Samantha Ahdoot, M.D.

Dr. Ahdoot was raised in Manhattan, New York City. She attended the Dalton School for high school, as well as the Juilliard Pre-College Division for trumpet. She was a childhood actress, appearing in television and off-broadway productions. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in English from Wesleyan University, CT, in 1991, followed by a pre-medical program at Columbia University. She earned her Medical Degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1999, where she met her husband, Kenneth Ahdoot. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Tufts University in Boston in 2002, and in 2003 moved to her husband's native home of Alexandria, where she joined Pediatric Associates of Alexandria.

Dr. Ahdoot is Board Certified with the American Board of Pediatrics. She is currently a member of the pediatric staff at Inova Alexandria and Fairfax Hospitals, as well as the Secretary of the Pediatric Department at Alexandria Hospital. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and has been recognized in the 2008 and 2010 Washingtonian Magazine's Best Doctors editions.

Dr. Ahdoot is an active member of the Alexandria Community, and has served on the City's Early Childhood and Environmental Policy Commissions. Her husband Ken is an Obstetrician with his father at Physicians and Midwives Collaborative Practice in Alexandria. Together they have two children, Isaac and Ruby. She enjoys spending time with her family, gardening, cooking and beekeeping.