Patty serves as a program manager for Trauma-Informed Care at Children's Mercy Kansas City, moving the healthcare system toward a trauma-informed organization through both awareness building and institutional changes designed to incorporate the Trauma-Informed Key Principles into all policies, practices and procedures. She has a long history of treating children and families for traumatic stress through evidence-based practices and increasing awareness and access to those practices.  Patty serves as a commission for the Community Healthcare Coalition of Missouri, a state-wide community effort focused on reducing the impact of toxic stress of racism and trauma on health and wellbeing. She is a co-founder and past-president of Missouri Association of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, whose mission it is to optimize wellbeing in the early years by promoting first relationships and advancing effective infant mental health practice. 

Patty has been an invited author and content expert for national on-line educational courses through Children’s Hospital Association on Delivery of Trauma-Informed Healthcare. She is primary author on research showing system wide education can show measurable effect in a NICU setting.  She has co-authored policy and human resource guidelines for organizations working to become trauma-informed and is an invited speaker at local, state and national conferences, speaking frequently on the signs and symptoms of traumatic stress, effective treatments to prevent and mitigate the effects of trauma, and on building trauma-informed systems of care with cultural humility and equity building.