General Practitioners

• Pediatric Care
  Your children's health is our number one priority! At Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine of Cheshire, LLC, we are devoted to providing exceptional medical care that is state of the art for our young patients and their families. Your child’s health and well-being is our primary goal. Board Certified Pediatrician Dr. Jeannette Chinchilla is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has advanced specialized training in Behavioral and Developmental Pediatric Medicine.
• Primary Care
  Dr. Chinchilla attended Rutgers University for her pre-med undergraduate studies, and graduated from the Autonomous School of Medical Sciences. She completed her pediatric residency at the University of Connecticut Pediatric Primary Care Program. Her residency included training at the University of Connecticut, and Yale New Haven Hospital. She then received fellowship training in Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics. She continues her interest in teaching by precepting medical students and residents. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics, a member of the Connecticut State Medical Society, as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Chinchilla takes pride in the individualized care she provides to her patients and parents, in her solo pediatric practice.
• Infectious Diseases
  Disease prevention is the key to public health. It is always better to prevent a disease than to treat it. Vaccines prevent disease in the people who receive them and protect those who come into contact with unvaccinated individuals. Vaccines help prevent infectious diseases and save lives. Vaccines are responsible for the control of many infectious diseases that were once common in this country, including polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), rubella (German measles), mumps, tetanus, and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Vaccine-preventable diseases have a costly impact, resulting in doctor's visits, hospitalizations, and premature deaths. Sick children can also cause parents to lose time from work.
• Immunizations
  Before vaccines, many children died from diseases that vaccines now prevent, such as whooping cough, measles, and polio. Those same germs exist today, but babies are now protected by vaccines, so we do not see these diseases as often. protected by vaccines, so we do not see these diseases as often. Immunizing individual children also helps to protect the health of our community, especially those people who are not immunized. People who are not immunized include those who are too young to be vaccinated (e.g., children less than a year old cannot receive the measles vaccine but can be infected by the measles virus), those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons (e.g., children with leukemia), and those who cannot make an adequate response to vaccination. Also protected, therefore, are people who received a vaccine, but who have not developed immunity. In addition, people who are sick will be less likely to be exposed to disease germs that can be passed around by unvaccinated children. Immunization also slows down or stops disease outbreaks.