Skip to main content
ASCPT 2023 Annual Meeting Main banner
Back

Matthew McLaughlin, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Mercy - Kansas City

Matt McLaughlin is a Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine physician and Clinical Pharmacologist. His primary research centers on optimizing “the right medication for the right patient at the right time to improve outcomes.” He completed the MD/BA 6-year program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City prior to starting his fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia. After graduation from residency, he pursued a clinical Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. During this time, he obtained his Masters in Medical Bioinformatics to help with clinical research design and database management. Upon graduation, he was named a Vice Chancellors Honors Recipient for scholarly activity and positive contributions to the Kansas City community. He received advance training in Clinical Pharmacology by participating in an NICHD T32 Fellowship in Pediatric Clinical and Developmental Pharmacology at Children's Mercy-Kansas City prior to recieving K and R-series funding from the NICHD.

Dr. McLaughlin’s primary research work has centered around precision medicine in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy (CP) and the interaction of molecules at the blood-brain barrier. Clinically, he remains passionate about how to employ the pharmacogenetics associated with alterations in medication absorption, distribution, elimination and metabolism with improving clinical outcomes. His work earned him the Best Original Research Article by a Young Physician by the PM&R Journal in 2018, an Early Career Research Award from Children's Mercy and the Presidential Trainee Award from the ASCPT prior to receiving the Darrell Abernethy Early Stage Investigator Award. An avid historian, Dr. McLaughlin was proud to see he walks the same halls at the University of Kansas Medical School as this awards namesake, Dr. Darrel Abernethy. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Mercy – Kansas City.

Presentation(s):

Back to Top