Board-Certified Pediatric Endocrinologist · 32 Years in South Florida
Growth, puberty, thyroid. The questions that wake parents up at night. Dr. Freedman has answered them for South Florida families for over three decades. New patients are seen within two weeks, by the same specialist, every visit.
However your family ends up here, a first concern, a second opinion, or moving care across town, the door is open and the wait is short.
An unhurried hour to actually listen. We talk through your child's growth, development, and the questions that brought you in. No clipboard rushing, no rotating trainees. Most new patients are seen within two weeks.
Schedule a first visitThe specialist your child saw on day one is the same one who sees them at every follow-up. Growth charts, lab trends, and the small details that matter, tracked by one person, year over year.
See why that mattersFor families managing growth hormone therapy, thyroid conditions, or other chronic endocrine care. A steady hand from diagnosis through the teen years and the transition into adult care.
Talk through next stepsMost parents land here after months of waiting at a big hospital system. Here's what's different in plain terms.
For the first time, I left a specialist's office feeling heard instead of rushed. Dr. Freedman took an hour to explain our daughter's growth curve in plain language, answered every question I had, and still scheduled our follow-up the following week.R.B. · Pembroke Pines
Our son has been seeing Dr. Freedman since he was six. He is twelve now, and it is the same doctor every visit. That is the part that matters to us.J.C. · Weston
Twelve years with Dr. Freedman managing our daughter's thyroid. He remembers her by name the second she walks in.S.P. · Miramar
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Over three decades of focused practice in growth, puberty, and thyroid conditions, with deep expertise in adrenal and pituitary care.
Evaluation and treatment for children with short stature, tall stature, failure to thrive, or unusual growth patterns. Dr. Freedman has treated over 20,000 children with growth hormone therapy across his career.
Evaluation and management of early, delayed, or irregular pubertal development, and the family conversations that come with it.
Full-spectrum pediatric thyroid care, from routine hypothyroidism to autoimmune conditions and nodular disease.
Evaluation and long-term management of adrenal and pituitary conditions, including conditions where Dr. Freedman has particular diagnostic expertise.
First visits are scheduled long. Dr. Freedman reviews your child's growth records, medical history, and what's been worrying you, then explains what he sees in plain language a parent can take home and remember. Most parents tell us this is the longest they've ever spent with a specialist. That's on purpose.
Many families have been with Dr. Freedman from kindergarten backpacks through college bags. The same physician through every growth check, every adjustment, every annual visit. No rotating trainees, no covering physicians, no starting over with someone new.
For conditions where the signal is in the arc of change over years, growth, puberty, thyroid trends, this continuity is the care model. Not a nice-to-have.
When intervention is needed, Dr. Freedman manages the treatment plan personally. Growth hormone therapy, thyroid medication adjustments, and long-term monitoring happen under one roof, with one physician tracking the data and making the calls.
Dr. Samuel Freedman is a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist who has practiced in South Florida for 32 years. He is super-specialized in the areas of growth, puberty, and thyroid disorders in children and adolescents.
During that time, he has treated over 20,000 children with growth hormone therapy, more growth evaluations than any other solo practitioner in his field in the nation. He maintains active patients from across the United States and internationally, including families from Canada, Mexico, South America, Panama, and England.
Dr. Freedman is designated as a Key Opinion Leader by major pharmaceutical companies in the areas of growth and puberty. He serves as a professor at two medical schools and one nursing school, and has taught numerous medical students in his office practice.
He has authored articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and has been published in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and local newspapers. He has given numerous lectures to pediatricians and colleagues and has participated in advisory boards for pharmaceutical companies in the areas of growth and puberty.
Dr. Freedman personally sees every patient at each visit. There are no physician extenders, no rotating fellows, no covering physicians. Every family gets the same specialist, every time.
American Academy of Pediatrics · American Academy of Clinical Endocrinology · Pediatric Endocrine Society · Florida Medical Association · Broward County Medical Association · The Endocrine Society · American Medical Association
Answers to questions parents call about most often. If yours isn't here, call the office.
Dr. Freedman accepts referrals for growth evaluation, pubertal concerns, thyroid disorders, and adrenal/pituitary conditions. New patient appointments are typically available within two weeks. Fax referrals to 954-447-9893 or call 954-447-1198.
32 years in solo practice. Board certified. F.A.A.P., F.A.C.E. Key Opinion Leader designation. Professor at two medical schools. Published in peer-reviewed journals, Time Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
Guides on the topics parents call the office about most. Coming soon.
How pediatricians read growth charts, what the percentiles mean, and when something actually warrants further evaluation.
What to bring, what the visit will look like, and the questions parents tell us they wish they had asked on the way in.
What autoimmune thyroid disease looks like in children, how it is diagnosed and monitored, and what families tell us they wish they had known earlier.
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