Email

kidavis@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics-Critical Care
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

BS from Baylor University

05/2002 - Waco, Texas United States

MD from University of Texas at Southwestern

06/2006 - Dallas, Texas United States

Residency at University of Alabama at Birmingham

06/2009 - Birmingham, Alabama United States

Fellowship at University of Alabama at Birmingham

06/2012 - Birmingham, Alabama United States

Certifications

General Pediatrics

#94329

American Board of Pediatrics

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

#1930

American Board of Pediatrics

Honors & Awards

Faculty College Master Teacher Certificate

Center for Research, Innovation, and Scholarship (07/2018 - 02/2020)

Dixon Fellowship

Fellow research award with full salary support and $5000 discretionary funds for research efforts.

University of Alabama at Birmingham (07/2011 - 06/2012)

Fellows Track Symposium Award

American Thoracic Society (05/2011)

Quarterback Club Subspecialty Education Award for Excellence in Resident Education

Teaching fellow of the year as voted by pediatric residents.

University of Alabama at Birmingham (06/2011)

Associate Medical Director of Simulation - The Woodlands

Texas Children's Hospital (08/2018)

Professional Interests

• Team Based Skills
• Applied Improvisation
• Advanced Communication and Conflict Resolution
• Healthcare Simulation
• Safety II and Resilience Engineering

Professional Statement

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine is a high risk environment with infinite opportunities for improvement in clinical care, collaboration, and communication. Healthcare simulation provides the ability to rehearse high risk scenarios. I believe that "all the world's a stage" and healthcare professionals can employ the same techniques actors, dancers, and musicians use to create memorable performances to form high functioning teams with excellent clinical performances. Through a unique collaboration with the Theater community, we are targeting unconscious biases counterproductive to effective teamwork and communication through traditional acting and improvisational exercises, and studying how those improvements translate to simulated and clinical scenarios.

Websites

Professional Development

Comprehensive Instructor Course

Course (Participant, 2019)

Sponsor: Center for Medical Simulation

Alda Medical Experience, IMMERSION 2018: Connect to Care

Conference (Participant, 2018)

Sponsor: Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University

Inaugural two day intensive applied improvisation based communications course with Alan Alda for healthcare professionals.

TED Talk Masterclass

Course (Participant, 2020)

Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital

Selected Publications

• Davis K, Lo HY, Lichliter R, Wallin K, Elegores G, Jacobson S, Doughty C. "Twelve tips for creating an escape room activity for medical education.." Med Teach. 2021 Apr 19;1-6. Pubmed PMID: 33872114
• Nichole R Davis, Cara B Doughty, Tarra Kerr, Gemma Elegores, Kasey I Davis, Brent D Kaziny "Rapidly building surge capacity within a pandemic response using simulation-based clinical systems testing." BMJ STEL. 2020 Oct 6;(Online First)
• Moffett BS, Gutierrez K, Davis K, Sigdel B, Strobel N. "Antipyretic Efficacy of Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients.." Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019 Aug 20;8:e386-e393. Pubmed PMID: 31398182
• Kasey Davis 1 , Sami Banerjee, Arnaud Friggeri, Celeste Bell, Edward Abraham, Mourad Zerfaoui "Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein enhances inhibition of efferocytosis." Mol Med. 2012 May 9;18(1):359-69. Pubmed PMID: 22204001

Projects

Team Building through Simulation Education in a Community Hospital Setting

Texas Children's Hospital (10/2017 - present)

The Woodlands, TX

Applied Improvisation and TeamSTEPPS

(06/2019 - present)

Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics

Fellow

Society for Simulation in Healthcare

International Pediatric Simulation Society

International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education

(01/2019)

Applied Improvisation Network

(01/2019)