The Clinical Team

We have a team of excellent, experienced, local pediatricians to provide this service.  The physicians who work in our locum tenens program are: 

  • Board Certified or eligible Pediatricians
  • Active Medical Staff Members of Children's Hospital Colorado
  • Familiar with the Colorado/Wyoming region and resources

Steve Poole, MD

Steve Poole, MD, attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine in New York and completed his pediatric residency here at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.  He is professor and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is the Medical Director and founder of the Locum Tenens Service. He and Bart Schmitt developed Children's Hospital Colorado After-Hours Telephone Care call center that serves most pediatric practices in Colorado and Wyoming. His mission has been to develop new programs and models of healthcare to improve the health of children and assist community providers to provide high quality, cost-effective pediatric healthcare. Dr. Poole and his wife, Anita, have three grown sons. He enjoys skiing, tennis, triathlons, and surfing.  

Kathleen Gresh, MD

Kathleen Gresh, MD, has been involved with our Locum Tenens program since 2000. She graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine and completed her pediatric training at the UCHSC.  Dr. Gresh has broad and varied experiences as a pediatrician in Denver, San Francisco, and Rochester NY.  After more than 30 years as a pediatrician, Dr. Gresh "still gets a kick out of working with children." And she says, "All doctors must take time away from their offices occasionally, and it's a great feeling to help while the doctors are on leave.”

Elizabeth "Anne" Wuerslin, MD

Elizabeth "Anne" Wuerslin is a Board Certified pediatrician with additional training in adolescent medicine and public health. She completed her medical training and pediatric residency at Cornell University/New York Hospital in New York City, and did fellowship work at Boston Children's Hospital. Since moving to Colorado in 1991, she has worked in student health, private practice, and in clinics and urgent care centers in the Boulder/Denver areas. She lives in Fort Collins and enjoys the outdoors of Colorado--skiing, hiking, and gardening--and has special interests in international volunteer work abroad. "After extensive coverage of practices in Colorado and Wyoming, I have really gotten to know the Rocky Mountain area and I love it."

Thomas Boschen, MD

Tom Boschen is a pediatrician who retired in 2002 after 29 wonderful years with the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care program in Denver. It took only three months for him to realize that his life was not complete without being able to help kids, which is why he has become a volunteer pediatrician at Doctors Care and Rocky Mountain Youth clinics for the underserved. He teaches medical students at Children's Hospital Colorado Child Health Clinic. He loves his expanded family, woodworking and bicycling, and continuing to practice pediatrics. 

Carol Rosckwoff, MD

Dr. Rosckowff is a product of the Midwest. She grew up in Wisconsin, obtained her BA from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, and her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, Wisconsin. Pediatric Residency was completed at University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital in Madison and at Milwaukee Children’s Hospital. While having and raising three children, whom are now grown, Dr. Rosckowff taught Pediatrics to Family Practice Residents in Northeastern Pennsylvania. She practiced pediatrics, inpatient and outpatient, in Wisconsin and Arizona for thirty plus years. When her first two grandchildren were born in the Denver area in 2008, Dr. Rosckowff moved to Colorado. She is board certified in pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Jean Stevenson, MD

Jean Stevenson has practiced pediatrics in the Denver area for the past 27 years. She hails from the Midwest and received her medical degree from the University of Kansas. After completing her pediatric residency in Phoenix, Arizona, she worked on the Navajo reservation for several years before moving to Denver. Recently retired from Kaiser, she found she missed working with children and their families and is happy to be working on a part-time basis with Children’s Hospital Colorado Locum Tenens Program. Her areas of interest in pediatrics include behavioral and developmental issues, breastfeeding and preventive health. Her outside interests include traveling, gardening, and knitting.

Elaine Scholes, MD

Elizabeth Sweeney, MD

Emi Scala, MD

Anne Moore, MD

Diane Lowinger, MD

Additional physicians provide services on a limited basis.