Dr. Katharine Button has been promoted to vice president and chief medical officer for Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists, the medical group practice of Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
In her new role, Dr. Button will be 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 joined Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists as executive medical director in 2022, after serving as an attending physician with the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., where she also managed finance and strategy for the division.
Dr. Button earned her medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She completed her 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.
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.
About Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Where Children Matter Most ™ (2024)
Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's #1 nonprofit, freestanding specialty licensed hospital exclusively for children. With more than 850 physicians, including over 500 pediatric subspecialists, the hospital and its network of outpatient centers and offices serve close to 70% of children in the Miami market. The only hospital "where your child matters most™,” Nicklaus Children's is home to the region's most advanced Kenneth C. Griffin Surgical Tower, and its centers of excellence Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, the Nicklaus Children’s Orthopedics, Sports Health and Spine Institute, Nicklaus Children’s Brain Institute and Nicklaus Children’s Heart Institute. The Nicklaus Children's Hospital's Transfer Center, Nick4Kids, and LifeFlight are responsible for transporting and saving close to 5,000 lives a year. Our 307-bed hospital, which is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine, has many specialty programs routinely ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. Nicklaus Children's is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States and since 2003 has been designated an American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession's most prestigious institutional honor. For more information, please visit www.nicklauschildrens.org.