Kathleen Berchelmann, M.D.

Dr. Berchelmann is a pediatrician, wife and a mother of seven children. She sees patients from birth through young adulthood. Her practice includes all general pediatric and adolescent medical needs, as well as pediatric mental health. She is commonly consulted by families desiring a faith-based approach to depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ADHD, ADD, and autistic spectrum disorder. She speaks nationally on vaccines derived from aborted fetal tissue, also known as human diploid cell line vaccines.

Dr. Berchelmann is board certified in Pediatrics.

After graduating from Amherst college in 1998, she completed a fellowship in medical ethics at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Kathleen graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 2003, and completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She stayed on as clinical faculty at Washington University School of Medicine for another ten years. She also served as Spokesperson for St. Louis Children’s Hospital and learned health marketing through the media. In 2016 she accepted a faculty position at The University of Missouri School of Medicine with a clinical appointment in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis.

In 2018, Dr. Berchelmann founded MyCatholicDoctor, using telehealth to bridge the geographic distance between the patients and families that want Catholic healthcare and the providers that desire to practice their healing arts with the full voice of their faith. She also holds a part-time position as a pediatric hospitalist at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, an affiliate of Columbia University School of Medicine.

Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming,  Oklahoma, Delaware, North Dakota, Maryland, DC, Vermont, Ohio, Louisiana, Idaho, Kentucky, Texas, Georgia

Medicare, Aetna Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Midland’s Choice, UnitedHealthcare, Tricare Select, ConnectiCare, Connecticut Medicaid (Including Husky and Beacon Health), Humana of Connecticut, Sunflower of Kansas (Kansas Medicaid), and UMR, MO Healthnet (Missouri Medicaid), ProviDrs Care, Magnacare

United Healthcare Networks Include: Freedom Plan( Ppo, Epo), Medicare Complete Hmo (02-H), Nexusaco(R/Rb/Rp Hmo, Oa Epo), Charter Plus, Charter Balanced, Core/Core Essential( Hmo, Epo), Nexusaco Nr/Nrb Epo, Navigate, Select Hmo/Select + (00-H), Doctors Plan / Plus Hmo, Nexusaco(Oa Pos,  Rp Pos), Doctors Plan (Epo, Pos), Medicaid Hmo, Pcp (01-H), Core Pos, Oxford Medicare Complete Hmo, Select Epo (00-E), Navigate Plus, Choice Epo (50-E), Nexusaco R/Rb Epo, Choice(Plus Pos(50-P), Hmo/Choice +Hmo (50-H)), Charter, Ppo (00-O), Nexusaco( Nrp Pos, Oa/Oap Hmo, Nr/Nrb/Nrp Hmo), Select Plus-Pos (00-P). Medicare: National Network(Delegated, Hmo), Oxford Medical Mcr, Grp Retiree Mcare Ntl Ppo, Evercare/Erickson Advantage, Medicare Regional Ppo/Snp, Medicare – Restricted Access, National Network( Hmo Delegate ), Select Solutions, Medicare Lppo, Lutheran Psp, Provider Specific Plan. Medicaid: Ri Dsnp (Care) 

BlueCross BlueShield Networks Include: PHP Commercial POS and ASO, PIC PPO, Select Provider Network, Medicare HMO, Medicare PPO, POS and DSNP, and Centennial 2.0

Accepts those who are insured with:
Christian Brothers Ministry Services Plan
Medi-Share
Diocese of Saint Petersburg, Florida
Christendom College

• Pediatric convenient/urgent care for more than 50 conditions including colds, flu, allergies, fever, allergies, headache, nausea/vomiting/diarrhea, urinary tract infections, pink eye, rashes, sore throat, constipation and more.
• Pediatric and adolescent behavioral/mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, ADHD, and more.
• All general pediatric and adolescent medical concerns.
• Vaccination consultation, especially regarding vaccines derived from aborted fetal tissue
• Pediatric behavioral help including depression, anxiety, ADHD
• Adolescent medicine from a Catholic perspective
• Sleep challenges
• All general pediatric and adolescent needs

Thank you so much for all the help! We are so blessed with all of the evidenced based knowledge Dr. Berchelmann has to help us raise our daughter well!  -Elizabeth