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 Patricia
Flanagan,MD
Patricia Flanagan, MD, is an expert in teenage parenting and adolescent
medicine. She is the director of the Teens with Tots Clinic at Hasbro
Children's Hospital, the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital
in Providence, Rhode Island. The intervention clinic provides social
and medical services to nearly 300 mothers under age 16 and their
babies, following their lives for up to five years. As director,
Flanagan oversees primary care for adolescent parents and their
children and addresses such issues as child care, parenting and
contraception.
She also studies the dynamics of adolescent motherhood, focusing
on adolescent development and transitions to becoming a young mother.
She has published numerous articles about high-risk parenting, contraception
use, and attachment and communication behaviors among children of
young mothers.
Flanagan has used her knowledge and experience to educate the community
about adolescent pregnancy and high-risk parenting, serving as president
of the National Organization of Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting
and Prevention from 2000 to 2003. She served on the Rhode Island
Governor's Commission on Early Intervention and was a member of
the reorganization of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth
and Families and the Rhode Island Attorney General's Task Force
on Sexual and Violent Physical Abuse of Children. She has also developed
a curriculum for teen parents with infants in the neurological intensive
care unit for the March of Dimes.
More recently, Flanagan led the creation of the Rhode Island Family
Advocacy Project, a collaboration between Hasbro Children's Hospital,
Rhode Island Legal Services, Brown Medical School, Roger Williams
Law School and Rhode Island Kids Count. The program makes legal
services available to low-income families at Hasbro Children's Hospital.
She has also led the creation of a state TEEN Pregnancy Prevention
Coalition.
Flanagan is the co-director of the medicine/pediatrics residency
program and attending physician for the adolescent medicine unit
at Hasbro Children's Hospital. In addition, she is an associate
professor of pediatrics at Brown Medical School, adjunct professor
of human development at Brown University and adjunct professor at
the University of Rhode Island School of Nursing.
Flanagan received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University
and her doctor of medicine from State University of New York, Buffalo.
She completed her residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital
in Buffalo, New York, and her ambulatory pediatrics fellowship at
Rhode Island Hospital. Flanagan also completed a SOROS Foundation/Medicine
as a professional fellowship in physician advocacy at Rhode Island
Kids Count, where she initiated the development of a statewide policy
agenda for infants and toddlers to improve early care and education.
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