Dr. Tom Erskine, M.D., FAAP

Dr. Erskine has been caring for children since 1999. Dr. Erskine was born in Scotland and came to the United States when he was 9 years old. He grew up in here in the valley and finished high school at Moon Valley High School. After high school he served four years in the United States Marine Corps. After obtaining his Bachelor of Science Degree from Arizona State University in 1993, he attended Ross University School of Medicine graduating in 1999. He completed his internship in family practice at Creighton University School of Medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska in 2000. He would move on to spend 3 years as a resident at Texas A& M University’s Scott & White Memorial Hospital including the third year as chief resident. He then completed 3 more years of fellowship at the University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital in their Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program. He came to St. Joseph’s Hospital in 2006 and worked in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit (PICU) and was an attending there for four and a half years. During this time he started working at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in the newly opened PICU (as they were short staffed when opened) and in 2010 moved to Scottsdale Shea hospital as an attending full time to open their new PICU. In 2011, Dr. Erskine was part of the Medical Hands for Healing Mission in Rivas, Nicaragua. They completed over fifty surgery cases in five days. In 2012, he moved over to Banner Thunderbird Medical Center where he continues to practice today. He also currently works at Maricopa Integrated Health Systems in the PICU and pediatric burn unit(as a locums tenens) and is the Pediatric ER physician for North Valley Emergency Specialists (also as a locums tenens).

Dr. Erskine has been on the forefront of research during his career. In 2003-05, with guidance from Dr. John Kuluz, he did cell culture studies using leukocytes as inflammatory markers in traumatic injury to cultured astrocytes exposed to antiepileptic drugs. In 2004-06, he perfected surgical techniques with Dr. Gwenn McLaughlin, that involved placing a Doppler ultrasound flow-probe on the renal artery of rats. The flow-probe is then used to measure renal artery blood flow during chronic immunosuppressant exposure before and after potential reversal agents are given.

Dr. Erskine has maintained an active teaching role participating in lecture series at Scottsdale Shea and nursing lecture series in the PICU at Scottsdale Shea. He also was the PICU Curriculum Coordinator for the residency program at St. Joseph’s Hospital their last four and half years as a program. Dr. Erskine also participated in Consensus Statement on Brain Death Determination Arizona Pediatric ICU Consortium held at University of Arizona Diamond Children’s hospital in 2013.

In 2016, Dr. Erskine formed his own primary care pediatric practice called Maian Pediatrics.

He lives in Phoenix with his wife, a clinical lead PICU nurse at a local hospital, and with his son and daughter. He spends his free time volunteering at his children’s school to include participating in student education, providing first aid lecture help, as well as other activities. He also enjoys gardening in his backyard, and occasionally playing golf.