About the Center

In 1975, the Children’ Chronic Disease Center was founded by Dr. Geraldine A. Stramski (Hyman), with the financial help of the Children’s Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.  In 1991 the center was renamed in her honor.  As a dedicated pediatrician, Dr. Stramski recognized the need for a team approach for the multiplicity of problem so often encountered with children’s developmental conditions.  The Stramski Developmental Center, under the direction of Medical Director Dr. Gary Feldman, is a place where children with sometimes invisible, but serious life-long conditions come to get help.

The Stramski Developmental Center is a special needs center created to help children and families deal with conditions like autism, cleft lip and palate, learning problems, mental retardation, developmental delays and birth defects.  The center also has a sleep disorders and international adoption clinic.  For many of these children their conditions are invisible, serious and life-long and they face almost insurmountable challenges.  Very few of these situations are “quick-fixes” and require numerous visits and extensive pre-consult and post consult work.  Children need advocates and for many of our patients, parents are not effective in this role primarily due to cultural, educational and language differences.  The Stramski Center fills this gap by facilitating access to services and monitoring progress.  Using a multidisciplinary approach, the center is able to provide individualized care to help children reach their optimum potential.

About Dr. Gary Feldman

Gary Feldman, M.D, is the medical director of the Stramski Center at Miller Children’s Hospital. Dr. Feldman brings more than 15 years of experience to Miller Children’s Hospital.

“I liked the vision of Miller Children’s Hospital, the people and the growth potential for the Stramski Center,” says Dr. Feldman. “I’ve never seen a team of people who are so nice to work with, yet so incredibly dedicated to caring for kids.”

Before joining Miller Children’s Hospital, Dr. Feldman spent five years at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. His areas of specialty include developmental and behavioral pediatrics, sleep disorders and international adoption medicine.

Dr. Feldman received his bachelor of medicine and surgery degree from the University of Cape Town School of Medicine in South Africa and completed his residencies in pediatrics at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in South Africa and Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Ohio.

He is a member of the American Medical Association, Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Feldman has also given more than 20 presentations on a variety of topics including pediatric sleep disorders and international adoption.