Pediatric Associates Family of Companies

About Pediatric Associates Family of Companies

Improving access to exceptional care
for
every child, every family, every day.

Since 1955, we've believed everyone deserves a trusted healthcare partner. What began as one pediatric practice has grown into the nation's largest family primary care organization—not because our goal was to become bigger, but because more families needed access to high-quality care.

Today, we're building the future of healthcare by combining compassionate providers, innovative technology, and community-based care to help children thrive from infancy through adulthood.

For more than 70 years, we've stayed focused
on one simple belief:
healthcare works
best when families have a trusted relationship
with their child's care team.

1955

  1. One pediatric practice

  2. Growing communities

  3. Expanded access

  4. Technology & innovation

Today

As communities have grown and healthcare has evolved, we've evolved with them, through expanding access, embracing innovation, and investing in new ways to make care more connected, more convenient, and more personal.

Today, PAFC serves millions of families through hundreds of neighborhood clinics across seven states, while continuing to deliver the same relationship-centered care that inspired our founders.

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Our Mission

To be the trusted place families turn for their care and well-being.

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Our Vision

Exceptional care for every family, every time, always within reach.

70+ years

of value-based care for families

2,200+

healthcare professionals supporting families

1.7m

patients visit annually nationwide

300+ locations

providing convenient local care with national support

Our values

Start With the Family

Every decision begins with the child and the family we care for. We listen, we anticipate what they need, and we make each interaction great.

Exceptional Care, Every Time

Every child. Every family. Every visit. We commit to delivering the highest quality care with a relentless focus on always striving for better.

Reaching More Families, Together

We work as one team, so more children and families get the care they need, when and where they need it.

Leading the future of pediatric care

Our leadership team brings together expertise in healthcare, clinical excellence, technology, operations, and innovation—all working toward one goal: making exceptional pediatric care more accessible for every family.

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Chief Executive Officer

Scott Powers

Scott has built his career on companies and teams that put patients and the clinicians who care for them at the center, and he has built them to grow. High growth and high access go together in his view, because reaching more families is the whole point. He is known for taking pediatrics somewhere new, pressing the envelope in service of better care and a genuinely differentiated experience for every child we see.

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Chief Operating Officer

Hakan Kardes, PhD

Hakan is our operator. He makes sure we execute, innovate, and scale to excellence, with patients and clinicians at the center of every decision and integrity in everything we do. He brings a track record of using technology, AI, and data to move healthcare forward, and he applies it here to make excellent care more consistent and more available to more families.

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Chief Clinical Officer

Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP

Charlene is our lead clinician and a national champion for children, for the clinicians who care for them, and for value based care. She keeps us a clinician focused organization even as we have become the largest pediatrics business in the country. Her commitment runs to children from every walk of life, and she drives access for all of them, regardless of where they live or who covers their care.

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Chief Growth Officer

Mike Manocchio

Mike wakes up every day focused on one question: how do we reach more children? He leads our growth across payer partnerships, business development, and new clinic openings. Few people know pediatrics the way Mike does. He has relationships with pediatric practices across the country, and he brings that network here so more practices, and more families, can find a home with us. To Mike, growth is never just a number. It is one more community where a parent can get their child seen by a pediatrician who knows them.

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Chief People Officer

Janelle Metzger

Janelle leads our people, and in a company like ours that is the whole game. Our people are the lifeblood of this organization. In pediatrics, our people are the product: the pediatrician who takes the time to listen, the front desk team that finds an appointment today, the nurse who remembers a child’s name. She is here to make this the place those people want to spend their careers.

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General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer

April Andrews-Singh​​, RN, ALM, JD

April makes sure we do things right, always. She holds the standard on ethics, compliance, privacy, and the trust families place in us when they hand over their child’s care. That standard is what allows a company growing this fast to keep earning that trust, every day, in every clinic.

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Chief Marketing Officer

Amanda Root

Amanda leads brand, communications, and patient engagement for a growth-oriented company that measures growth by the number of families it serves well. She is focused on making every interaction, from the first phone call to the last well visit, one a parent would want to tell a friend about.

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Ready to build the future of healthcare?

Whether you're looking for your next career or your next practice partner, we'd love to start the conversation.