About Us

Our Mission

Our mission is to work along side parents to heal, teach, and to advance the health of our children. Since 2004, families in the Riverview area have relied on our proactive approach to keeping their children healthy. It is our goal to serve as your family’s complete resource for raising healthy and happy children from birth into adulthood and beyond! We are committed to excellence in all that we do. Our staff is eager to make your visit as pleasant as possible as we continually aim to reduce wait time, increase patient satisfaction, and accommodate every patient’s individual needs.

At We Care Pediatrics, we firmly believe that every child is unique and special – that is why we apply our clinical skills from various vantage points that take into account your child’s specific needs and create a heath plan tailored to your child.

Dr. Peter Kosoff

Bio

Peter Kosoff, M.D., F.A.A.P., M.P.H. {Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine}, is board certified in Pediatrics and has been practicing pediatrics since 1996 after completing his pediatric residency at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

As a married father, with three beautiful children, he understands the needs of parents in being intimately involved in the health and well being of their children while facing today’s real and difficult life challenges of juggling the tasks of raising children and providing for a family.

Outside work, he loves to spend time with family, practice Spanish, travel, exercise and cook.

Research/Publication Experience:
1997 Sharif-Hasan, I., Dinkevich, E., Kosoff, P., Abella, M., Akbar, S., Togun, K., Jones, M.V., Burtton, W., Mullvihill, M. Impact of a literacy intervention on the reading readiness of inner city preschool children. Ambulatory Child Health 1997; 3(1): 155. Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of Ambulatory Pediatric Association, May 1997.

1989 Kosoff, P., F. Hernandez, V. Pardo, M. Visconti, M. Zimmerman. Urban helminthiasis in two socioeconomically distinct Costa Rican communities. Rev Biol Trop 1989; 37 (2): 181-186.

Media:

  • WTSP 10News: “Finding Flu Shots” February, 2016 (5:30pm)
  • Univision: “Pediatric Asthma Update” February 20, 1998 Channel 41 (9:30PM)
  • BronxNet: “Pediatric Asthma Update” February 19, 1998 Channel 67, (Cable TV)
  • Univision: “Pediatric Asthma Update” July 8, 1997 Channel 41 (6:30PM), July 9, 1997 Channel 41 (8:45AM)

Academic Appointments:
1998-9/01 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,Albert Einstein Collegeof Medicine, Bronx, NY
1997-1998 Assistant Attending on the Medical Staff of Cabrini Medical Center, NY, NY

Awards:Daniel C. Leicht, M.D. Award for Social Medicine for Outstanding Achievement, Residency Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center.

Our Team

We are fortunate to have a great staff here at We Care Pediatrics. Our staff strives to provide world-class customer service. We treat every patient like family.

Employee Spotlights

Val

Val has been a member at We Care Pediatrics since April 2012. She goes to great efforts to ensure patient’s needs are always met and spends countless hours accomplishing pre-authorizations and other patient care paperwork.

Beth

Medical Assistant (Clinical team lead) –

With a wealth of experience working with a variety of patients in large and small practices and has unbridled passion for her patients and teammates.

Julie

Julie, the back office administrative assistant, has been diligently working to assist with a host of third-party administrative tasks that directly impact the office since November 2021.

Dr. Lopez

Office consultant and fantastic team member.

Crystal

Medical Assistant who is amazingly dedicated to her work and is a great team player.

Alfred

Our amazing scribe.

Lyndsey

Front desk team lead – Lyndsey’s welcoming smile and abounding passion to help our patients is evident by her friendliness and concern for patients and their family’s wellbeing.  Since March 2020, she has been doing her front desk job with integrity and care.

Cecilia

Former patient, now front desk secretary extraordinaire.

Natalie

Front desk secretary with unwavering passion for the patients and detail.