Adam Halpern, DO, FAAP

Physician

Office

About

Adam Halpern, DO, FAAP, is a board-certified pediatrician who joined Watchung Pediatrics in July 2026. He grew up in Rockaway, NJ, and received his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and Music from Muhlenberg College as part of the RJ Fellows Honors Program. He earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harlem, NY, where he served as Student Government President and was recognized with multiple honors, including Student DO of the Year, the Excellence in Community Outreach Award, and induction into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Dr. Halpern completed his pediatric residency and chief residency at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ, where he received the David H. Carver, M.D. "Excellence in Teaching" Award and continues to serve as a Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Halpern was awarded the Reach Out & Read Residency Fellowship Leadership Award, received a national American Academy of Pediatrics CATCH grant to support child development, and currently serves as a Reach Out & Read National Early Career Champion. He is passionate about early relational health, preventative medicine, and child literacy.

What motivates you?

The relationships you build with patients and their families are unparalleled in pediatrics. It's the highest privilege to be trusted with the care of another person's greatest treasure, especially when that trust lasts from birth to young adulthood. Pediatrics is also the only field of medicine where you can be unapologetically silly — wear a goofy costume, lean on your inner child, and make a patient smile on their worst day. I chose pediatrics because it lets me be surrounded by laughter and smiles every day. I joined Watchung Pediatrics because it's a family that cares relentlessly for its patients. Kids feel at home here because the office is built around them, and the staff radiates kindness. The doctors practice evidence-based medicine grounded in the American Academy of Pediatrics — it's the kind of practice you want to brag to your friends and family about, and I'm honored to be part of it. Outside of work, I live in West Orange with my wife and our two kids. I play tennis, sing, hike, juggle, and never turn down a good jigsaw puzzle or a diner grilled cheese. I collect bow ties and decorative baseballs, I'm always up for a silly costume, and I watch more Gordon Ramsay than I'd care to admit.