Adam Booser

I am an experienced pediatric anesthesiologist with 18 years of treating children in a tertiary hospital setting. I have experience and expertise in pediatric cardiac and thoracic anesthesia, pediatric liver transplant anesthesia, pediatric trauma, advanced pediatric airway management, acute pain management, and pediatric complex/chronic inpatient and outpatient pain management. I have adult anesthesia experience working as an attending at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, an all-orthopedic hospital. There, I became proficient in acute pain management and all ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia techniques in adult and pediatric patients. I have been on the Ethics Committee for over a decade and have provided ethics consultations for Children’s Mercy Hospital for the last eight years. I am certified and an instructor of point-of-care transthoracic echocardiography and lung ultrasound through the FATE (Focused Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography) protocol. I have conducted two FATE courses for anesthesiologists and intensive care pediatricians at Children’s Mercy Hospital. I enjoy being an instructor to residents and fellows. I also look forward to doing more research and publishing more within the area of pediatric pain medicine.

• 2006-Present American Board of Anesthesiology Diplomat Cert. # 39071
• 2014-Present American Board of Anesthesiology Pediatric Cert. # 39071
• American Board of Pain Medicine Certification 2023
• FATE (Focused Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography) Instructor
• BLS, ACLS, PALS current

• 05/2014, Current, Attending Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
• 11/2020 - 04/2022, Director Comprehensive Pain Management
• 2015 - 3/2023, Inpatient Complex and Chronic Medical Pain Consultant
• 11/2020 - 03/2023, Outpatient Chronic and Medical Pain Clinic Consultant
• 2014 - present, Member of the Transplant Anesthesia Team
• 2014 - present, Ethics Committee member
• 9/2012 - 5/2014, Assistant Attending Anesthesiologist, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
• 9/2005 - 8/2012, Attending Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

• Dean's Honor Roll at Rockhurst University 1994-1996
• Honorary Director's Scholarship 1994-1996
• Honorary Award Recognition in the National Dean's List, 18th Annual Edition, Rockhurst University
• 2004 Joseph F. Artusio Award for Outstanding Resident for Graduating Class of 2004 Weill Cornell Medical College
• 2023 Kansas City Best Doctor Award for Pediatric Anesthesiology

• 1995-1997 Volunteer Caregiver for Heart of America Hospice of Kansas City
• 2007-2009 Cardiac Surgical Missions to Donetsk, Ukraine – educational training program to develop new congenital cardiac surgical service
• 02/2010 Surgical Mission Trip to Jacmel and Leogane, Haiti
• 05/2010 Surgical Mission Trip to Leogane, Haiti
• 01/2012 Surgical Mission Trip to Jacmel, Haiti
• 02/2013 Surgical Mission Trip to Jacmel, Haiti

• 2003-Present New York State 232453
• 2005-Present Missouri 2005021802
• 2005-Present Kansas 04-31385
• 2021-Present California C 171405
• 2020-Present Colorado DR.0065415

