Cathy L. Ward, MD

"Cathy Ward is a licensed, board-certified pediatrician with 24 years of clinical experience who has been practicing on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for the past twelve years. She graduated from college in 1989 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences and received her medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in 1993. She completed her internship and residency program at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore in 1996. Upon graduation, Dr. Ward toured the country for a year as a traveling pediatrician for a locum tenens company, working with the Amish, the military, teen clinics, and on Indian reservations. She then settled back into a well-respected private practice in Baltimore where she treated patients and served as a mentor for interns and residents at Johns Hopkins Medical School. She moved to New York City in 2001 to continue her career and has been in solo private practice for 10 years. T. 212.595.5501 www.BigApplePediatrics.com Home Our Services Meet Dr. Ward Contact Us The W.H.E.N. Program Testimonials SpecialEvents Forms Pediatric Choice Program Dr. Ward has been interviewed several times as a pediatric expert by major news media, including NBC, News Channel 4, Fox Business News, and Fox5News in New York City. She's has been quoted in Parents magazine, Ser Padres, and HOY newspaper and has given many presentations for local school children and parent organizations. She was honored for eleven consecutive years with the "Patient's Choice Award" for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, and also received the "Compassionate Doctor Award" for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Her research experience includes the "Hot Baby Study- Febrile Infants Less Than Eight Weeks of Age," in 1996. Dr. Ward was a captain in the United States Air Force. Her passions include animal fostering and rescue (currently volunteers with The Animal Project), sports, comedy clubs, and playing the drums."

"Welcome to Big Apple Pediatrics, where our guiding philosophy is to provide quality, compassionate, and thorough medical care through education, prevention, and wellness.As of March 16th, 2020, we are separating sick and well visit time slots in our office. We will only be seeing healthy children and non-infectious office visits from 9-12:00 because it's important that children remain up to date on their routine vaccinations. From 1-4pm, we will be seeing sick children who will be separated from each other by half-hour time slots and also immediately escorted into an exam room upon arrival. All exam rooms will be thoroughly cleaned between visits. We will continue to provide you with safe, thorough and quality care to keep your children safe during this time of coronavirus. Please call our office to schedule an appointment. Gladys, Nataliya, and Avanelle, are eager to assist you in any way. All messages will be returned as soon as possible. We look forward to providing top-quality medical care to all of our families. We'd like to offer a special thank you to Russell Fink, Sarah Hudnall, Marili, the Szczerbiak family, the Bonano family, the Mahoney family, and the Alger family for their very thoughtful contributions to the practice."