  Services include physicals, immunizations, pregnancy testing, pelvic exams, sick care, HIV counseling and testing, family planning, nutrition counseling, mental health counseling, and health education.  Dr. Arash Anoshiravani from the Division of Adolescent Medicine is the Medical Director of the Adolescent Van.  Van personnel include Dr. Anoshiravani, a female nurse practitioner, a social worker, and a registered dietician.

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The Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology provides expert medical care to children and adolescents with gynecologic needs.
The Center provides sensitive care, and offers a comprehensive range of services for the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with gynecologic disorders including:

    •   Menstrual problems including too frequent bleeding, menstrual irregularities, or absent menstrual periods
    •   Hormonal problems such as delayed or early puberty and polycystic ovary syndrome
    •   Menstrual suppression for girls and teens with medical problems that are worsened by menstruation
    •   Genital injuries, vaginal infection, itching, rash, or pain
    •   Pelvic pain and endometriosis
    •   Ovarian cysts and masses
    •   Uterine, and vaginal genital anomalies
    •   Contraception including implants (Nexplanon) and intrauterine device (IUD) insertion
    •   Breast concerns

The Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology clinic is located  in the same clinical space as the Teen and Young Adult Clinic, offering opportunities for close collaboration with members of the Division of Adolescent Medicine.  Pediatric residents,  residents in gynecology, and fellows in Adolescent Medicine  participate in the care of girls and adolescents in the Pediatric and Adolescent clinic. 

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Stanford Children's Gender Clinic is a multidisciplinary clinic with providers from Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Endocrinology, and several other subspecialties - all in one central location at our Sunnyvale campus. Our clinic provides medical services for gender-diverse youth from childhood across young adulthood. Due to the different needs of gender-diverse youth across the age spectrum, our core providers offer several different services, including pausing pubertal development, gender-affirming hormonal therapy, menstrual suppression, contraception, sexual/reproductive health needs, acne treatment, primary care, as well as help and support with social, medical, and legal transitioning. Our expanded team provides services that include fertility preservation, mental health support, evaluation for eating disorders, and evaluation for gender-affirming surgical interventions (as appropriate for development). These extended services are available at the same site, or in close proximity to the Gender Clinic. All of our providers are members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). For more details including contact information, please visit our Gender Clinic's website at https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/service/gender.

The Eating Disorders Specialty Clinic at Vaden Student Health Center provides medical assessments and ongoing monitoring and support for Stanford University students who have eating disorders and related health issues. The clinic is staffed by physicians and dietitians from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Our specialists include Cynthia Kapphahn, M.D., Medical Director of the Comprehensive Eating Disorder Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, and Bryan Lian, RD, dietitian.

The Eating Disorders Specialty Clinic is offered Wednesday mornings at Vaden Student Health Center on the Stanford University campus, and additional days at the Eating Disorder Clinic in Sunnyvale.  New patients can schedule an appointment for medical assessment at the Eating Disorder Specialty Clinic at Vaden through the Vaden Health Center scheduling number, 650.725.1373.  Psychological assessment and treatment for eating disorders is offered through Vaden Student Health Center’s Counseling and Psychological Services Department, phone number 650.723.3785, or through the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic, Stanford Medical Center, phone number 650.498.4468.

For more information, visit their website.

The Divisions of General Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine, Child Psychiatry, and Pediatric Surgery work together in a collaborative, referral-based Pediatric Weight Clinic. This clinic serves to provide comprehensive medical and nutritional evaluations for overweight children and adolescents. The clinic is also supported by ancillary services at Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, such as nutrition, social work, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. This clinic focuses on the evaluation and management of patients with a significant degree of overweight and related conditions, including sleep apnea, diabetes, orthopedic problems, etc.

If you are interested in receiving an evaluation in this clinic, please ask your physician to contact the clinic coordinator at 650.736.2114.

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The Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall Medical Clinic provides preventive, primary, and specialty medical services for youth aged 12-18 years old who are involved in the juvenile justice system.  These youth are at the highest risk for morbidity and mortality and have many unmet medical, mental health, dental, and reproductive health needs.

Our specialized clinic performs comprehensive intake histories and physicals for all youth who enter the Juvenile Hall detention facility and provides the following services:

     • General health assessments
     • Vision and hearing screenings
     • Health education and health behavioral change counseling
     • Immunizations
     • Testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections
     • Evaluation and management of other sexual and reproductive health concerns and pregnancy
     • Initial evaluation for mental health concerns (including depression, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder,         psychosis, etc) and referrals to mental health clinicians and/or psychiatry as appropriate
     • Evaluation of dental problems and referral to in-house dentistry
     • Urgent care (traumatic and sports-related injuries, acute skin problems,
     • Consultation with the justice system and law enforcement, as appropriate to address the relevant health and mental health concerns of the adolescent
     • Close collaboration with the Department of Public Health to coordinate responses to broader infectious concerns (outbreaks, ongoing treatments outside of the custody setting, etc).