Jane Messemer, MD

Dr. Courson is a pediatrician and associate program director, ambulatory medicine at Akron Children’s. She’s been practicing since 2000. She earned her medical degree from Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio and completed a residency in pediatrics at Akron Children’s. Dr. Courson is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as a member of the Academic Pediatrics Association. She’s also a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Northeast Ohio Medical University and an adjunct clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.

CLINICAL INTERESTS: Adjustment to chronic illness, adherence, pediatric hematology/ oncology, pediatric palliative care.

Adrienne is a physician assistant who joined the Akron Children's burn center in 2022. She completed her undergraduate studies at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio and her physician assistant degree at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. She's certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants and is a member of the American Burn Association, American Academy of Physician Assistants and the Ohio Association of Physician Assistants.