Specialties & Conditions Adolescent Primary Care Program
Adolescent Primary Care clinical group. 
Lurie Children’s Adolescent Primary Care Program provides comprehensive primary care and consultative care to adolescents and young adults. New patients for primary care are accepted between 12-22 years of age and all patients are followed until their 25th birthday. Our holistic approach to care encompasses a range of primary care treatments and services, as well as psychosocial development assessments and counseling to help our patients make a safe and successful transition to adulthood.
Listed below are many of the services our team provides. Please call 1.800.543.7362 (1.800.KIDS DOC) with any questions about conditions or subject matter not represented on these lists.
Adolescent Care
General Care
Screening & Counseling
Lurie Children’s does not have an eating disorder program. Patients and families interested in treatment options can contact the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Adolescent Primary Care nurses. 
Our unique and holistic approach to supporting patients gives us a more complete picture of our adolescent patients’ overall health – mentally and physically. We encourage our patients to engage with their healthcare and well-being, and we emphasize healthy communication and relationships.
Our specialists are highly qualified in adolescent health primary care concerns, while also specializing in supporting adolescents who are living HIV, are gender-nonconforming or transgender, engaged in substance use, need medication management, or experience bullying. The range of our services and expertise helps ensure our patients are receiving comprehensive care that meets their needs.
Lisa Simons, MD, is a physician in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics-Adolescent Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric training at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and her adolescent medicine fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Her clinical interests include health care for gender nonconforming youth, HIV prevention and treatment and health care for homeless youth.
Maria Rahmandar, MD, is an attending physician in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Lurie Children's Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is board-certified in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. She attended Princeton University (BA), Baylor College of Medicine (MD), Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Pediatric Residency) and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Adolescent Medicine Fellowship). Her clinical interests include adolescent substance use, mental health and long-acting birth control (implants & IUDs).
Jennifer Jensen, RN, MSN, CPNP, is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. She has been on staff at Lurie Children’s (formerly Children’s Memorial Hospital) since 2001. After having worked with HIV infected and affected adolescents and young adults in the Division of Special Infectious Diseases for more than 14 years, she joined the Division of Adolescent Medicine in December 2015. Jennifer received her BSN and MSN from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a nurse practitioner fellowship in Adolescent Health at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in June 2001. Her clinical interests include general adolescent health as well as providing care for gender non-conforming and transgender youth.
Our services are available at our Outpatient Services location at 1440 N. Dayton St. in Chicago. New patients for primary care are accepted between 12-22 years of age and all patients are followed until their 25th birthday.
If you’d like to request a first-time appointment with one of our specialists, call 1.800.543.7362 (1.800.KIDS DOC®) or visit our Appointments page for more information.
Your support is vital in helping us continue to make a difference in the lives of patients and families. The Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine relies on philanthropic funding to enhance its programs, services and research for adolescents and young adults. To learn more, please e-mail the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Foundation at foundation@luriechildrens.org or call 312.227.7500.
