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Dr. Bakshi joined Summerwood Pediatrics in September, 2020. She is a Board certified pediatrician with 24 years of experience in general pediatrics. She is on staff at Upstate Medical Center and Crouse Hospital. She received her medicine degree from Khyber Medical College in Peshawar, Pakistan and completed Pediatric residency from NY Cornell-Methodist Hospital Program in Brooklyn NY, where she was also a chief resident. She worked with Bergen West Pediatrics in Wyckoff NJ for 15 years and then moved with her family to Upstate NY. She has worked in the North Country area for the last 9 years, and has regularly precepted PA students from Clarkson University, Le Moyne College and SUNY Upstate during this period. She wrote the 'Bakshi Blog' for the Cazenovia Republican Newspaper while practicing at Community Memorial Hospital Family Health Center.

 She also completed Peds and Adolescent Psychiatry mini fellowship through CAPPC program in 2017-2018. She has been member of American Academy Of Pediatrics since 1996.

She considers being a pediatrician as a privilege and working with families and parents as a source of satisfaction, vitality, dedication, and motivation to keep working and learning. She believes prevention is the bedrock of pediatric care and that setting a foundation of wellness and disease prevention is key. She has an interest in treating a wide spectrum of pediatric diseases. 

Besides work she has interest in reading, hiking and astronomy, and is a mom of four kids.

Grace is a Certified Physician Assistant. She received her Master's in Physician Assistant Studies at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and received her Bachelor of Science with Magna Cum Laude at Le Moyne College. Grace was a patient at Summerwood Pediatrics when she was a child. She also did her pediatric rotation as a student at Summerwood Pediatrics. Grace grew up in the Syracuse area and is honored to be serving her community. 

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