Primary Care - Pediatric Top Topics

Faculty

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  Joshua Belfer (Learn More)
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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  Thomas W. Tryon, MD, MBA, FAAP, FCUCM (Learn More)
  Dr. Tom Tryon is a general pediatrician with broad-based experience in adult and pediatric ER and Urgent Care as well as primary care pediatrics and pediatric urgent care. Following residency at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Dr. Tryon practiced for four years as a solo practitioner and sole pediatrician in a rural community, as well as a half-time solo ER physician in a Level III Trauma Center ED. He then moved his pediatric practice to an urban solo practice for six years, where he also worked half-time as an adult minor ER and Urgent Care physician. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine. Dr. Tryon has served in multiple leadership roles with three different hospitals including Chief of OB/Peds, Chief of Pediatrics, Chief of Medicine for a 370- bed adult and pediatric health system, and Associate Division Director of Urgent Care for his current children’s hospital. Recently, he served as Pediatric Section Chair for the Urgent Care Association as well as a Director on the Board of Directors and as Secretary of the Board of Directors. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics and a Fellow in the College of Urgent Care Medicine.
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  Stephen C. Eppes, M.D. (Learn More)
  Christiana Care Health System Director of Pediatric Infectious Disease Vice Chair, Pediatrics Associate Infection Prevention Officer Professor of Pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 04/25/22
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  Jackie K. Tryon, RN, BSN, IBCLC (Learn More)
  Jackie Tryon is a registered nurse and certified lactation consultant who has spent over 40 years working with breastfeeding mothers in multiple clinical settings, including in a Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery, newborn nursery, post-partum floor, and as an inpatient lactation consultant in a pediatric hospital. She also worked for over a decade in her husband Tom’s solo pediatric practice as an office lactation consultant. Most recently, she was a lactation consultant for a large and busy outpatient pediatric practice in Kansas City. Jackie is the proud mother of four children: Chris, Rebecca, Andy and Jack, with three of the four children practicing in healthcare and the youngest working as an associate teacher. Besides her husband and children, her passion is heirloom sewing, gardening and interior decorating. Along with Tom, her lucky husband of 38 years, they live in Smithville, Missouri just outside of Kansas City.