Andrea D Siano, M.D.

Dr. Siano was assigned to my newborn after birth at Zion Kaiser Hospital. I really liked her nurse practitioner (Johnson) but was not a fan of Dr. Siano. She is sweet and overall ok, but a few things made me a littler nervous about continuing to use her as my child’s provider.
For one, she does not have children of her own, and lacked what I believe to be general knowledge to even a newbie parent. For example, she really pushed the Vit D vitamins that contain tons of additives, and had no knowledge of several well known products that offer Vit D without the additives (NP Johnson, on the other hand, was very familiar with these). In addition, in casual conversation, she mispronounced «Bjorn», one of the most well known baby carriers — this alone made me very nervous. How could a doctor who has been practicing for SO long seriously not know how to pronounce one of the most well known products of parents?! She also came off overly confident, something that I would usually say is a good thing, yet her obvious lack of certain areas regarding children made my husband and I very uncomfortable.
When we made the decision to find another provider for our child, Dr. Siano went on and on about her background, about how great of a doc she was, and how Kaiser was an excellent provider. We did not disagree with her regarding Kaiser, but found it odd that she felt the need to self advocate so much!
Then, in reading a random news article, I found this:
All parents should read the above article and decide for yourself whether you would be comfortable with this doctor seeing your child. Kind scary she is still practicing after such and obvious professional misjudgment, AND with proven lack of professionalism in a court of law.
I hope this review helps another parent. We have since found an excellent doctor that we love!