Mario Gaspar de Alba, M.D., FAAP
Assistant Professor in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Mario J Gaspar de Alba is Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor and Division Chief of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University Of Nevada School Of Medicine. He is devoted to educating residents and medical students about appropriate early child development, recognition of deviance from expected, and the vital importance of early intervention and its impact on future quality of life issues. His main interests within the field of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics include autism, learning disabilities, and ADHD. Dr. Gaspar de Alba completed his pediatrics residency at the University of New Mexico Children's Hospital in Albuquerque, NM during which time he became interested in the field of child development. He went on to complete his subspecialty in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Center for Development and Learning/Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As part of his subspecialty training he had the opportunity to participate in and complete the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) training program and believes strongly that children with special health care needs are best served through interdisciplinary collaboration and a family focused approach. In the past he has been a speaker at several professional development and community meetings as well as parent organizations in an effort to improve interdisciplinary collaboration and strengthen family support. He continues to strive to create a culture of collaboration in his teaching responsibilities at the school of medicine and in the community.
Dr. Gaspar de Alba will be participating in monthly pediatric clinics at our facility! Dr. Gaspar de Alba will be seeing our children for autism assessment, FAS diagnoses, developmental delay, medically fragile, helping facilitate outside referrals to specialty out of state clinics, as well as collaborating with genetic clinics.