Meet the staff:
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About Dr. Kristin Andrade…
Dr. Kristin Andrade was born and raised in Southern California. She first became interested in practicing medicine at six years old when her brother was born. Dr. Andrade was fascinated by the process of the expanding family and she even “scrubbed and gowned” in her childhood living room where she expertly delivered stuffed animals from her little sister’s shirt. Dr. Andrade graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with highest honors, majoring in Biological Sciences. She attended Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and was awarded the Clarence W. Burrill, Jr. Memorial Merit Award. Dr. Andrade continued her education at USC completing her Pediatric Residency at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. She was selected to be Chief Resident of the program upon her completion. During her final years of training, Dr. Andrade moved to the South Bay. She met her husband while surfing in Manhattan Beach and is now proud to be part of the Los Angeles Firemen’s family. Dr. Andrade's children attend school in Redondo Beach, and the family is active in surfing, soccer, baseball, and swimming. While she admits that being a mother of two has been challenging and rewarding in ways she never expected, she is grateful to bring first-hand experience to the care of her patients’ families. She prides herself in remaining approachable, genuine, and realistic in her practice of pediatric medicine. Dr. Andrade and her family enjoy the beautiful beach days and lifestyle that the South Bay has to offer. They also love to go camping, snowboarding, hiking, and traveling. Dr. Andrade especially enjoys her trips to Fiji where she provides volunteer medical care in a small remote village. |
Elsa Otero-Salazar, MD, FAAP
Dr. Otero was born and raised in South America, where she attended an American school in Bogota, Colombia. She is completely fluent in both English and Spanish, and is learning ASL, Italian, and Portuguese. She attended medical school at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota. She did a year of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology at Harbor UCLA, then completed her pediatric residency at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she was Chief Resident. She has experience in both outpatient as well as inpatient pediatrics. For many years she worked as a hospitalist seeing both pediatric ward and newborn nursery patients at White Memorial Medical Center. She transitioned to only newborn nursery until 2020, and has also been doing outpatient pediatrics since 2006.
Dr. Elsa Otero-Salazar is a Board Certified pediatrician with 20 years of experience who is comfortable seeing pediatric patients of all ages. She believes families and their doctors should work as a unit to ensure each child’s physical, developmental, and emotional well-being. As the mother of 2 boys, she understands all the challenges families go through with the ins and outs of daily life, from the newborn period, the toddler years, the preschool and elementary school years, the tween and now teenage years, and how hard it can be to manage issues inherent with each stage, which can be magnified when there are other additional physical or emotional diagnoses involved. She is a great advocate of early intervention, having lived through the challenges of developmental/speech delays, therapies, and IEP’s with her own child, but knows there is always a light at the end of the tunnel and that children can thrive with early diagnosis and appropriate interventions, as her son has.
In her free time, Dr. Otero enjoys trying her hand at all kinds of arts and crafts, from crochet, to Dotz painting, to creating all kinds of projects with her Cricut, and likes trying new crafts. She also likes photography, especially the amazing Southern California sunsets, gardening, (she has a pandemic herb garden, veggies, and multiple fruit trees at home), dancing, reading, as well as traveling and watching movies and series with her husband and 2 boys.
Dr. Otero was born and raised in South America, where she attended an American school in Bogota, Colombia. She is completely fluent in both English and Spanish, and is learning ASL, Italian, and Portuguese. She attended medical school at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota. She did a year of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology at Harbor UCLA, then completed her pediatric residency at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she was Chief Resident. She has experience in both outpatient as well as inpatient pediatrics. For many years she worked as a hospitalist seeing both pediatric ward and newborn nursery patients at White Memorial Medical Center. She transitioned to only newborn nursery until 2020, and has also been doing outpatient pediatrics since 2006.
Dr. Elsa Otero-Salazar is a Board Certified pediatrician with 20 years of experience who is comfortable seeing pediatric patients of all ages. She believes families and their doctors should work as a unit to ensure each child’s physical, developmental, and emotional well-being. As the mother of 2 boys, she understands all the challenges families go through with the ins and outs of daily life, from the newborn period, the toddler years, the preschool and elementary school years, the tween and now teenage years, and how hard it can be to manage issues inherent with each stage, which can be magnified when there are other additional physical or emotional diagnoses involved. She is a great advocate of early intervention, having lived through the challenges of developmental/speech delays, therapies, and IEP’s with her own child, but knows there is always a light at the end of the tunnel and that children can thrive with early diagnosis and appropriate interventions, as her son has.
In her free time, Dr. Otero enjoys trying her hand at all kinds of arts and crafts, from crochet, to Dotz painting, to creating all kinds of projects with her Cricut, and likes trying new crafts. She also likes photography, especially the amazing Southern California sunsets, gardening, (she has a pandemic herb garden, veggies, and multiple fruit trees at home), dancing, reading, as well as traveling and watching movies and series with her husband and 2 boys.