Faculty Bio of Adam Booser, MD

Adam Booser, MD, has been a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital since 2005. He has served on the cardiac anesthesia team and currently serves on the transplant anesthesia team. Dr. Booser was the Director of Comprehensive Pain at Children’s Mercy Hospital from 2020 to 2022. From 2014-2021, he served as the Director of Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesia at Children's Mercy Hospital. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; Clinical Instructor of Anesthesiology, University of Kansas School of Medicine.

In 2000, Dr. Booser started out his training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Johns Hopkins Hospital before swithing into anethesiology. He moved to New York City for anesthesilogy residency (2001-2004) at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Memorial Sloan Kettering. Dr. Booser then went on to complete a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Colorado Children’s in Denver (2004-2005.)

In June of 2023, Dr. Booser obtained board certification in Pain Medicine through the American Board of Pain Medicine. His specific interests in pediatric pain medicine include centralized and neuropathic pain conditions, chronic pediatric pain, pain medicine in the NICU and PICU, peripheral and neuraxial regional analgesia in treating complex and chronic pain, pediatric headache/migraine/facial pain, opioid-induced neurotoxicity, and pediatric pelvic pain disorders, especially endometriosis.

Dr. Booser also has served on the Ethics Committee for over a decade and is one of the Ethics Committee consultants for Children’s Mercy Hospital Hospital.

Professional Organization Memberships              

•                                                                                       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

Publications

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. 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 30 April 2015 | 2015 Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.12571