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Clinical Experience - Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
Fellows will have opportunities to manage a wide-array of pediatric pathology during their fellowship training. As the only regional pediatric trauma center, PEM faculty & fellows manage level 1 and level...
Application Requirements
Qualifications Graduate degree from a master’s-level program at an accredited college or university, preferably from a Health Care Administration program. Past candidates have possessed an MBA, MHSA...
Faculty - Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship
Fellowship Director Amanda McIntosh, MD (816) 302-3694 ammcintosh@cmh.edu Associate Program Directors Ryan A. Romans, MD (816) 302-3649 raromans@cmh.edu Chris Mathis, MD (819) 458-3479 cmathis@cmh.edu...
Children’s Mercy Research Institute Opens in Spring 2021
The Children’s Mercy Research Institute opens in spring 2021 as the hub of pediatric research and discovery, committed to research with a purpose.
Study Looks at Psychosocial Factors and Asthma Links
Elin Grundberg, PhD received an award to study how exposure to psychosocial factors such as chronic stress is linked to pathophysiology of asthma.
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.
Study Looks at Liver Drug Regulation and Cholesterol
Jonathan Wagner, DO, received a grant to determine how liver fat affects hepatocellular drug transport and pediatric statin response.
Predicting Asthma Treatment Response in Children
Bridgette Jones, MD, MSCR, received an NIH grant for her research on predicting treatment response in children with asthma.
Dr. Staggs Serves as U.S. Expert on International Study of Psychiatric Restraint Use
Vincent Staggs, PhD was invited to join a team of researchers from universities in New Zealand, Japan, and Australia to compare rates of mechanical restraint in psychiatric care.
Dr. Warady Receives Nearly $5.8 Million Award for the “Chronic Kidney Disease in Children” Study
Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) face increased health risks beyond their primary kidney disorder. CKiD V continues the observational CKiD study that began in 2003 and that follows 1,100 children...
3 Investigators Receive Funding from the Global Platform for the Prevention of Autoimmune Diabetes
“Our goal is to identify key epigenomic switches that determine the activity state of the immune system which lead to the development of type 1 diabetes. Identifying those switches could lead to early...
Dr. Paprocki Receives Award from Foundation for Prader-Willi Research to Gather Data Surrounding Growth Hormone Therapy, Sleep Disturbances
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genetic disorder that can cause intellectual disabilities, behavioral problems, sleep abnormalities, and obesity due to extreme hunger. In infancy, signs and symptoms...
Dr. Thomas Cochran Receives Discovery and Innovation Award from Western New York BloodCare
“Further understanding of the role of hepcidin in the hemophilia population would directly improve outcomes and prevent the complications of iron deficiency in children with hemophilia,” said Dr. Cochran.
Dr. Helena Laroche Receives NIH Award to Study the Role of Parental Bandwidth in Child Obesity Treatment
The goals of this project are to determine whether adding a community health worker (CHW) to a child obesity treatment intervention improves outcomes for children from families with social risk factors...
Dr. Robin Shook Receives CDC Funding to Improve Health and Prevent Chronic Disease in Kansas City
The REACH funding will help Dr. Shook improve health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities among Latino and Black communities in the Kansas City metro area, which is the fifth most...
Dr. Erin Guest Receives New Grant from Noah’s Bandage Project for Study Focusing on Leukemia in which the KMT2A Gene is Rearranged
Dr. Guest and her study team will address this unmet need for children with leukemia in which the KMT2A gene is rearranged by defining new genes and genetic pathways involved in leukemia progression and...
Three Investigators Receive Braden’s Hope Grants to Further Childhood Cancer Research
Three Children’s Mercy investigators received new pediatric cancer research awards, totaling $700,000. The grants, independently awarded by Braden’s Hope for Childhood Cancer, will further collaborations...
New Angelman Syndrome Clinic
In December 2022, a new Angelman Syndrome Clinic opened up at Children's Mercy. It is a medical home for patients but also serves as an important hub for innovative new research.
CODIEFY Study Offers Kid-focused COVID-19 Clarity
The CODIEFY study uses COVID-19 testing and single-cell genomic sequencing technology and other tools to create evidence-based COVID-19 education.
Type 1 Diabetes and Big Data: Predicting the Future of Health Care
Children’s Mercy Research Institute and Cyft, Inc. have partnered on a grant-funded project that uses data science and advanced prediction methods to help improve diabetes care before negative outcomes can...