Pediatric Rheumatology
535 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
The Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at Hospital for Special Surgery is affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine, and provides complex and comprehensive diagnostic services for children with rheumatic diseases and related conditions.
Our expertise includes:
- juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- lupus
- pediatric scleroderma
- vasculitis of childhood
- Lyme disease
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Other pediatric rheumatology conditions
Virtually every medicine that is used by the adult rheumatologist - in the appropriate child, with very careful monitoring - is now used by our experienced pediatric rheumatologists with excellent outcomes. With new biologic therapies, many of them tested at Hospital for Special Surgery, along with physical therapy, the disease can be controlled and children can regain normal function.
What Our Patients Are Saying
Couldn’t be more pleased with my visit with Dr. Simmons and her staff. I was thoroughly informed and treated with care and redpect.
An excellent, caring, brilliant doctor.
Dr.Yeo is excellent she has been my doctor for over 16years. There is nothing I would not ask her for that she would not explain to me about my health i thank her for her for her service over the years.