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Kansas City Healthy Lifestyles Collaborative (KC HLC)
Email The Kansas City Healthy Lifestyles Collaborative is a program at Children’s Mercy that seeks to align community programs to promote and encourage healthy lifestyles. It supports...
Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Clinic
Email Our brains need blood and oxygen from the heart in order to develop and function properly. Neurodevelopment refers to how our brains grow and form the connections that direct all of our behavior...
Liver Transplant Program
The Pediatric Liver Transplant Program provides a comprehensive approach to treating children with end-stage liver disease and/or failure. Families have a dedicated transplant coordinator who is with them...
Blood and Marrow Transplant Options
Transplant options for every child When we meet a child in need of a transplant, we search all available donor options. Doing so means we can quickly find the best solution for each child. As a...
Sports Medicine ERAS
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs promote an evidence based, multidisciplinary approach to patient care aimed at facilitating faster recovery from surgery, decreasing hospital length of stay...
Meet the Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research Team
Meet the Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research Team (QMRT).
Provider Resources for Antimicrobial Stewardship
The following resources may be helpful in staying up to date on current best practices in antimicrobial stewardship. Children’s Mercy Antibiotic Handbooks The Children’s Mercy...
Clinical Experience - Allergy and Immunology Fellowship
Email As part of their cross-training, fellows spend time in a variety of clinics including the pediatric allergy clinic at Children's Mercy, the adult asthma center at University Health, the adult...
Child Neurology Residency - How to Apply
The Child Neurology training program at Children's Mercy accepts three residents per year. We are a categorical program; therefore, two years of pediatrics training and three years of child neurology...
Academic Curriculum Pediatric Dentistry Residency
Pediatric Dentistry is an age-defined specialty that provides both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with...
Pectus Excavatum
Pectus excavatum, or sunken chest, is the most common chest abnormality in children. The experts at Children’s Mercy are recognized leaders in pectus excavatum surgery, including the minimally invasive...
Postdoctoral Psychology Fellowship Program
Our Department Faculty and Trainees Follow Us Email The Child Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Children's Mercy provides training as a Major Area of Study as defined by the Stages of Education...
Frontiers Grant Supports Framework for Subject Matching
Keith Feldman, PhD, received a Frontiers award to use data representations to identify optimal control subjects through a broader set of clinical and temporal criteria.
Cystic fibrosis treatments: Dr. Hugo Escobar receives renewed funding to continue research
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation renewed funding of their Therapeutics Development Network project led by Hugo Escobar, MD, Pulmonology. The $254,699 Therapeutics Development Center Award is for one year and...
Dr. Jessica Markham Receives Funding to Study Sources of Antibiotic Prescribing Variability Among Front-Line Providers
Dr. Markham’s study “Standardizing Antibiotic Prescribing for Children Hospitalized with Infections using Novel Metrics and Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tools” will address inappropriate antibiotic...
Children’s Mercy and Ugandan Collaborators Receive NIH Funding to Test a Novel Communication Strategy to Promote HIV Testing
The project “Enhancing communication on relationship preservation, safer conception and PrEP to promote HIV testing,” received a 3-year $632,187 Formative and Pilot Intervention Research for Prevention and...
Dr. Amy Smith Receives Funding to Study How Parent-Child Engagement During Music Enrichment Classes Relate to Early Indicators of Long-Term Health Risk
Dr. Smith will use the funding on her project “The impact of a music enrichment program on health and developmental outcomes during early childhood”. The project follows early results from a randomized...
Dr. Emily Farrow Receives Grant to Develop, Test Comprehensive Panel for Early Detection of Angelman Syndrome
Dr. Farrow’s project will address the current limitations of diagnostic testing for Angelman Syndrome by utilizing a novel long read (LR) based sequencing approach, capturing multiple disease categories...
Drs. Erickson, Edwards and Bakula receive funding to expand CHAMP App to patients weaning from tube feeding
The project will implement the mobile health software platform known as CHAMP® App to help patients with feeding tubes transition from tube to oral feeding in their home, using remote monitoring.
Neurosurgery
Children's Mercy specialists evaluate all phases of pediatric neurological disease. Our program is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top programs in the country.