James Cafarella, MD

My kids love going to see the doctor. Great bedside manner and an extremely high standard of care.

We love Dr. Cafarella and his nurse, Melissa. Both have been wonderful with my two children. They are patient, answer my questions, and I can tell they care about the well being of my children. I would definitely recommend!

I gave this over a year because I don’t like to give bad reviews. However, since I moved to this area I have really struggled with finding a good pediatrician and frankly, they need to know they are terrible and need to put in more effort. So, I have 3 children. The benefit of this office is that sure the nurse is great and I always got in when my kids were sick. For healthy older kids, I don’t think the doctor has as much impact because you basically want to be able to be seen when they are sick. Here’s my problem, I had a baby who had eating problems, with every appointment he was dropping in percentile. I came to him at the 6 month appointment, I was very worried about breast feeding as my baby wasn’t feeding long enough. Dr. Cafarella replied «he’s fine, he is getting the colostrum in the beginning so don’t worry about it.» I was shocked and said, he is 6 months old. This was my first red flag that perhaps he knew very little about breast feeding. I gave him time to correct himself, but he just looked like he was caught on a subject he knew very little about. I let it pass because I was a new patient. Weight problems continued to persist, I continued to ask for suggestions with breast feeding … should I pump more, should I pump and switch to a bottle, should I start formula??? He really didn’t know anything about it, just agreed with any proposal I could come up with. As the 6 months went by he entertained my concern about my sons weight but looked annoyed/​intimidated every time I saw him. I was unhappy, I needed him to be an advocate for my son. At his one year check was the last straw, my son was 19lbs (huge drop in % from his 80^th% start in life) and he told me «he is close enough to 20 lbs so go ahead and turn around his car seat.» My jaw dropped, I told him that the new recommendation is to not turn around the car seat until 2 years of age. His exact words «that is ridiculous, who would ever recommend that. No child will ever stay turned around till two. Where did you hear that? I have never heard that.». RUN. This doctor is not an advocate for your infant/​toddlers health. He is not up to date on new recommendations which means he doesn’t care enough about his patients to even try. This is so basic, no? Just to entertain his knowledge, I asked him about the new recommendation to brush a one year old’s teeth now using fluoride toothpaste … nope again. I should not know more about this than my doctor. If you have an infant or toddler, be cautious …

Amazing Pediatrician! Would highly recommend. I am a nurse and I know a good MD when I find one.

The most important thing to most, if not all, parents is their children. Dr. Cafarella and his nurse, Melissa are wonderful to our twin boys every time we come to see them. Last night we had to make a late-​night trip to urgent care for one of our boys and they gave us a prescription and took care of us but Melissa called this morning just to check up on my son and make sure that we didn’t need anything else. I work in the medical field so I understand how easy the small things can be to overlook and I really appreciate that she took time out of her day to call me to check on my sons.

Dr. Jim is amazing with kids — both of my kids love him! I am always able to get an appointment when we want, and his nurse is nice too! I never feel rushed thru an appointment and he answers all of my questions fully.