Dr. Babcock Cimpello is a Board Certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician with over 10 years of experience caring for acutely ill and injured children.  She was a member of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester for nine years prior to joining Cincinnati Children's in the summer of 2009.

She has an extensive academic portfolio that includes numerous clinical, teaching, administrative and research pursuits. Her true scholarly passion is to make a difference in the outcome of children who sustain mild traumatic brain injuries. 

Despite traumatic brain injuries being the leading cause of death and disability for children, research in this field has been insufficient as compared to its public health importance. Cimpello is interested in uncovering novel serum markers and radiographic markers to predict the outcomes of children after sustaining a traumatic brain injury. Cimpello is currently a University of Cincinnati Clinical Translational Science Research Scholar working on a project to better define axonal injury in children with mild traumatic brain injury through a combination of diffusion tensor imaging, proteomics and neurocognitive assessments.