Dr Janet M Michaelson is a board-certified pediatrician and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and has been practicing on the Main Line since 1981. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she graduated from Cheltenham High School and received her bachelor’s degree with honors in biology from the University of Pennsylvania. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, she fell in love with pediatrics during her first rotation at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor society, and at graduation received the Loewenburg Prize for excellence in Pediatrics.

Dr Michaelson completed her pediatric residency at CHOP, where she developed a special interest in developmental and behavioral pediatrics. After her residency she was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Penn/CHOP, where she worked extensively in the field of child abuse and neglect, served as an attending in the Division of General Pediatrics, and completed an externship in family therapy at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center. Dr Michaelson is on staff at the Main Line Hospitals and maintains her staff affiliation at CHOP.

Dr Michaelson and her husband are the proud parents of four grown sons, two of whom are married with families of their own. She is an avid reader, choral singer and musician, and she enjoys traveling and cooking, but most of all she loves being a grandmother to her five, soon-to-be-six grandchildren.  A popular writer on medical topics in the local newspaper, Dr Michaelson has developed and taught the ninth-grade health class at Kosloff Torah Academy every year since 2000. She also heads the programming committee of the Board of the Bala Cynwyd Library.

Dr Michaelson loves her job, and looks forward to seeing her patients and their parents every day. She is especially excited to have many second-generation patients- children whose parents were her patients in her early years of practice!  Dr Michaelson says, “I feel very fortunate to have a career in pediatrics, where I play an important role in the growth and development of my patients. It is intellectually challenging, personally rewarding, and fun to follow children and families from infancy to adulthood.”