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.