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Dr. Robert Lehman

Robert Lehman, MD, has devoted his professional career to adolescent health care. As a physician, his practice has focused on teenagers in many different clinical situations, including schools, homeless clinics and public health facilities. He is also a passionate advocate for youth on the local and national level and has been on the University of Washington faculty since 1989.


In 1990, he began working with Julie Metzger on the "Growing Up" series and have decades of experience with the adolescent and pre-adolescent mindset. They created and now teach the popular "Growing Up" program at Seattle Children's Hospital and the "Heart to Heart" program out of Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.