
Overview
As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a doctor. Specifically, I wanted to be just like my own pediatrician, someone who somehow managed to make me feel better even when I had chicken pox or a broken arm. During my training, I realized that, in order to be the best pediatrician possible, I needed to learn more about how to treat and prevent infections. Consequently, I decided to do a month-long elective in pediatric infectious diseases. I was hooked! I love the combination of patient care and research that I have as a pediatric infectious diseases doctor at Duke.
Dr. Smith is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Smith is currently accepting new patients.
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Locations
2301 Erwin Rd, Durham, NC 27710
Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center
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Duke Children's Health Center Infectious Diseases Clinic
I’m a pediatric infectious diseases specialist. The patients that I see are primarily very immune compromised children, so premature infants with severe infection, children with HIV, and children who had a stem cell transplant or chemotherapy and are at high risk for infection. My clinical care focuses on providing ideal therapy and ideal dosing to help prevent severe neurologic injury after infections in premature infants. With premature infants, they can’t tell you their symptoms and there’s no one perfect answer with dosage, so the medicine is really as much art as it is facts. And that’s really my favorite part of my job – figuring out the right dose for that patient and using that knowledge to help the next patient who comes into the unit. Outside of work, I participate in Olympic weightlifting, CrossFit, and baseball with my wife and four children. Dr. Benjamin is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Neonatal Herpes, Neonatal Sepsis, Bacterial Meningitis, and Infantile Neutropenia. Dr. Benjamin is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and American Board Of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Benjamin is currently accepting new patients.
Duke Children's Health Center Infectious Diseases Clinic
As a Pediatric Infectious Diseases doctor, I am a pediatrician with additional training in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infections in children. Specifically, I have a special interest in caring for children with conditions that impact the immune system (including cancer, organ transplant, and primary immunodeficiencies) and place them at high risk for infectious complications. Her clinical expertise encompasses Infantile Neutropenia. Dr. Hendricks is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics. Dr. Hendricks is currently accepting new patients.
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