Dr. Alan Dakak, M.D., FAAP

Dr. Alan F. Dakak is the founding pediatrician at Kern Pediatrics. He has been working as a pediatrician since 2008. Dr. Dakak was born in Lansing, Michigan and his family is from the Middle East. He graduated medical school at the Drew/Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and his residency training in Pediatrics at the Phoenix Children's Hospital in Arizona.

After residency, Dr. Dakak joined Kern Medical Center in 2008 as an Associate in Pediatrics and worked at the Sagebrush Pediatric Clinic. There he was a Volunteer Clinical Faculty Member at the University Of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He has also worked at the Pedi Center Urgent Care since 2009. He last worked at Southwest Pediatrics for 1 year and resigned on June, 2012 to start his own practice and pursue his dream of serving the underserved population of Bakersfield.

Dr. Dakak is a member of the 2010 Leading Physicians of the World by the International Association of Pediatricians. He was also selected as one of the America's Top Physicians by the Consumer's Research Council of America in 2010. Dr. Dakak also has a research publication in the Journal of the National Medical Association in 2006 about medical student's choice of specialty training.

Dr. Dakak is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics since October, 2008. He is licensed to practice medicine in California. He is also fluent in Spanish.

Dr. Dakak is married to his wife, Asil Dakak, who is a family nurse practitioner at the Priority Care Department at Bakersfield Family Medical Center. In his free time he enjoys reading about philosophy/spirituality, playing sports, and donating his time to community service for the underserved. He looks forward to serving the Kern County Community in the future. They also had their first beautiful baby boy born on June 20, 2012.