Adolescent Medicine
Adolescence and young adulthood are critical times in life when people go through big changes in their bodies, emotions, social lives and thinking. During these years, teens face many challenges as they work to become independent and figure out their identity. This time can also come with a higher willingness to take risks, which can lead to riskier behaviors. At the Adolescent Medicine program, we support teens and their families in dealing with these challenges by focusing on their strengths and providing care that centers on the individual.
Our team of doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, nutritionists and psychologists works together to help improve the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults. We provide care that is complete, sensitive to past trauma, and respectful of each person's culture. We treat every patient as a unique person with their own needs.
We do not encourage teens to keep secrets from their parents or guardians. We know that loved ones can play a big role in helping teens make healthy choices. While we ask that you trust us to manage sensitive information in the years ahead, our goal is the same as yours — to help your teen be as healthy as possible.
Adolescent Medicine Specialties
Services we offer include:
Primary care services
- Preventive health exams, well checks and immunizations
- Sports physicals
- Same-day sick appointments
- Management of common teen behavioral and physical health conditions
Specialty care services
Evaluation and management of mental/behavioral health concerns including:
- Anxiety
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Depression
- Trauma-related stress
- Self-harm
- Sleep problems
- Substance use
- Suicidal thoughts
- Problematic Internet and media use
- Evaluation and management of restrictive, avoidant, purging and binge eating behaviors in our Eating Disorder Clinic.
- Nutritional counseling and weight management
Reproductive, sexual health care, including:
- Management of period concerns, including missed periods, no periods, irregular periods, and heavy periods
- Vaginal symptoms including vaginal discharge, irritation
- Pelvic exam including cervical cancer screening
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome
- Heavy menstrual bleeding clinic
Birth Control & Beyond
Our Birth Control and Beyond Clinic is partially funded by Title X grants and provides comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services at low-cost, which include:
- Contraception (birth control) services
- Pregnancy testing and counseling
- Sexually transmitted disease services
- Preconception health services
MyChart Information
We encourage our patients to sign up for the UK HealthCare MyChart patient portal so they can access healthcare records and communicate with their providers.
We understand that privacy is important to our patients. Our clinic follows both federal and Kentucky rules about keeping teenagers' health information private. Privacy guidelines, MyChart and proxy access will be discussed during the patient’s first visit with our clinic.
