Meet Our Team

Hi, I’m Dr. Erik! I’m a board-certified pediatrician who started my career working for several years in both a private primary care office in Simsbury, CT and a busy urban pediatric emergency department in Hartford, CT. It was during this time that I realized I was not satisfied with the current model of pediatric care. I didn’t like making my patients wait for me and I often felt that I hadn’t spent enough time with them. It would break my heart to hear that a patient had trouble contacting me because the lines were busy or the answering service hadn’t given me the message. That is why I moved to Greenwich and started Next Generation Pediatrics in 2006 as one of the very first Concierge Pediatric Practices in the country.

I’m not like some physicians who knew they wanted to become doctors from the time they learned to walk. I went to college at the University of Pennsylvania where I acquired a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering and then stayed there for several years more to do PCR based research on human hearing. I quickly realized that laboratory dishes were a poor substitute for human interaction and was lucky enough to have met several doctors who agreed to take me into the hospital to see what their jobs entailed. It sparked my interest.

I went to Georgetown University where I received a Master’s Degree in Physiology and Biophysics and then to Temple University School of Medicine from where I received my MD. Having always known that whatever I did, it would be related to children, the choice to become a pediatrician was simple and obvious. I completed my internship and residency in pediatrics at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center through the University of Connecticut.

I now live as an empty nester in Armonk and have two kids in their twenties. My son Max is in the music production business and my daughter Gaby has found an interest in sports business. I’m still waiting for all my concert and sports tickets!! Although I learned medicine during my training, it was my family who taught me what it was to be a parent.

My path to developing Next Generation Pediatrics was not straight, but the goal was clear: This is the type of medicine I want to practice. This is the type of medicine I think people deserve. I welcome you to look through the website and learn more about our unique brand of pediatric care and to meet my staff. Each was hand-picked by me and I feel honored to have them. Feel free at any time to give us a call and learn more about us. I look forward to meeting you.

Hello there! My name is Vidya and I am one of the pediatric doctors of Next Generation Pediatrics.

Although I grew up on the sun kissed shores of Oahu, Hawaii, I am not new to New England. After graduating from Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts, I moved to New Haven to complete my long standing interest in infectious disease (after four summers in a rabies lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta) and pursue a Master’s degree in Public Health from Yale University.

During this time, I was a visiting fellow in Kenya studying the effects of malaria on the newborn. While at Yale I also met my husband, Igor Latich. I spent the next four years studying medicine in the Windy City at Loyola, but moved back to Connecticut to join my husband who was completing his residency at Yale.

Like Erik, I graduated from Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, CT.  Given my past experiences, I have particular interests in breastfeeding and travel medicine.

I live in Greenwich with my husband, 4 kids, and way too many pets.Igor is on faculty at Yale University where he works as an interventional radiologist.

It is a rare privilege in the world of medicine to become a part of a practice where everybody knows your name — and the names of all of your household members, including the pets!

The most precious aspect of Next Generation Pediatrics is that we not only take care of your family, but we would like to think of ourselves as a part of your family, and we certainly see you as members of ours!

Hello, I’m Dr. Alex, and I am a board-certified pediatrician at Next Generation Pediatrics.

Born in New York City and raised in Westchester County, I had a lot of exposure to medicine growing up through the work of my father, a primary care physician, and my mother, who has a Master’s in Public Health. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, their influence along with experiences such as volunteering at immunization clinics in Spanish Harlem as a teenager and mentoring children with Sickle Cell Disease in Boston as a college student each contributed toward a combined interest in medicine, preventive healthcare, and, most significantly, caring for children.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Harvard University, I worked doing clinical research, performing rapid HIV testing and counseling in the ER at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. Afterwards, I stayed in the Bronx to attend Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where I received my Medical Degree with distinction in pediatrics, then completed my internship and residency at Cohen Children’s Medical Center at Northshore/Long Island Jewish (now Northwell). Though I had incredible sub-specialty exposure throughout my training, in the end the decision to practice general pediatrics was an easy one—I’m passionate about providing primary care to children and their families.

I currently live in Westchester with my wife and daughter. I also practiced in Westchester County for 7+ years before looking for the opportunity to care for children and families in a different, more intimate way, and found a shared vision in the way medicine should be delivered when I joined Next Generation Pediatrics. I’m excited to be part of the team and look forward to meeting your family soon.

Hello!

It was February 6th, 2008 in the early evening. I was in the middle of cooking pot roast for my children when my sister called to tell me a friend of hers knew a concierge care pediatrician in Greenwich who was looking for an administrator.

Would I be interested in the position?

My education prepared me for the retail world, but after having children, I knew I needed a change. After talking more in detail with my sister’s friend, I called Erik Cohen. He asked me if I could meet with him. I told him I wasn’t dressed professionally and I smelled of pot roast, but I lived 5 minutes away so I could be there shortly.

After meeting with him, seeing the cool office and learning about his philosophy of treating children, I knew I had to be part of his team. I was hired and 20 years later, I am still here, loving my job, the people I work with, and the families we care for.

I still marvel how the opportunity all came together. Next Generation Pediatrics is my home away from home. Erik still asks me when he is going to get a piece of the pot roast.

It is with great pleasure that I have joined the Next Generation Pediatrics family.

I am a pediatric neuropsychologist and my work experience includes employment in hospital, university, and private settings.

At Next Generation Pediatrics I provide diagnostic psychological, neuropsychological and psychoeducational evaluations to school age children and young adults.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have a concern about how your child is functioning academically, socially, or emotionally.

I also offer private and group workshops where I teach mindfulness techniques to children, teens, and adults. Mindfulness allows individuals to increase their awareness, which results in better self-modulation of attention, emotions, and behavior.

These tools specifically help to increase focus, flexible thinking, efficiency, resilience, compassion, and general well-being and can be particularly helpful to individuals who experience stress, impulsivity, inattention, and emotional dysregulation.

I look forward to meeting you and your family.