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Our Practice
Our Team

Our Team

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We are a group of board-certified pediatricians dedicated to providing the best of care for children ages birth through 21.  We welcome and treasure families from our richly diverse Washington suburbs.

 

Our office offers well child care, immunizations, and the latest in treatment and advice for childhood and adolescent illnesses.  We take a special interest in care of the newborn, breastfeeding, child development and behavior.  Asthma, allergies, common infections, obesity and ADHD and other learning challenges are some of our areas of interest.

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MEDICAL HOME

Our office should be your first contact when your child is sick. Please call our office before visiting an urgent care center or seeing a specialist.  We can guide you to those specialists we feel provide the best care to children. Please ask that any specialist you see sends a report directly to our office.  Your child’s health is optimized and consistent with care coordinated by your child’s pediatrician.

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VACCINES

Our office follows the schedule set by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). We feel most strongly that vaccines continue to be a primary part of our mission in ensuring the health of children. We discourage any deferral of vaccines for patients in our practice.

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ANTIBIOTICS

Our office is committed to the judicious use of antibiotics. We follow evidence-based guidelines that provide appropriate treatment and avoid unnecessary treatment.  This decreases many risks, including risks of resistance and side effects.

 

APPOINTMENTS

We attempt to allocate adequate time for every appointment we schedule. Please inform us of all of your concerns when scheduling an appointment so that we can allot the right amount of time to thoroughly address each issue. We hold open same-day time slots for sick visits. We request that you call as soon as possible if you cannot keep an appointment so that time may be made available to other children in need. Well visits can be scheduled up to 6 months in advance.

 

​ADDRESSING ADDITIONAL TOPICS AT WELL VISITS

Please remember that preventive care is a vital part of child health. We approach well visits with a list of topics to address. If you anticipate discussing other, ongoing health issues at a well visit check-up, one of two things will occur: 

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(1) if time does not permit, you will be asked to schedule a follow-up visit to address that issue

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(2) if time permits, we will address, manage, and document the concern(s).  Your insurance company will assess a co-pay for the concerns that are outside the scope of well care.

 

​TIMELINESS FOR EVERYONE

We make every attempt to keep to our schedule as we know that your time is valuable. Please call our office if you are running late. If you have missed your appointment time, we may have to reschedule your child.

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Physicians

Our Physicians

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Denise DeConcini M.D.

Dr. DeConcini graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in History.  She received her medical degree from George Washington University and completed her pediatric residency at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC.

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Judy Wang M.D.

Dr. Wang graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Biology.  She earned a master's degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.  She received her medical degree from the University of Maryland, where she remained to complete her pediatric residency.  She joined the practice in 2006.

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Elizabeth Gilliam-Hertz M.D.

Dr. Gilliam graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Philosophy. She received her M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where she earned an award for excellence in Pediatrics.

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Sarah Schooler M.D.

Dr. Schooler graduated with honors from Harvard University with a degree in Psychology. She received her medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha.


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Emily Yee M.D.

Dr. Yee graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Biology. She worked for an educational company in many roles from educator to business manager before attending New Jersey Medical School. Her pediatric training was completed at Children's National Medical Center in 2012 at which point she joined the practice.

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Cara Lichtenstein M.D.

Dr. Lichtenstein was born and raised in New York and is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Mathematics.  After undergraduate, she returned to NY for medical school at Mt Sinai School of Medicine and pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.

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Rachel Zang M.D.

Born and raised in Montgomery County, Maryland, Dr. Zang graduated Magna Cum Laude in History and Science from Harvard College.  She then received her medical degree from the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, where she...

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Jamila Marcus Potter M.D.

Dr. Marcus joined Silver Spring Pediatrics in June 2016.  She graduated from Spelman College with a degree in Biology.  Dr. Marcus received her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine and earned pediatric departmental honors. 


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Jade Sanders, M.D.

Dr. Sanders graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.S. in Nutritonal Sciences. She then earned a master’s degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and received her medical degree from The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Sanders went on to complete her pediatric residency at Children’s National Medical Center.

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