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Biographical Sketch
Allison W. Brindle, M.D., is a Staff Member with Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital Department of General Pediatrics. She sees patients at Main Campus.
In addition to her clinical practice, she also participates in a number of educational activities. She is Director of the Pediatric Residency Program; Director for the Pediatric Resident Continuity Clinic; Preceptor for the Pediatric Resident Rotation, Community Pediatrics and Child Health Advocacy; and General Pediatric Residency Education Coordinator. She also facilitates a communication skills class for first year medical students at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and participates in the third-year clerkship Pediatric Medical Student Lecture Series in which she lectures on Pediatric Growth & Nutrition.
Dr. Brindle completed her undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude in biology with a minor in English literature at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., and earned her medical degree from University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Her post-graduate training includes a pediatric internship and residency at Shands Children’s Hospital at the University College of Medicine in Gainesville, Fla.
Dr. Brindle is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics; the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics for which she serves on the Board of Directors and as Co-Chairperson on the Young Physician and Resident Committee; and the Academic Pediatric Association for which she served three years as Co-Chairperson of the Advocacy Training Special Interest Group and currently is co-chair of Region V. Dr. Brindle is part of the Academic Pediatric Association Educational Scholars Program, which is offered to members of the association who wish to earn a Certificate of Excellence in Educational Scholarship.
Her specialty interests include pediatric overweight/obesity prevention, immunizations, preventive care, care of the infant through adolescent.
Specialty Interests
child health advocacy., childhood and adolescent obesity, general pediatrics, immunizations, Preventive Medicine
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