Patient Services
Professional, personalized attention begins right away and continues through every phase of your child’s care. We’ll help you from the time of your initial request in dealing with practical matters and be here to support your family with services, programs, and words of encouragement before, during, and after treatment. This family-centered approach is what we’re known for at Children’s Mercy, evidenced by our large Child Life staff whose only goal is to ensure your child’s comfort. For families traveling great distances to help their children, this unique brand of care makes all the difference. At Children’s Mercy Kansas City, we don’t know any other way. In our 120-year history, this special blend of compassion and pediatric expertise has transformed countless lives both here in the center of the US and around the world. The world-class medical services we offer include:
- Adolescent medicine
- Allergy/asthma/immunology
- Bone marrow transplant
- Cardiology/cardiovascular Surgery
- Clinical genetics
- Clinical pharmacology
- Critical care medicine
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Developmental and behavioral Sciences
- Endocrinology/diabetes
- Epilepsy & neurophysiology
- Gastroenterology
- General and thoracic surgery
- Gynecological surgery
- Genomic medicine
- Hand surgery
- Hematology
- Hepatology and transplant medicine
- Infectious disease
- Medical genetics
- Medical toxicology
- Neonatology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic surgery
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Pathology and laboratory medicine
- Plastic, craniofacial, and reconstructive surgery
- Psychology
- Pulmonology
- Rehabilitation
- Rheumatology
- Sleep medicine
- Spine surgery
- Sports medicine
- Surgical critical care, trauma, and burns
- Telemedicine
- Transplantation
- Urologic surgery
Service Lines
- Cardiac
- Dermatology
- Digestive Health
- Endocrinology
- General Surgery
- Neuroscience (Neurology & Neurosurgery)
- Nephrology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Otolaryngology
- Plastic Surgery
- Primary Care
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Rehabilitation
- Rheumatology
- Transplant
- Urology
- Women’s Health
Notable Physicians
George Whitfield Holcomb, III, MD
Surgeon-in-Chief
Michael Artman, MD
Chairman Department of Pediatrics
Richard Schwend, MD
Pediatric Orthopaedics, President-Elect, Pediatric Orthopaedics Society of North America
Bradley A. Warady, MD
Pediatric Nephrology, Division Director
Girish Shirali, MBBS, FACC, FASE
Pediatric Cardiology, Division Director and Co-Director of the Ward Family Heart Center
Shawn St. Peter, MD
Pediatric Surgery
John Patrick Murphy, MD
Pediatric Urology
James O'Brien, MD, FACS
Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Co-Director of the Ward Family Heart Center
Scott Olitsky, MD
Pediatric Opthalmology
Ahmed Abdelmoity, MD
Pediatric Neurology, Chief Section of Epilepsy and Neurophysiology
James “Jack” Daniel, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology (GI), Chief of Hepatology and Transplantation
Alan Gamis, MD, MPH
Pediatric Oncology, Associate Director
Cara Hoffart, DO
Pediatric Rheumatology, Medical Director of Rehabilitation for Amplified Pain Syndromes (RAPS)
Mary Anne Jackson, MD
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Division Director
Jay Portnoy, MD
Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Division Director
Tom Curran Phd, FRS
Executive Director, Research Institute
Steven Leeder PharmD, PhD
Director, Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutic Innovation
International Solutions
The mission, passion, and work of Children’s Mercy Kansas City is not limited to inside the walls of our hospitals and clinics. We welcome physician observers from all over the world. Our hospital partnerships in China, Mexico, and Panama involve the sharing of expertise in such issues as child life, quality improvement, medical education, nursing education, and healthcare improvement. Children’s Mercy is an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Healthcare professionals may receive educational credit through Children’s Mercy’s online Grand Rounds. We also operate the only pediatric clinical pharmacology training program in the U.S. that is accredited by the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology. Our free resources are designed to support your efforts to provide the very best patient care. Colleagues around the world may view published research, explore educational opportunities in bioethics and nursing, and access medical resources including: featured research, medical newsletters medical apps, clinical practice guidelines, and our health sciences library.
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