What led you to join Swope Health Services? You get to play with kids - who wouldn’t love that? For a while, I thought I might want to be a pediatric surgeon, but I realized I wanted to work in primary care, in family-based preventive care and wellness, not cutting something out of a child’s body. Somewhere during my medical training, it dawned on me that I was happiest on the pediatric rotations. I’ve always been interested in taking care of children. How did you choose pediatrics as your specialty? I was fortunate to participate in programs that gave me a chance to shadow doctors in clinics and confirm that it was right for me. I knew as early as high school that I wanted to be a doctor. When did you know that you wanted to be a doctor? We caught up with him recently to ask a few questions… He joined Swope Health Services in January 2015 as Director of Pediatrics and in April 2016 was named to his current post leading all medical services at SHS. He completed a pediatric residency and a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.īoard-certified in pediatrics (and for a time, in pediatrics emergency medicine), he has worked in children’s health care in the Kansas City area for more than 20 years. A native of Kansas City, KS, he received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE. Kenneth Thomas is the Chief Medical Officer of Swope Health Services.
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