Dr. Peter Christian Scheidt MD
Pediatrician
12730 Hall Shop Rd Highland MD, 20777About
Dr. Peter Scheidt is a pediatrician practicing in Highland, MD. Dr. Scheidt is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Scheidt diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Scheidt can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
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PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A new paradigm of injury intentionality.
- Sports injuries: An important cause of morbidity in urban youth. District of Columbia Child/Adolescent Injury Research Network.
- Child and adolescent injury research in 1998: a summary of abstracts submitted to the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association and the American Public Health Association.
- Violent injuries among adolescents: declining morbidity and mortality in an urban population.
- Multiple risk behavior and injury: an international analysis of young people.
- Letter: Questions safety of ultrasound.
- The National Children's Study of environmental effects on child health and development.
- Relationships between bullying and violence among US youth.
- Adolescent assault injury: risk and protective factors and locations of contact for intervention.
- A cross-national study of violence-related behaviors in adolescents.
- Headache, stomachache, backache, and morning fatigue among adolescent girls in the United States: associations with behavioral, sociodemographic, and environmental factors.
- Parental alcohol use, problem drinking, and children's injuries.
- Bicycle helmet law for children: a case study of activism in injury control.
- Factors associated with bicycle helmet use among young adolescents in a multinational sample.
- Assault-injured adolescents presenting to the emergency department: causes and circumstances.
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