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Maryellen Flaherty-Hewitt, MD

Professor of Pediatrics (General Medicine)
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Interim Section Chief, General Pediatrics

Medical Director of Pediatric Primary Care

Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Pediatrics

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Professor of Pediatrics (General Medicine)

Interim Section Chief, General Pediatrics; Medical Director of Pediatric Primary Care; Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Pediatrics

Biography

Dr. Flaherty-Hewitt is a native New Yorker. She completed her undergraduate studies in Chemistry/Pre-Medicine at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. She received her MD from SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Cornell Medical School and also served a year as Chief Resident. She came to New Haven in 2002 working both at St. Raphael's and Yale New Haven Hospitals. She loves being a Pediatrician and values the relationships she has developed with families. She also values her role as an educator to new physicians. She lives in Hamden with her husband and 2 children.

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Resident and Chief Resident
New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center (2002)
MD
State University of New York Health Science Center (1998)
BA
College of the Holy Cross, Chemistry/ Pre-Medicine (1994)

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    Pediatric Faculty Honor Roll

Clinical Care

Overview

Maryellen Flaherty-Hewitt, MD, a pediatrician, draws on her childhood experience of being a self-described “terrible patient” as a way to help put parents and children at ease during visits and examinations. “I always tell parents who apologize for their children’s behavior at office visits that they wouldn’t believe what I put my mother when I was younger,” Dr. Flaherty-Hewitt says. “I was so afraid of going for exams and shots.”

But Dr. Flaherty-Hewitt eventually grew out of those fears, helped in part by her own pediatrician, who took care of her from infancy through her teenage years. “She was kind and caring, and I always thought if I could be like her, that would be a good thing,” she says.

Growing up as an only child, Dr. Flaherty-Hewitt gravitated to other children. “My father noticed how much I liked other kids, and when I was 7, he said, ‘You should be a doctor someday.’ I thought of my pediatrician as a great role model right away.”

Today, Dr. Flaherty-Hewitt is medical director of Yale New Haven Hospital’s Pediatric Primary Care Center, where she values building relationships with families. “If a mother calls me with a question about her child, I know the whole family and where they are coming from,” she says. To her, there is no such thing as a silly question. “Whether it’s your first child or your sixth, that’s what we are here for and we never want parents to hesitate to call us,” she says.

She’s grateful when parents thank her at the end of a visit. “Whether it’s for listening to them or finding out what is wrong with their child, you feel like you are making a difference,” she says.


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