Cengiz Yucel, M.D.
A pediatrician in Hackensack who came to this work through his own family, and who treats other people's children the way he would treat his own.
- PracticeNatural Pediatrics, 155 Polifly Road, Suite 204, Hackensack, NJ
- FocusGeneral pediatric medicine, children and adolescent medicine
- Ages seenNewborn through 20 years
- ExperienceMore than 30 years in medicine
- HospitalsHackensack University Medical Center; Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center
- LanguagesEnglish and Turkish
Education and training
Dr. Yucel earned his medical degree at Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine in Izmir, Turkey, in 1991. He completed his pediatric training in New Jersey, as a graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School (UMDNJ), Department of Pediatric Medicine and Residency Program.
He has more than 30 years of experience in medicine, across primary care for all ages, general medicine, and primary care within both family medicine and pediatric medicine.
He sees families in English and in Turkish.
Hospital affiliations
Dr. Yucel is an attending physician in pediatrics at Hackensack University Medical Center, now part of Hackensack Meridian Health, and is also affiliated with Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center.
He visits newborn patients at the hospital every day from birth until they are discharged, and follows children who are admitted for illness.
Why pediatrics
In 2000, someone Dr. Yucel loves faced a life-threatening illness. It changed how he understood medicine. Out of that came a genuine interest in pediatric medicine and in complementary, integrative, whole and natural medicine.
He decided to spend the rest of his career serving and guiding young patients and their parents, promoting healthier living and better medicine, with compassionate and heartfelt care for children and young people.
To care for my patients, your infants, your children and adolescents like our sons and daughters. Dr. Yucel's mission
His philosophy
Dr. Yucel wants to give parents information and real choices: about natural care and healing for children, about preventive medicine, about some of the causes of poor health in children, and about building a healthy immune system. All of it sits alongside every part of classic pediatric medicine, not instead of it.
He is a father of three. That comes up often in how he talks about his patients.
"Children are our future. Let's give them an exceptional care which they deserve."
Inside the office
What the office is like
Suite 204 is on the second floor at 155 Polifly Road, with parking in front of the building. It is a small practice: a waiting room with couches and a toy corner by the window, and exam rooms off a single hallway. Parents mention the short waits more than almost anything else.
Photographs from the practice's own archive. New photography is being arranged.
What he offers
The care Dr. Yucel provides
- Preventive and comprehensive pediatric primary care from birth through age 20
- Well visits at every age in that range
- Vaccinations and immunizations, plus periodic check-ups
- Sports and school physicals
- Friendly immunization schedules worked out together with parents
- Avoiding antibiotics and medications unless they are truly necessary
- WIC forms
- Daily hospital visits to newborn babies from birth until discharge
- Acute illness office visits, hospital admission for sick children and inpatient follow-up
- Nutrition guidance that supports the body's own healing and wellness
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Appointments
Call the office and we will find you a time.
Appointments are booked by phone. If you are calling after hours, the line goes to Dr. Yucel's cell phone and you reach your child's doctor directly.
Also reachable at (201) 525-0215 (201) 525-0216. Fax (201) 525-0217
Office hours
- Monday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Tuesday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Wednesday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Thursday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Friday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Saturday10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- SundayClosed
Hours can change during holidays and vacations. Please call to confirm.