Faculty Highlights

Recent Faculty Accomplishments

We're proud of our research accomplishments.

2007

  • Robert A. Kowatch, MD, leads the largest study of its kind on mood stabilizers, demonstrating that divalproex sodium (Depakote") can significantly improve the symptoms of bipolar I disorder in children and adolescents.
  • Arnold Strauss, MD, chair of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, and Alan Jobe, MD, PhD, director of perinatal biology at Cincinnati Children's, are both elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Election to the IOM is one of the most prestigious honors in medicine.
  • Robert B. Hinton, Jr., MD, and colleagues discover that Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), a severe cardiovascular malformation that is difficult to treat and often lethal, is caused primarily by genetic factors.
  • Tanya Froehlich, MD, and colleagues find that contrary to public perception, children are underdiagnosed and undertreated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Moreover, they found that more than half of the approximately 2.4 million children who meet ADHD diagnostic criteria have not been diagnosed and about two-thirds are not receiving consistent treatment.
  • Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD, receives the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics at the 2007 annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Toronto. Established in 1939, the award is considered the most prestigious award in pediatric research.
  • Arnold Strauss, MD, is named chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, chief medical officer of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation. He is the seventh B.K. Rachford Memorial Chair in Pediatrics.
  • Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology,is invited to serve on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Council of the National Institutes of Health. The NIAID council advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services, as well as the assistant secretary, the director of the NIH and the director of the NIAID, on matters relating to the conduct and support of research, training and health information dissemination.
  • Jessica Kahn, MD, MPH, an adolescent medicine specialist, is selected to receive a two-year, $100,000 Schmidlapp Scholar Award from the Fifth Third Bank / Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Women Scholars Program. With the funding Dr. Kahn plans to expand her research into the impact of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine on adolescent girls and young adult women.

2006

  • Jorge Bezerra, MD, and colleagues develop the first gene chip to use in the early diagnosis of at least five hereditary liver diseases. The chip, termed the "jaundice chip," is nearly 100 percent effective in the detection of the most common mutations in children with inherited causes of jaundice.
  • Thomas Boat, MD, is the 2006 recipient of the Ronald McDonald House Charities Award of Excellence. He was honored for his contributions to the care of children with cystic fibrosis and for his role as an advocate for better child health care through research and improvement of health care delivery systems.
  • Bruce Lanphear, MD, and colleagues find that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke and childhood exposure to lead account for about one-third of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) cases among children in the United States.
  • Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD, and colleagues discover the first gene associated with eosinophilic esophagitis, one of a number of eosinophil-related diseases in which the body produces abnormally large amounts of white blood cells that can lead to allergy related illnesses.
  • David Bernstein, MD, and Richard Ward, PhD, develop a vaccine for rotavirus, a leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children throughout the world.

2005

  • Ton deGrauw, MD, PhD, and Kim Cecil, PhD, first identify creatine transporter deficiency, which can explain developmental delay in some male children.
  • Jeffrey Robbins, PhD, is honored with the 2005 Research Achievement Award by the American Heart Association for his seminal achievements in cardiovascular research.
  • Christopher Baum, MD, receives the Sir Hans Krebs Award for a study published in Science showing potential consequences of gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells. The findings have major implications for diagnostic gene marking and the discovery of genes regulating stem cell turnover.
  • Christof von Kalle, MD, and Christopher Baum, MD, receive the Langen Science Award 2005 by the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute for achievements in the field of gene therapy.
  • Cynthia Molloy, MD, is selected to receive a two-year, $100,000 Schmidlapp Scholar Award from the Fifth Third Bank / Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Women Scholars Program. With the award, Dr. Molloy plans to expand her research into the causes of autism.