Funding and awards to Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation have continued to rise over the past decade. This growth is essential to the investments we make each year in our employees, facilities and new technologies. With assistance from increases in grant funding for research in fiscal year 2007, we are committed to continually raising the standard of care for children.
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Fiscal Year 2007
Cincinnati Children’s offers one of the largest pediatric training programs within a single institution in the United States.
In fiscal year 2007, we trained:
• 57 junior medical students in the pediatric clerkship
• 24 senior medical students in pediatric training
• 3 senior medical students in medicine / pediatric training
• 187 residents in pediatrics, dentistry, psychology, dermatology and a variety of combined training programs
• 78 residents in surgery (includes general surgery, eye, ENT, plastic surgery, orthopaedics and urology)
• 169 clinical fellows
• 113 research postdoctoral fellows
• 4 Procter Scholars, physicians preparing for biomedical or clinical investigative careers in pediatrics
Extensive Publications
In fiscal year 2007, Cincinnati Children’s faculty published:
• 774 peer-reviewed articles
• 68 non-peer-reviewed articles
• 76 sections of books
• 3 pieces in web, CD-ROM and audio
• 7 books / reports
The Center for Simulation and Research at Cincinnati Children’s, already recognized as a world-class training center, has undergone a major expansion. The center now features expanded facilities for simulation and debriefing (including three operating rooms) and improved audiovisual capabilities.
The center serves faculty, residents, fellows, trauma and nursing staff from Cincinnati Children’s, as well as local and national health care professionals. By providing high-end technical training in a controlled setting, the center is a major contributor to the overall mission of Cincinnati Children’s to significantly reduce serious safety events.
Arnold Strauss, MD, director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, serves as the cabinet champion for the Simulation Center. “We have so many people at this institution, and it’s rare for them to see a serious safety event,” he explains. “Simulation is a way to get people exposed to serious safety eventsituations without the risk.”
Currently, there are eight simulators at the center – two adults, three children and three infants. These simulators have pulse points, dilating pupils, and can be intubated, infused and defibrillated. The debriefing rooms are equipped with leading-edge software that allows instructors to debrief and evaluate participants’ performance immediately following their simulation sessions.
Cincinnati Children’s pediatrician Lisa Simpson, MD, MPH, was named by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio as the winner of its Ohio Health Policy Researcher of the Year award for 2007. Dr. Simpson (see feature on page 6) won the award as the lead author of a report from the Commonwealth Fund titled “Reauthorizing SCHIP: Opportunities for Promoting Effective Health Coverage and High-Quality Care for Children and Adolescents.”
The report, written by a team of noted child health policy experts, presents a framework for promoting effective health coverage and achieving high quality in both the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid, the other major public program that covers low-income children.
Two researchers at Cincinnati Children’s have been selected to share a Schmidlapp Scholar Award from the Fifth Third Bank / Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Women Scholars Program. Lisa Martin, PhD, and Nicolay Chertkoff Walz, PhD, will split the $100,000 award, which is given annually to a female faculty member at Cincinnati Children’s.
Dr. Martin, a researcher in the Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics and in the Division of Human Genetics, is a genetic epidemiologist whose research focuses on childhood obesity. Dr. Walz, a researcher in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, is interested in studying traumatic brain injury in children. They are the 12th and 13th scholars to receive the award since its inception in 1997.
