For Patients:
To request an appointment, call 800.678.KIDS (5437) or fill out our online form.
For Referring Physicians:
To refer a patient, call Children's Direct at 800.678.HELP (4357).
Allan Doctor, MD
*Pediatrics - certified
For Patients:
To request an appointment, call 800.678.KIDS (5437) or fill out our online form.
For Referring Physicians:
To refer a patient, call Children's Direct at 800.678.HELP (4357).

Suite 5S20
Saint Louis, MO 63110
314.454.2527
Education
Residency: University of Pittsburgh
Fellowship: Children's Hospital Boston
Health Plans Accepted
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Aetna HMO/Open Access |
Aetna Managed Choice POS |
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Aetna Medicare HMO |
Aetna Medicare Open Access (HMO/POS |
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Aetna Medicare PPO |
Aetna POS/PPO/Choice |
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Aetna PPO |
Anthem BCBS Blue Access Choice PPO |
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Anthem BCBS Blue Access PPO |
Anthem BCBS Blue Preferred HMO/POS |
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BCBS of IL HMO |
BCBS of IL PPO |
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Beech Street/Capp Care PPO |
Best Doctors Inc |
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Cigna Open Access HMO/POS |
Cigna PPO |
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Community Care Network PPO |
Coventry Advantra HMO - Medicare |
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Coventry ASO |
Coventry Gold Advantage- Medicare |
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Coventry HMO/POS |
Coventry PPO |
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Essence Standard/Enhanced |
First Health |
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Great-West HMO/POS |
Great-West Open Access |
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Great-West PPO |
Health Alliance HMO & PPO |
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HealthCare USA MC+ |
Healthlink Open Access/HMO/POS |
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Healthlink PPO |
HFN Inc. PPO |
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Home State-MC+ |
Humana Gold Choice PFFS - Medicare |
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Humana Gold Plus HMO - Medicare |
Humana POS-Medicare |
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Humana PPO/ChoiceCare Network |
HumanaChoice PPO-Medicare |
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Medicaid MO/ Missouri HealthNet |
Medicare |
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Mercy Health Plan HMO/POS |
Mercy Health Plan PPO |
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MO Medicaid Secondary to Medicare |
MultiPlan PPO |
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Primrose Tertiary/Quarternary |
Private Health Care Systems PPO |
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Tricare/Triwest Prime HMO/POS |
Tricare/Triwest Standard/ Extra PPO |
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Union Pacific RR Emp. Health System |
United HC MCARE Complete Choice PPO |
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United HC MCARE Complete HMO |
United HC MCARE CompleteEssen. HMO |
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United HC MCARE Dual Complete |
United Healthcare Choice/Choice+ |
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United Healthcare PPO/ Options |
United Healthcare Select/Select+POS |
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USA Managed Care Org |
Verify insurance with office |
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Worker's Compensation |
Nitric oxide during altitude acclimatization.Janocha AJ, Koch CD, Tiso M, Ponchia A, Doctor A, Gibbons L, Gaston B, Beall CM, Erzurum SC.N Engl J Med. 2011 Nov 17;365(20):1942-4. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 22087700
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free ArticleRelated citationsCritically Ill Children During the 2009-2010 Influenza Pandemic in the United States.Randolph AG, Vaughn F, Sullivan R, Rubinson L, Thompson BT, Yoon G, Smoot E, Rice TW, Loftis LL, Helfaer M, Doctor A, Paden M, Flori H, Babbitt C, Graciano AL, Gedeit R, Sanders RC, Giuliano JS, Zimmerman J, Uyeki TM; for the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigator's Network and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ARDS Clinical Trials Network.Pediatrics. 2011 Dec;128(6):e1450-e1458. Epub 2011 Nov 7.
- PMID:
- 22065262
- [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Related citationsEvolution of surfactant protein-D levels in children with ventilator-associated pneumonia.Said AS, Abd-Elaziz MM, Farid MM, Abd-Elfattah MA, Abdel-Monim MT, Doctor A.Pediatr Pulmonol. 2011 Sep 7. doi: 10.1002/ppul.21548. [Epub ahead of print]
- PMID:
- 21901856
- [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Related citationsDoes the storage duration of blood products affect outcomes in critically ill patients?Spinella PC, Doctor A, Blumberg N, Holcomb JB.Transfusion. 2011 Aug;51(8):1644-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03245.x. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 21831180
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsDirect regulation of striated muscle myosins by nitric oxide and endogenous nitrosothiols.Evangelista AM, Rao VS, Filo AR, Marozkina NV, Doctor A, Jones DR, Gaston B, Guilford WH.PLoS One. 2010 Jun 18;5(6):e11209.
- PMID:
- 20585450
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsFresh goat's milk for infants: myths and realities--a review.Basnet S, Schneider M, Gazit A, Mander G, Doctor A.Pediatrics. 2010 Apr;125(4):e973-7. Epub 2010 Mar 15. Review.
- PMID:
- 20231186
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free ArticleRelated citationsHypoxia limits antioxidant capacity in red blood cells by altering glycolytic pathway dominance.Rogers SC, Said A, Corcuera D, McLaughlin D, Kell P, Doctor A.FASEB J. 2009 Sep;23(9):3159-70. Epub 2009 May 5.
- PMID:
- 19417084
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsClinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal septic shock: 2007 update from the American College of Critical Care Medicine.Brierley J, Carcillo JA, Choong K, Cornell T, Decaen A, Deymann A, Doctor A, Davis A, Duff J, Dugas MA, Duncan A, Evans B, Feldman J, Felmet K, Fisher G, Frankel L, Jeffries H, Greenwald B, Gutierrez J, Hall M, Han YY, Hanson J, Hazelzet J, Hernan L, Kiff J, Kissoon N, Kon A, Irazuzta J, Lin J, Lorts A, Mariscalco M, Mehta R, Nadel S, Nguyen T, Nicholson C, Peters M, Okhuysen-Cawley R, Poulton T, Relves M, Rodriguez A, Rozenfeld R, Schnitzler E, Shanley T, Kache S, Skippen P, Torres A, von Dessauer B, Weingarten J, Yeh T, Zaritsky A, Stojadinovic B, Zimmerman J, Zuckerberg A.Crit Care Med. 2009 Feb;37(2):666-88. Erratum in: Crit Care Med. 2009 Apr;37(4):1536. Skache, Sara [corrected to Kache, Saraswati]; Irazusta, Jose [corrected to Irazuzta, Jose].
- PMID:
- 19325359
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsSNO-hemoglobin and hypoxic vasodilation.Palmer LA, Doctor A, Gaston B.Nat Med. 2008 Oct;14(10):1009; author reply 1009-10. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 18841128
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsTransnitrosation signals oxyhemoglobin desaturation.Marozkina N, Gaston B, Doctor A.Circ Res. 2008 Aug 29;103(5):441-3. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 18757830
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsEvolution of adverse changes in stored RBCs.Bennett-Guerrero E, Veldman TH, Doctor A, Telen MJ, Ortel TL, Reid TS, Mulherin MA, Zhu H, Buck RD, Califf RM, McMahon TJ.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Oct 23;104(43):17063-8. Epub 2007 Oct 11.
- PMID:
- 17940021
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsGenome-level longitudinal expression of signaling pathways and gene networks in pediatric septic shock.Shanley TP, Cvijanovich N, Lin R, Allen GL, Thomas NJ, Doctor A, Kalyanaraman M, Tofil NM, Penfil S, Monaco M, Odoms K, Barnes M, Sakthivel B, Aronow BJ, Wong HR.Mol Med. 2007 Sep-Oct;13(9-10):495-508.
- PMID:
- 17932561
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsS-nitrosothiols signal hypoxia-mimetic vascular pathology.Palmer LA, Doctor A, Chhabra P, Sheram ML, Laubach VE, Karlinsey MZ, Forbes MS, Macdonald T, Gaston B.J Clin Invest. 2007 Sep;117(9):2592-601.
- PMID:
- 17786245
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsS-Nitrosothiol measurements in biological systems.Gow A, Doctor A, Mannick J, Gaston B.J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2007 May 15;851(1-2):140-51. Epub 2007 Feb 25. Review.
- PMID:
- 17379583
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsGenome-level expression profiles in pediatric septic shock indicate a role for altered zinc homeostasis in poor outcome.Wong HR, Shanley TP, Sakthivel B, Cvijanovich N, Lin R, Allen GL, Thomas NJ, Doctor A, Kalyanaraman M, Tofil NM, Penfil S, Monaco M, Tagavilla MA, Odoms K, Dunsmore K, Barnes M, Aronow BJ; Genomics of Pediatric SIRS/Septic Shock Investigators.Physiol Genomics. 2007 Jul 18;30(2):146-55. Epub 2007 Mar 20.
- PMID:
- 17374846
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free PMC ArticleRelated citationsFunctional regulation of T-type calcium channels by s-nitrosothiols in the rat thalamus.Joksovic PM, Doctor A, Gaston B, Todorovic SM.J Neurophysiol. 2007 Apr;97(4):2712-21. Epub 2007 Feb 7.
- PMID:
- 17287440
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free ArticleRelated citationsDetecting physiologic fluctuations in the S-nitrosohemoglobin micropopulation: Triiodide versus 3C.Doctor A, Gaston B, Kim-Shapiro DB.Blood. 2006 Nov 1;108(9):3225-6; author reply 3226-7. No abstract available.
- PMID:
- 17057023
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Free ArticleRelated citationsBuffering airway acid decreases exhaled nitric oxide in asthma.Gaston B, Kelly R, Urban P, Liu L, Henderson EM, Doctor A, Teague WG, Fitzpatrick A, Erzurum S, Hunt JF.J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2006 Oct;118(4):817-22. Epub 2006 Sep 1.
- PMID:
- 17030232
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related citationsAlveolar macrophage activation is a key initiation signal for acute lung ischemia-reperfusion injury.Zhao M, Fernandez LG, Doctor A, Sharma AK, Zarbock A, Tribble CG, Kron IL, Laubach VE.Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2006 Nov;291(5):L1018-26. Epub 2006 Jul 21.
- PMID:
- 16861385
- [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]












