Metropolitan Pediatrics - Innovative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents

Now Offering COVID-19 Rapid Test

We are now offering rapid Covid-19 test which gives results in 15 minutes.

Welcome to Metropolitan Pediatrics

With offices near the Ballston area, Metropolitan Pediatrics is founded on the principle of providing innovative care to infants, children and adolescents in a patient-friendly setting with the highest of professional standards. At Metropolitan Pediatrics, we view each patient as a partner in care and are careful to provide each with the information needed in order to make the best possible treatment decisions.

Our practice is comprised of pediatricians Dr. Hiren Gandhi, Dr. Mary McCarthy, Dr. Caroline Schulz, Dr. Christine Tang, and Dr. Elizabeth Griffin. All of our pediatricians are board certified in their specialty.

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What's New?

We are excited to announce that we are now partnering with Metropolitan Breastfeeding to offer lactation services to our patients.

For more details, please call our office at 703-522-4780

COVID-19 Updates

Now Offering Telemedicine

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Getting Started

Administration of Vaccines

Here at Metropolitan Pediatrics we strictly follow the vaccine schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). We do not allow alternative vaccine schedules.

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He’s wonderful. He’s very calming and reassuring – to me and my daughter! He’s a very gentle person so my daughter responds well to his examinations. For the few medical problems we’ve had he has been very reassuring – listening to my concerns and then saying, “I’m sure she will be fine.” And she is! …

Julie T.

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He takes personal interest in each care and remembers lots of details about their health history. He has got a very good relationship with the kids. The kids don’t mind going to the doctor. If I call with a question, he is the one who returns the call and it is not the nurse or anybody else from his staff, who calls back….

Tim O.

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Attention Parents: Coronavirus Update

With the recent outbreak of Coronavirus, we here at Metropolitan Pediatrics, have implemented the following precautionary measures to screen for possible high-risk patients. If you have traveled to China, Italy, Iran, Japan or South Korea (or any areas with confirmed ongoing community transmission) in the past 14 days or have come in close contact with someone confirmed to have COVID-19 and have a fever and respiratory symptoms, please CALL the Arlington County Health Department at 703-228-5200 or the Virginia Department of Health at 1-877-275-8343.

PLEASE DO NOT COME DIRECTLY TO OUR OFFICE.

We ask that you follow our instructions to prevent the spread of COVID19 and keep our community safe. Thank you for your understanding.