Faculty & Disclosures

Dr. Addington completed her medical education at University of Kansas School of Medicine and pediatric residency at Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City (CM). She is currently a pediatric urgent care physician with Children's Mercy Kansas City. She is the Medical Director for Children's Mercy Kansas City's East Urgent Care and the Director for Professional Development and Engagement for the Division of Urgent Care. In the professional development role, Dr. Addington is actively involved in mentoring pediatric urgent care providers through academic promotion. She is also working to develop meaningful engagement opportunities for pediatric urgent care providers within the CM organization.

Dr. Brenner is the Medical Director of CHKD's Sports Medicine program and the director of CHKD's sports concussion, dance medicine and running medicine programs. He is also the director of the CSG Sports Medicine division. His most recent interest has been in developing a program of Mindfulness for the young athlete. He is currently a professor of pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). He is trained in Pediatrics, Sports Medicine and Adolescent Medicine.

Dr. Brenner is the past chairperson for the AAP Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness and a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine. He is currently on the VHSL Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, The Virginia Chapter AAP Board of Directors and a member of the Youth Sports Mental Health & Wellness Alliance.

He is the team physician for local high schools and the Governor’s School for the Performing Arts.

He was one of the co-editors for the January 2017 British Journal of Sports Medicine issue on the young athlete and the lead author of the AAP Sports Specialization and Overuse, Overtraining and Burnout reports. He also helped create the 2016 NBA and USA Basketball’s Youth Basketball Guidelines.

Dr. Kyzwana Caves is the Director of Adolescent Medicine Division and Co-Director of the Gender Health Clinic at CHKD. Dr. Caves' clinical and research interests include health equity for adolescents and young adults (AYA), reproductive health, STI prevention and LGBTQIA+ healthcare. As an Adolescent medicine specialist, she also works closely with many mental health specialists to provide interdisciplinary care for complex mental health conditions and diagnoses. She partners with several community organizations in Hampton Roads to disseminate messaging for adolescents and their families about substance use, building health relationships and reproductive health education.

Jamie Golden, MD PhD specializes in pediatric general and thoracic surgery. She earned her undergraduate degree in biology and history at Tufts University, medical degree at New York Medical College, and doctorate degree in medical biology at the University of Southern California Keck School of medicine. She completed her general surgery residency at Northwell Health, pediatric surgery research fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and pediatric surgical fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Golden’s clinical interests span all aspects of pediatric and neonatal surgery with a specific focus on minimally invasive and robotic surgery, intestinal disorders, neonatal anomalies, surgical oncology and hepatobiliary disease, and chest wall deformities. She has also been involved in research, education, and mentorship and is an active member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. John Harrington is a board-certified general academic pediatrician.  He is married with three children; 2 neuro-typical daughters aged 30 and 26, and a 28-year-old son with autism, who is now a gainfully employed at Versability on the Norfolk Naval Base.  Dr. Harrington is a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow recipient for primary care research and completed a 3 year HRSA mentoring program for general pediatric research. Dr. Harrington moved to VA 17 years ago from NY and is currently the Vice-President of Quality/Safety and Clinical Integration at The Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) in Norfolk, VA and still sees predominantly patients with autism 1 day/week. He is also a professor of pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School. 

Raina McLaughlin is a Patient Experience professional who currently serves as the Director of Patient Experience for Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters.  As someone who spends her days working to understand the aspects of interactions that most impact the patient experience and learning what patients and families expect from their care providers, she’ll share her perspectives on how we can provide care while managing unreasonable expectations and some of the most challenging interactions. 

Dr. Usha Sathian has practiced pediatric urgent care in the Atlanta area for over 25 years. As Service Chief of Urgent and Community Care at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, she oversees 8 urgent care centers that generate 200,000 visits per year. She has recently helped open 3 new locations, while maintaining and optimizing care and operations at the more mature locations.

In addition, she oversees Primary Care and Child Advocacy at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She also partners with business development and strategy for the Ambulatory areas of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Health System.

Dr. Deirdre (DeeDee) Stewart completed medical school at the Medical College of Georgia and then completed her pediatric residency at Emory University. After working in a pediatric private practice for several years, she joined Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as a pediatric urgent care physician. She now serves as Area Practice Director in urgent care. Dr. Stewart also serves as Co-Director of the Pediatric Urgent Care fellowship program at Emory University/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and works with pediatric residency programs to provide Pediatric Urgent Care electives for residents.