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State of the Art Pediatrics: EndoFLIP Expands Pediatric Motility Diagnosis and Treatment Insights
Children with gastrointestinal motility disorders frequently experience years of symptoms before receiving a diagnosis. This is especially true with motility disorders of the esophagus, which often cause...
Transition to Adulthood
Children’s Mercy will help you prepare for adulthood, including transferring your medical care to a doctor that cares for adults. Most people can learn to manage their own health. It takes guidance from...
Asthma Education
Children's Mercy provides the latest information, research, and resources to help patients and families manage asthma. You'll find important information about how to recognize symptoms, avoid common...
Clinical Experience - Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Clinical Experience –tailored to fellow needs and interest The fellowship’s clinical experience could include: 36 weeks of dedicated rounding and support service for ECMO, including time in CICU, PICU and...
Meet Mallory Moon
Mallory Moon, MPH, Team Lead and Technical Director, Center for Children's Healthy Lifestyles and Nutrition, talks about what drew her to her current research career, her career goals, and much more.
Evidence Based Strategies: Pediatric Chronic Pain Initial Assessment and Management: What Every Pediatric Clinician Should Know
Chronic pain affects approximately 1 in 5 children and adolescents, with a higher prevalence in girls. The most common types are headache, gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal pain. Chronic pain is often...
Emerging Principal Investigators: Dr. Ayanda Chakawa
Ayanda Chakawa, PhD, Developmental and Behavioral Health, is both a clinical psychologist who provides behavioral health care to youth and a researcher interested in improving access to that care.
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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
At Children's Mercy, our critical-care medicine specialists and experienced pediatric nursing staff care for patients 24 hours per day in our 41-bed pediatric intensive-care unit.
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Educational objectives: Learn to take history and carry out physical examination, including neurologic examination, on infants and children focusing on conditions amenable to neurosurgical care. Understand...
Endocrinology and Diabetes
The Endocrinology and Diabetes program at Children’s Mercy is one of the largest full-service programs in the country and is ranked as one of the nation’s top endocrinology programs by U.S. News and World...
Unique Experiences
Besides the core rotation curriculum, our program offers a variety of unique experiences. These additional opportunities give residents the ability to add to their knowledge of pediatrics in ways that are...
Vaccine Update: The History of Hepatitis B Vaccines and the Importance of Universal Vaccination in Infancy
The first hepatitis B vaccine, Heptavax, was plasma-derived and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1981. It was used in targeted populations of high-risk individuals, including...
Mental Health: Substance Use, Teens and You – You Don’t Know If You Don’t Ask
Substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs) are frequently underrecognized and associated with significant psychiatric, neurocognitive and social sequelae. According to a 2022 survey of 13-year-olds...
School Health Support
Parents, school leaders, and health care professionals can all attest that healthy students are much more likely to be successful learners. Children’s Mercy is dedicated to helping children achieve their...
Lifestyle Benefits
Lifestyle Spending Account (Wex) Each calendar year, team members receive up to $800 (full time) and $400 (part-time) to pay for expenses related to their wellbeing. You can use the account for child...
Parking
Free parking is available at all Children’s Mercy locations. Accessible parking spots are available for guests with disabilities at all locations for vehicles with appropriate licensing or windshield...
Nurse Residency Program
At Children’s Mercy, all Newly Licensed Nurses hired into our Graduate Nurse position are automatically enrolled into our Nurse Residency Program. We are excited to offer this program that is tailored...
Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship
Our Department Faculty and Fellows Meet the Team How to Apply The Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship at Children's Mercy is a one-year program approved and accredited by the American Association for...
Tate’s Story
Tate developed fetal heart block around 21 weeks, just like his big sister, Reese. Multidisciplinary specialists in our Elizabeth J. Ferrall Fetal Health Center, Ward Family Heart Center and Neonatology...