BobPP-200x300 Dr. Robert Chirlin was born on a fine spring morning in a suburb of Buffalo, NY at the end of the baby boomer generation.  He spent his formative years growing up to the sounds of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Peter Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan, and the Monkees.  He saw the first televised war, Haight-Ashbury, the summer of love and the civil rights movement were brought into  our homes to the paternal persona of Walter Cronkite.

Leaving high school after his junior year to attend an Advanced Placement Program he graduated from the University of Michigan with a BGS degree and followed that with a year of reflection while obtaining his EMT certification.  Dr. Bob attended SUNY at Buffalo Medical School where, after graduating in 1982, he spent his pediatric residency years in Cleveland, OH at Case Western Reserve Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.

After a year in Private practice just outside of Minneapolis, MN he joined Dr. Larry Lutner in Newburyport, MA in 1986 and helped bring Pedi-Practitioners from a  two man practice in a small office at the Anna Jacques Hospital to its current status as one of the finest and most complete medical home-oriented practices on the North Shore.

A life-long Buffalo Bills and Sabres fan (forgive him; neither has ever won a championship) he has converted from his childhood Yankee fanaticism to a Boston Red Sox fan with a true understanding of the pathos that went with chronic losing.

In 1980 he married his beautiful bride, Patricia, and together they have helped insure the future through their prodigy, Alyssa, their daughter, and Jacob, their son.  His interestes inclulde travel and photography and an on/off passion for the game of golf.

Dr. Chirlin is a board-certified fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a member of the AMA and Massachusetts Medical Society, vice-president of the Whittier Independent Physicians Association, and sits on the board of the Lower Merrimack valley Physicians Hospital Association.  He has been president of Children’s Health Care since 2002.