The physicians at Kids First are all pediatricians.
Pediatricians graduate from undergraduate school
(college), then attend medical school for at least four
years before graduating. They must then complete further
training in a Pediatric residency program for three
years.
All of our doctors are board-certified by the
American Board of Pediatrics, and are Fellows of the
American Academy of Pediatrics.
Kids First physicians have privileges at both
Memorial and Candler hospitals, so they can admit
patients to both hospitals . Our physicians care for
Kids First patients who must be hospitalized; one of our
doctors sees the patient daily and directs the medical
care. Kids First doctors are involved with the teaching
of pediatric residents at Memorial Hospital. Our doctors
also see newborns at both Candler and Memorial
hospitals.
Dr.
Karen M. Kim, M.D., FAAP
Dr. Karen M. Kim graduated summa cum laude with
Honors from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.
She earned her MD degree from Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. Dr. Kim completed
pediatric residency training at the University of
Florida in Jacksonville. She is married and is the
mother of seven children.
Dr.
Rolando Manalo, M.D., FAAP
Dr. Manalo received his M.D. degree from Saint Louis
University in 1984 and served as a Pediatric resident at
Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He also
received further training in the field of rehabilitation
medicine. Dr. Manalo moved from Baxley, GA to join our
group in 2003. He is married and has two children.
Dr.
Francisco J. Herran, M. D., FAAP
Dr. Herran graduated from medical school at the
University of Valle, Cali, Colombia. He completed his
Pediatric Residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's
Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He served as an
attending physician for six years at Illinois Masonic
Hospital in Chicago before moving to Florida in 2001,
where he worked in private practice in Pediatrics until
2007, when he moved to Georgia to join our group. Dr.
Herran is married and has one daughter.
Dr.
Yolanda M. Rivera-Caudill, M.D., FAAP
Dr. Rivera-Caudill is a graduate of the Medical
School at the Universidad Central del Caribe, Bayamon,
Puerto Rico. She completed her Pediatric Residency at
Miami Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida. Dr.
Rivera-Caudill also did a Fellowship in Ambulatory
Pediatrics at Miami Children's Hospital. She worked in
private practice in Pediatrics in Miami for sixteen
years before moving to the Savannah area in 2008. Dr.
Rivera-Caudill is married and has three children.
Dr.
Katarina Stopko, M.D.
Dr. Stopko graduated from the Medical School at the
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. She completed
her Pediatric Residency at the Memorial University
Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Stopko joined
our group in 2009. She is married and has one son.
