Dr. Elizabeth Alderman joins host Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez to talk about birth control. They break down the different methods, how to know if your teen is ready and communication strategies for having honest, open conversations about contraception. Together, they dispel false claims about hormonal birth control and examine how recent restrictions to reproductive health are affecting teens.
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Elizabeth Alderman, MD, FAAP
 Dr. Elizabeth Alderman is a professor of pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology and women's health at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Eistein College of Medicine. Dr. Alderman is the Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore and Program Director Emeritus of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine. She is the founder of the Montefiore Adolescent Primary Care Initiative. Dr. Alderman's clinical interests include menstrual disorders, particularly heavy menstrual bleeding, contraception for adolescents, confidentiality in adolescent health care, eating disorders and overall adolescent sexual health.
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Theme music composed by Doug Nagel.
The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics.