A membership pediatric practice for South Florida families, led by Gaston Ofman, MD — double board-certified in Pediatrics and Neonatology, founder of the Pediatric Developmental Health Institute, and a published clinical researcher. One physician. A small panel. A direct line, day or night.
We built this practice on a simple inspiration — to connect with parents in service of their children’s fullest health, and to be, for each child, a safe and steady pediatrician worth trusting.
Three commitments that shape how the practice actually works, day to day. Each is a deliberate choice about what we do — and what we leave for someone else.
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I’m a double board-certified pediatrician and neonatologist. Before I see your child for an ear infection or a school physical, I spent more than a decade in the rooms where medicine asks its hardest questions — neonatal intensive care units, research labs, and the long quiet of follow-up clinics. I trained at Northwestern in Chicago and at UT Southwestern in Dallas, after earning my medical degree with a Diploma of Honor from Favaloro University in Buenos Aires, where I grew up.
I’m a Society for Pediatric Research Fellow, have served as Assistant Professor of Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, and founded the Pediatric Developmental Health Institute (pdhi.org). My peer-reviewed work has appeared in the{' '} New England Journal of Medicine, the{' '} Journal of Infectious Diseases, and{' '} Free Radical Biology & Medicine, among others.
I built this practice because the kind of attention I learned in the NICU — slow, careful, evidence-based, and honest about uncertainty — belongs on the ordinary days, too. For the parents who keep a list of questions on their phone, and for the children who deserve a doctor patient enough to be trusted.
{/* From the NICU — image strip */}Years of practice, in the rooms where the smallest signs matter most. The same attention now belongs to the ordinary days.
When a child shouldn’t leave bed — and on the ordinary days when leaving bed simply isn’t worth it — the practice comes to you. From Coral Gables to Key Biscayne, South Beach to Coconut Grove, the house call is part of the membership, not an upcharge.
Parenting today means navigating an avalanche of advice — podcasts, group chats, headlines, and a thousand strangers with confident opinions. The work of the practice is to help you separate signal from noise, and to make the best decision possible for your child.
Dr. Ofman’s peer-reviewed research is indexed on PubMed. The same standard of reading travels into every conversation with a member family.
View publications on PubMed →P arents arrive with screenshots, podcasts, and the well-meant advice of a hundred strangers. The work of the modern pediatrician is not to dismiss any of it — but to read it carefully, and to answer it carefully back.
Dr. Ofman’s years as a clinical and translational researcher mean the practice doesn’t hand you headlines — it hands you the underlying study, the limits of what it shows, and a plain-language read of what to actually do. That habit is the difference between an opinion and a decision you can stand behind.
PDHI is a non-profit Dr. Ofman founded to serve the children he first met in the NICU — and the families who carry them home. It provides comprehensive developmental follow-up for high-risk infants and children.
He continues to lead studies on neonatal and developmental outcomes, with results published in the peer-reviewed literature. The practice inherits this disposition: medicine that is curious before it is certain.
Membership is by annual fee, paid alongside your existing commercial insurance. The fee covers what insurance has never covered well — time, attention, access, and the long view. Pricing is shared in conversation.
Tell me a little about your family and what brings you here. I read every note personally and reply within one business day.
A small, regularly rotating selection of recent peer-reviewed pediatric publications — chosen because they meaningfully affect parenting decisions, with the takeaway summarized in plain language. Updated monthly.
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\u201cFor the small, steady work of raising a child.\u201d