Katharine Button, MD
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists
Dr. Katharine Button is a pediatric emergency medicine specialist and serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists (NCPS), the multispecialty medical group practice of Nicklaus Children’s Health System. In this role, Dr. Button is responsible for the strategic vision and oversight of the 300-member practice, ensuring alignment with health system clinical strategies, quality programs and enhancing the patient and physician experience.
Dr. Button is a seasoned physician with more than a decade of experience and joins Nicklaus Children’s from Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. where she was an attending physician with the Division of Emergency Medicine, for which she also managed finance and strategy.
Dr. Button earned her medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she stayed on for an additional two years working in both pediatric critical care and in the urgent care division of the Emergency Department. She then pursued a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts. Her clinical interests include medical and trauma resuscitation in the Emergency Department, airway management, the approach to altered mental status in pediatric patients, and simulation education.
Dr. Button is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine. She has served on the Finance Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and she has presented at medical conferences.
Dr. Button is employed by Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists (NCPS). She speaks English and French.