Research Horizons at Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
Explore highlights of the exciting research happening at Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation with Research Horizons. Each issue features recent studies published by Cincinnati Children's investigators. By combining cutting-edge research and education with the best in pediatric care, we are striving to improve the lives of children and families everywhere.
This issue features the following news briefs:
In addition, you will find the following feature stories that highlight some of our many world-class researchers:
Since 1993, Dr. Boat has led the Research Foundation through an incredible period of growth. The number of faculty has increased from 145 to over 400 under his leadership and the amount of funded research during his tenure has risen from under $20 million to more than $125 million a year, a number that ranks Cincinnati Children's second in NIH funding for children's hospitals across the country. [more]
On May 1, Arnold Strauss, MD, officially took over as chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, chief medical officer of Cincinnati Children's and director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation. He is the seventh B.K. Rachford Memorial Chair in Pediatrics and succeeds Thomas Boat, MD, who has served in that position since 1993. [more]
Female athletes are two to six times more likely to sustain an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury than males. Now, identifying teenage female athletes at greatest risk of an ACL injury could become easier, according to a new study from Sports Medicine at Cincinnati Children's. Once identified, these young women can undergo targeted neuromuscular training to lessen the likelihood of injury. [more]
"There really isn't any underlying educational theory yet about how to teach health," says David Schonfeld, MD, director of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's. "It's very different from teaching math and reading." Dr. Schonfeld should know. He has spent the past 20 years researching children's understanding of and adjustment to serious illness and death. [more]
Almost all school-aged children get infected with strep throat at some point in their lives. For some children with Tourette syndrome (TS), strep throat may be even more likely and more troublesome, according to preliminary results from two multicenter studies. [more]
For the past several years, US hospitals have been coping with a serious manpower shortage in the field of anesthesiology. Children's hospitals have been particularly affected by this shortage as growth in the demand for pediatric surgical services has continued to expand. To address this shortage at Cincinnati Children's, members of the Department of Anesthesia instituted a program to use nurse practitioners for preoperative evaluation and shift anesthesiologists from the preanesthesia clinic to the operating room (OR). [more]
