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A Board-certified molecular genetic pathologist, Dr. Caughron was named on Ingram's annual Top Doctors list, joining 15 other physicians from the Kansas City region who exhibit the highest levels of care, compassion and competence as providers.
Dr. Caughron serves as AdventHealth’s Medical Staff President, a role he was selected to lead due to his leadership and contributions to the medical staff at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission. Most notably, he was instrumental in leading AdventHealth Shawnee Mission’s medical and clinical staff through the pandemic while keeping a calming and reassuring presence that “we will get through this together.”
A native of Kansas City, Dr. Caughron grew up on a 30-acre hobby farm with cows, chickens and six siblings, and was home-schooled before venturing away to earn a medical degree from Creighton University, where he also completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology.
“What I found was my personality and what I enjoyed was a better fit for pathology,” said Dr. Caughron. “I always enjoyed trying to figure out how things work—took a lot of stuff apart when I was a kid. And now, in pathology, I get to figure out what’s going on and work with colleague physicians on the complex side of medicine.”
He completed a fellowship in molecular genetic pathology in 2007 at Vanderbilt University and practiced with Yellowstone Pathology Institute in Billings, Montana for two years. In 2009, he relocated to Kansas City to join MAWD Pathology at which time he also joined the AdventHealth medical staff. He became a partner with MAWD in 2012 and president of the group in 2015.
Read more about Dr. Caughron and the 2024 Top Doctors here.
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