• 2007, 2009 Instructor - Difficult Airway Workshop Missouri Society of Anesthesiology Meeting
• 8/2008 “Anesthesia Review for Perioperative Nursing Department,” Nursing Department Lecture Series
• 2/2008 “TRALI: Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury,” Anesthesia Department Lecture
• Neonatal Surgical Emergencies” Anesthesia Department Lecture series updated yearly and given to each rotation of residents and fellows at CMH
• Chronic Pain Patients going to the OR” Anesthesia Department Lecture series updated yearly and given to each rotation of residents and fellows at CMH
• Ethics for Anesthesia Residents,” Anesthesia Department Lecture series updated yearly and given to each rotation of residents and fellows at CMH
• Multimodal Anesthesia/Analgesia” Anesthesia Department Lecture series updated yearly and given to each rotation of residents and fellows at CMH
• 2008 Presentation - "Anes-ethics - Ethics in the Operating Room” Children's Mercy Hospital Ethics Lecture Series
• 5/2019 “Spinal Tap” Presentation for Emergency Department to change to atraumatic LP needles
• 5/2016 “Spinal Tap” Presentation for Emergency Department to change to atraumatic LP needles
• 5/2012 “Ethical Issues in Anesthesiology” for hospital-wide ethics committee lecture series
• 12/2012 “Anesthesia Review for Perioperative Nursing Department,” Nursing Department Lecture at Hospital for Special Surgery
• 5/2013 Instructor – 17th Annual Symposium, Best Practices in Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery – Hospital for Special Surgery
• 10/2013 Hospital for Special Surgery Grand Rounds “Intrathecal Opioid for Postsurgical Pain Management"
• 2014 “Neurotoxicity of Anesthetics” First given at HSS, then as part of the Anesthesia Department Lecture series updated yearly and given to each rotation of residents and fellows at CMH
• 8/2014 “Post-Surgical Chronic Pain Syndrome” Anesthesia Department Lecture series updated yearly and given to each rotation of residents and fellows at CMH
• 2/2017 “Spinal Tap” Presentation for Children’s Mercy Emergency Department to change to atraumatic LP needles
• 3/2017 Grand Rounds Presentation at Children's Mercy Hospital - "Multimodal Analgesia in Pediatric Practice"
• 2018 “Pain Management for Orthopedics” Orthopedic Department Lecture series updated yearly and given to each rotation of orthopedic residents and fellows at CMH
• 8/2018 “Children’s Mercy Hospital Anesthesia Department Mass Casualty Plan,” a proposal to bring our department up to the challenge of mass casualty events involving children
• 2017, 2018 Chief Instructor of FATE (Focused Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography) course. A POC emergency ultrasound course for anesthesiologists and critical care physicians at Children's Mercy Hospital
• 5/2021 “Spinal Tap” Presentation for Children’s Mercy Neurology Department to change to atraumatic LP needles
• 8/2021 “The Ethics of Pediatric Pain Management” Ethics Committee Brown Bag Workshop
• 03/03/2022 “A Case of Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia on the Oncology Floor” Anesthesiology Department Lecture Series
• 01/31/2023 “Opioid-Induced Neurotoxicity and Hyperalgesia in the NICU- Two Cases” presentation to Neonatology Department
• 03/09/2023 Pediatric Intensive Care Lecture Series “Opioid-Induced Neurotoxicity, Including Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia”
• 3/2023 North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Annual Meeting, Presentation “Endometriosis Pain, A Collaborative Effort"
• 04/06/2023 “Shifting from Preemptive to Preventative Analgesia” Anesthesia Department CQI Meeting and Lecture
• 09/29/2023 “Management of Pelvic Pain in Adolescents” 56th Annual Clinical Advances in Pediatrics Symposium – Children’s Mercy Hospital
• 10/06/2023 “Adolescent Endometriosis Pain Treatment: A Collaborative Effort” University of Louisville Pediatric Grand Rounds - Sally Perlman Lectureship. Collaborative Effort

• 2001-Present American Society of Anesthesiology
• 2005-Present Missouri Society of Anesthesiology
• 2004-Present Society of Pediatric Anesthesiology
• 2015-Present Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine
• 2019-Present American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
• 2022-Present International Society for the Study of Pain
• 2022-Present American Academy of Pain Medicine

1. Botulinum Toxin Injections as a Treatment of Refractory Vulvodynia in Adolescents: A Case Series. Journal of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology, Dr Tazim Dowlut-McElroy, Co-Authors: Julia Bhuiyan; Kaiane Anoush Habeshian, MD; Adam C Booser, MD; Veronica Gomez-Lobo, MD Manuscript Number: JPAG-D-23-00020R1 

2. The Astonishingly Slow Progress Towards Surgical Anesthesia Part I. Historical Perspective. Adam Booser, MD. MO Med. 2021 Nov-Dec; 118(6): 511–517. 

3. Ethics Rounds: Preventing self-harm from repeat foreign body ingestion. Christina Low Kapalu, PhD, John Lantos, MD, Adam Booser, MD, Mike Thomson, MD, Thomas Attard, MD Pediatrics (2020) 145 (1): e20191515. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2019-1515.

4. Ethics Rounds: When Parents Have Misunderstandings About the Risks and Benefits of Palliative Surgery. Berklee Robins, Adam Booser, John D. Lantos Pediatrics (2018) 142 (6): e20180482. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2018-0482. 5

5. Prophylactic versus reactive transfusion of thawed plasma in patients undergoing surgical repair of craniosynostosis: a randomized clinical trial. Pieters BJ, Conley L, Weiford J, Hamilton M, Wicklund B, Booser A, Striker A, Whitney S, Singhal V Pediatric Anesthesia, 2014, 25(3), 279‐287 | added to CENTRAL: 30 April 2015 | 2015 Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.12571