Amaka Priest, MD

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Get to know Pediatrician Dr. Amaka Priest, who serves patients in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Priest is a trusted pediatrician who joined Larchmont Pediatrics in Los Angeles, California in January of 2019. She enjoys seeing all ages but has a soft spot for teenagers and is happy to treat them at any stage in their adolescence. 

Larchmont Pediatrics offers a full range of pediatric care including prenatal visits for expecting parents, well-child check-ups, immunizations, and sick appointments. The caring team consists of Drs. Neville Anderson, Amaka Priest, and Courtney Mannino.They pride themselves on providing compassionate, comprehensive medical care to children from birth through adolescence. Considering it a great joy and responsibility to care for those in need, they strive to treat each and every patient as we would want their own children to be treated. 

A proud Sooner alumni, Dr. Priest graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 2012 and completed her pediatric residency at the OU Children’s Hospital at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 2015. After finishing residency, she joined a fast-growing pediatric clinic in Oklahoma City, where she was a primary care pediatrician by day and an urgent care pediatrician by night. 

In the fall of 2017, she moved from Oklahoma City to southern California after her husband was accepted to the graduate screenwriting program at UCLA. She spent her first year in California practicing in the primary care and adolescent medicine clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County before relocating to Los Angeles. 

As a testament to her success, she is board-certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). The mission of the ABP is to advance child health by certifying pediatricians who meet standards of excellence and are committed to continuous learning and improvement.

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends people be under pediatric care up to the age of 21. Pediatricians provide medical care to people ranging in age from newborns to young adults. They are trained to examine, diagnose, and treat children with a wide variety of injuries and illnesses through all of their developmental stages, as they grow and mature.

When she is not working, Dr. Priest enjoys listening to music, editing her husband’s scripts, cultivating deep conversations over a hot cup of coffee, and cheering on the OKC Thunder. 

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