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)
Founded in 1950 by Variety Clubs International, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is South
Florida’s only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children, with approximately
850 attending physicians, including more than 500 pediatric subspecialists. The 307-bed
hospital is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine with many specialty programs
routinely ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. The
hospital is also home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern
United States and since 2003 has been designated an American Nurses Credentialing
Center (ANCC) Magnet facility, the nursing profession’s most prestigious institutional
honor. For more information, please visit www.nicklauschildrens.org.