Thomas Tryon MD, MBA, FAAP, FCUCM

Dr. Thomas W. Tryon is a clinical urgent care physician and is the former Associate Division Director of the Section of Urgent Care for Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine. Dr. Tryon has been a full-time pediatric urgent care physician since 2006. Dr. Tryon resigned from his leadership role in December 2015 in order to focus more of his time on an entrepreneurial venture company Dynamic Health Inventions, LLC, and the production of a healthcare software innovation called MyHealthAdvisor. In his previous leadership role, he oversaw the building, development, and clinical operations of three pediatric urgent care centers, including a staff of approximately 70 full, part-time, and moonlighting physicians. The urgent care centers most recently this past fiscal year saw almost 85,000 patients while generating over $60 million in revenue.

Following his pediatric residency training at Children’s Mercy Hospital, he practiced for eleven years in full-time pediatric solo practice and half-time adult and pediatric emergency medicine and urgent care practice in southwest Missouri and northeast Oklahoma before returning to Children’s Mercy in 2006.

Dr. Tryon has been married for 34 years to his wife Jackie, a pediatric nurse and lactation consultant. They have four children: Chris, a pediatric critical care fellow at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky; Rebecca, a Genetic Counselor working with the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Drew, a nursing student at Denver School of Nursing, and Jack, a college freshman in Kansas City. They live in Smithville, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City, close to Smithville Lake where they enjoy boating, fishing, and golf.