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Faculty and Fellows

Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship

Six Children's Mercy gastroenterology fellows pose together in an office.

The faculty in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Children's Mercy is a diverse and experienced group of mentors, representing a wide variety of academic interests.

Program Director

Voytek Slowik, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

Associate Program Director

Halee Patel, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

Director of Fellowship Research

Rachel Chevalier, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

Program Coordinator

Rachel Laws, MBA

Fellows
Rasheed Ansari, DO

Daniel Borman, MD
Antonia Fernandez Ovalle, MD
Sofia Colon Guzman, MD
Kirby Lampe, DO
Victoria Sarata, MD

Faculty and staff

Meet the team from the Division of Gastroenterology.

 

Several male and female clinicians, many in white coats, gather together in an office setting.

Alumni

 

2024
Moises Alatorre Jimenez, MD - Sanford Children's Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD
Alex Biller, DO - University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, VA

2023
Laurie McCann, DO – Midwest Pediatric Specialists, Overland Park, KS
Jeremy Stewart, MD – Children's Medical Center Plano- Dallas, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

2022
Jennifer Halma, MD – Fellow, Advanced Transplant Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Kenneth Schmidt, MD – University at Buffalo and Oishei Children’s Hospital, Buffalo, NY

2021
Amy Issa, DO – University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
Panamdeep Kaur, MD – University at Buffalo and Oishei Children’s Hospital, Buffalo, NY

2020
Nathan Fleishman, MD – Atrium Health – Levine Children’s Specialty Center, Charlotte, NC
Taina Jausurawong, DO – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

2019
Dalya El Tawil, MD – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Antoinette Adjowa Walker, MD – Cincinnati Children’s, Cincinnati, OH

2018
Tim Blaufuss, DO – Sanford Children’s Hospital, Fargo, ND
Rebecca Casini, DO – NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL

2017
Nadia Ibrahimi, MD – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Voytek Slowik, MD- Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

2015
Carrie Reynolds, MD – Rocky Mountain Hospital Pediatric Gastroenterology, Denver, CO
Katie Sturgeon, MD – Rocky Mountain Hospital Pediatric Gastroenterology, Grand Junction, CO

2014
Sarah Edwards, DO – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Nadia M. Hijaz, MD – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Joplin, MO
Valentina Shahknovich, MD – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

2011
Julie A. Bass, DO – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Julia M. Bracken, MD – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Seth Septer, DO – Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

2010
Stephanie L. Page, MD – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

2009
Jennifer L. McCullough, MD – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

2008
Jennifer M. Colombo, MD – Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

Our Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship team

Voytek Slowik, MD
Program Director
vslowik@cmh.edu

Halee Patel, MD
Associate Program Director
hpatel1@cmh.edu

Rachel Laws, MBA
Fellowship Coordinator
rmlaws@cmh.edu