Laura Fitzmaurice, MD, FAAP, FACEP, FAMIA

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine; Associate Executive Medical Director, Chief Medical Information Officer, Senior Director Clinical Applications, Interim Division Director Emergency Services, Children’s Mercy Hospital

Laura Fitzmaurice, MD, FAAP, FACEP, FAMIA is a professor of pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, and the chief medical information officer and executive medical director at Children’s Mercy Hospital. She was the division chief of emergency medical services from 2000 to 2009, associate chair of clinical affairs for the Department of Pediatrics from 2006 to 2009 and is now the CMIO and returning interim division director of emergency services at Children’s Mercy.

She has been involved nationally in health information technology as a member of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions’ advisory committee, as well as regionally as a member and chair of a bi-state (Kansas/Missouri) regional Health Information Exchange—Lewis And Clark Information Exchange board. She has also worked for the state on an advisory committee workgroup on meaningful use.

Fitzmaurice is board-certified in pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine and clinical informatics. She also completed a fellowship in integrative medicine. She is active nationally as the past-chair of the American Academy of Pediatric’s Section on Emergency Medicine and present member of the AAP’s Council on Clinical Information Technology, as well as a member of the AAP’s Child Health Informatics Center Project Advisory Committee. She is a member of the executive committee of Cerner's Pediatric Leadership Council. Fitzmaurice has led and facilitated telemedicine initiatives prior to and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic until taking the interim division director of emergency services position on July 1, 2020.  She is presently the past president of the medical staff at Children's Mercy and works to improve interoperability and provider efficiency.