Division of Emergency Medical Services

The Division of Emergency Medical Services includes The Sections of Emergency Medicine, Team for Children at Risk, Urgent Care at Children's Mercy South and Northland, and the Fellowship Program for Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medical Services performs clinical services in Three facilities: CMH Main Campus (Kansas City, MO), CMH South (Overland Park, KS), and CMH Northland. It trains residents and fellows for Pediatric emergency medicine 3 year fellowship program and does researches focusing on clinical care, injury prevention, child abuse, health services, Several projects intra- and extramurally funded, including subcontracts with other universities. Emergency Medical Services participates in several policy committees locally and state-wide related to child safety and EMS, and Operates the Children's Mercy Hospital Center for Childhood Safety and large federal grant funded project which is developing a model for domestic violence screening in the pediatric emergency department.


Lisa Schroeder, MD	Milton Fowler, MD	Thomas Tryon, MD
Medical Director, Emergency Department; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine	Section Chief, and Medical Director, Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine	Medical Director, Northland Urgent Care Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

The Division of Emergency Medical Services is made up of the physicians who are experienced in the care of pediatric emergencies, urgencies and child abuse/sexual assault at our Emergency Department, Urgent Care Centers at Children's Mercy South and Children's Mercy Northland, and our CARE Clinic.

Ayman Abdul-Rauf , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Rebecca Alfred , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
James Anderst , MD, MS	CARE Clinic, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Aaron N. Barksdale , MD
Theodore Barnett , MD	Medical Director of Distaster Medicine Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Stephanie Bays , DO	Children's Mercy Northland Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Mala Bhagat , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Gretchen E. Black , DO	Children's Mercy South UCC, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Allison Burris , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine
Jane Buss , MD, FAAP	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Kathleen Cita , MD	Children's Mercy Northland Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Cole S. Condra , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Gregory P. Conners , MD, FAAP, MPH, MBA, FACEP	Chief of the Division of Emergency Medical Services, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Marsha Dannenberg , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Jennifer J. Dilts , DO	Northland Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Denise Dowd , MD, MPH, PEM	Director of Research Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Martha Duffin , DO	Children's Mercy Northland Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Laura Fitzmaurice , MD	Chief Medical Information Officer; Associate Executive Medical Director; Division Chief – EMS & Associate Chair; Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs Department of Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
Milton Fowler , MD	Section Chief and Medical Director, Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine
Megan E. Fraker , MD	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City
James Garner , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Joan Giovanni , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Lisa M. Green , MD	Northland Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Mary Hegenbarth , MD	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Ryan C. Jacobsen , MD
Chelsea Johnson , MD	Children's Mercy Northland Urgent Care
Jennifer K Johnson , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Timothy D. Johnson , DO	Director of Knowledge Translation, Medical Informatics Group Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Warren C. Johnson, III. , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center
Heather Joyce , MD	Assitant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine
Heather R. Joyce , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Sibyl E. Jura , MD	Northland Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Michael Kasper , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center
James C. Kelly , MD	Director of Emergency Ultrasound, APN Coordinator, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Christopher S. Kennedy , MD	PEM Fellowship Director, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine
Jane F. Knapp , MD	Associate Chair for Education, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Kelly Kreisler , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center
Carlito Laude , MD	Children's Mercy Northland Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Keith Linas , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Valerie L. McDougall-Kestner , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Jeffrey Michael , DO	Pediatric Emergency Medicine Rotation Director; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Melissa Miller , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Mary Moffatt , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine
Kari C. Moore Larson , MD	Minor Care Clinic and Children's Mercy Northland Urgent Care
Michael Moran , MD	Northland Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Lauren Olson , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Lina M. Patel , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Edna Perez-Koury , MD, MPH, MPA	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Tamara L. Peterson , DO
Diane Plantz , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine
Jamie J. Quintana , DO	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Kimberly A. Randell , MD, MSc	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Michael W. Riker , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Betty Scarborough , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Beth L. Schissel , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Robert Schremmer , MD	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Lisa L. Schroeder , MD	Interim Chief, Division of Emergency Medical Services; Medical Director, Emergency Department; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
Katherine Schukai , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Nirav Shastri , MD	Children's Mercy South Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Lance Shipman , MD	Children's Mercy South - Urgent Care Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Elisa Silverstein , MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Kelly A. Sinclair , MD, FAAP	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Lisa Santos Spector , MD	Emergency Medicine, Children-At-Risk, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Celeste Tarantino , MD	Associate Director of Pediatric Residency Program, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Joshua Timock , MD	Children's Mercy Hospital Emergency Department; Children's Mercy Northland Urgent Care Center; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Thomas W. Tryon , MD, FAAP	Children's Mercy Northland Urgent Care Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Andrea M. Vandeven , MD, MPH	Team for Children at Risk, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Irene Walsh , MD	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine
Jennifer Watts , MD, MPH	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine