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About Lawrence B. Palevsky, MD, FAAP

Dr. Palevsky is a board certified pediatrician who received his medical degree from the NYU School of Medicine in 1987. He completed a three year pediatric residency in 1990 at the Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC, and a one year fellowship at Bellevue Hospital-NYU School of Medicine in the pediatric outpatient department and emergency room.

His first full-time job was working as a pediatrician in the emergency room of Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center in the Bronx, NY from 1991-1995. From January 1994 until June 1996, Dr. Palevsky worked on weekends, covering the private practice of 3 pediatricians on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Dr. Palevsky served as the Chief of the Pediatric Acute Care Unit at NYC's Lenox Hill Hospital from 1995-1998. He continued on in the Department of Pediatrics at Lenox Hill until March 2000, when he left to practice as the holistic integrative pediatrician for the Center for Health & Healing, an integrative and complementary care medical facility affiliated with the Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC.

In October 2002, Dr. Palevsky left his practice at the Center for Health and Healing and took a 2-year personal sabbatical. Starting in February 2005-present, he has been practicing part-time at the Northport Wellness Center in Northport, Long Island, and in NYC, offering consultations and educational programs to families who are looking for counseling in preventive and holistic health, nutrition for adults, infants and children, safe alternative treatments for common and difficult to treat acute and chronic pediatric and adult conditions, vaccination controversies, mindful parenting and rethinking the current medical paradigm. Dr. Palevsky continues to provide wellness care and check-ups to families looking for a holistic pediatrician.

Dr. Palevsky’s clinical practice since 1991 includes experience in pediatric emergency and intensive care medicine, in-patient and out-patient pediatric medicine, neonatal intensive care medicine, newborn and delivery room medicine and conventional, holistic and integrative pediatric private practice in NYC.

Dr. Palevsky is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Past-President of the American Holistic Medical Association (www.holisticmedicine.org), co-founder and President of the Holistic Pediatric Association: The Alliance for Family Health and Wellness (www.hpakids.org), a Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine (www.holisticboard.org) and a medical advisory board member to the Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC (www.naturalgourmetschool.org), Developmental Delay Resources (www.devdelay.org ), Families for Natural Living, the Holistic Moms Network (www.holisticmoms.org) and the National Vaccine Information Center (www.nvic.org).

Dr. Palevsky teaches holistic integrative pediatric & adolescent medicine to parents and medical and allied health professionals both nationally & internationally.

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