Lanphear Named Chair for Children's Environmental Health
Cincinnati Children's has designated Bruce Lanphear, MD, director of the Children's Environmental Health Center, as recipient of The Sloan Chair for Children's Environmental Health. This is the first endowed chair for children's environmental health in the United States.
"Environmental factors are a major cause of childhood diseases, including asthma, mental retardation, learning disabilities, premature births and behavioral problems," says Dr. Lanphear. "But the role of the environment has, for far too long, been ignored or neglected."
Dr. Lanphear, who joined Cincinnati Children's in 1997, is one of the leading authorities on lead and lead poisoning in the United States. He directs the General and Community Pediatrics Research Center at Cincinnati Children's, and has conducted studies on environmental and residential hazards including asthma, injuries and children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
The Sloan chair was established as a permanent tribute to Charles H. Sloan Sr., Olive Louise Sloan, and Charles H. Sloan Jr. The Sloans were a prominent family from the Cincinnati area in the steel business.
U.S. News Ranks Cincinnati Children's Among Top Ten
Cincinnati Children's was named one of the 10 best pediatric hospitals in the United States, last year in U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" survey. The 13th annual survey ranked Cincinnati Children's ninth in pediatric care, an improvement over the previous year's 10th-place ranking.
Among institutions offering pediatric care, Cincinnati Children's was ranked ahead of such prestigious organizations as Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Mayo Clinic and UCLA.
Department of Pediatrics Ranked Fourth for Training Program
This survey was not the first in which Cincinnati Children's ranked among the nation's medical best. Earlier in the year, Cincinnati Children's was recognized by U.S. News in its "Best Graduate Schools" report.
U.S. News ranked the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center the fourth best pediatric program at a medical school in the United States. Cincinnati Children's was listed in the top five with other prestigious institutions including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University.
Cincinnati Children's Opens New Patient Building
Cincinnati Children's opened a new eight-story, 447,300-square-foot clinical building that consolidates inpatient and outpatient care into two connecting facilities, Location A and Location B (formerly known as the Hospital Tower). This seamless provision of clinical services enables Cincinnati Children's to make available the latest in medical technology while dramatically improving the ability to provide family-centered care.
The $70 million brick and concrete tower makes the medical center one of the nation's biggest and newest pediatric facilities. It houses cancer, cardiac, orthopaedic, neurological and psychiatric patients, using leading-edge technology including a clinical order entry system designed to boost efficiency and reduce patient-care errors. The building also features a new nurse-call system, a multi-faith chapel and improved amenities for families.
"We've been so crowded," says James M. Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Cincinnati Children's. "And the technology of health care continues to grow, so it takes more space to provide care. There is so much more research going on here now. We're taking care of children we couldn't take care of before."
Grant Funding an Integral Component of Research Foundation
Cincinnati Children's has a renowned research staff that attracts millions of dollars in research funding and private and corporate donations annually. These funds are reinvested into research supplies, equipment and salaries so our researchers have the resources to continually "raise the bar" in the pediatric health care field. We are ranked third in funding among comprehensive pediatric centers receiving National Institutes of Health research grants. Recent grants obtained include the following:
| Bezerra, J.: Clinical Center for Biliary Atresia: Etiopathogenesis and Clinical Outcome; National Institutes of Health; 09/15/02 - 05/31/07; $644,075 |
| Calhoun-Mumia, N.: Improving Hemoglobinopathy Screening Follow-up and Services for Affected Families in Cincinnati; Health Resources and Services Administration; 09/01/02 - 08/31/03; $163,486 |
| Garcia, V.: Youth Injury Prevention: An African American Initiative; Greater Cincinnati Foundation; 07/01/02 - 06/30/05; $100,000 |
| Karp, C.: Ebola Virus Immunopathogenesis and Therapy; National Institutes of Health; 09/01/02 - 08/31/04; $300,000 |
| Lanphear B.: Study of Prevalent Neurotoxicants in Children; National Institutes of Health; 09/30/02 - 09/29/06; $1,801,921 |
| Laurence, S.: Pediatric Office Booster Seat Education Program; Ohio Department of Public Safety; 07/01/02 - 06/30/03; $23,095 |
| Putnam, F.: Child Abuse Trauma Treatment Replication Center; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; 09/01/02 - 08/31/05; $1,246,359 |
| Sallee, F.: Preschool Supplement to Clonidine in ADHD; National Institutes of Health; 08/01/02 - 07/31/06; $2,130,442 |
| Strasser, J.: Heteroconjugate Vaccines Against Herpes Simplex Virus; National Institutes of Health; 09/01/02 - 08/31/03; $10,492 |
