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 The Children’s Hospital
  • 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  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 the Children’s Hospital 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.  

Thomas J. Wera, MD

Dr. Wera has been involved with our Locum Tenens Service since 1994. He completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1972. Dr. Wera was in private practice in Fort Collins. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado. His wife of over 35 years and three grown children support his work as a “traveling pediatrician,” allowing him the flexibility the locum tenens program often demands.

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 28 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.”

Angela Zang, MD

Dr. Zang has been with The Children’s Hospital Regional Healthcare Network since August 2000. Born and raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania, she completed her residency training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx in 1998.  She worked at the North Central Bronx Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department, and has worked at The Children's Hospital After Hours Care Clinics. She is married to Peter Zang, MD, also a Children’s pediatrician. Angela Zang, MD, has been involved with the Locum Tenens service since 2002 and enjoys traveling to different practices and meeting new people.

Linda Couillard, MD

Dr. Couillard has been with The Children’s Hospital Regional Healthcare Network since 1995.  She enjoys traveling to different practices and meeting new people.

Elizabeth "Anne" Wuerslin, MD

Elizabeth "Anne" Wuerslin is a BC 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, enjoys the outdoors of Colorado--skiing, hiking, and gardening--and has special interests in international volunteer work abroad. "I have really gotten to know the Rocky Mountain area and love it, after extensive coverage of practices in Colorado and Wyoming."

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 play with and help kids.  So he has become a volunteer pediatrician at Doctors Care and Rocky Mountain Youth clinics for the underserved. He teaches medical students at The Children’s Hospital Child Health Clinic.  He loves his expanded family, woodworking and bicycling, and continuing to practice pediatrics. 

If these physicians are busy, we will add physicians to fill the need whenever possible, following our careful guidelines.