Overview
The over-riding goal of the Department of Radiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is to be a national leader in pediatric imaging as it pertains to clinical services, research, and education. It could be argued that the department has come close to, or has already achieved, that goal in many ways. During the last financial year, the Department of Radiology performed and interpreted over 170,000 clinical imaging examinations making it one of, if not the largest, pediatric imaging department in North America. The Department has approximately thirty clinical radiologists again making it perhaps the largest pediatric imaging department in the United States. It is one of the few departments nationally that provides highly subspecialized expertise within the different imaging modalities and organ systems within pediatric imaging. Concerning research, the Imaging Research Center (IRC) is the research arm of the Department of Radiology and works in conjunction with the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation. The IRC continues to increase its grant support and number of publications annually and has become the model to be emulated by other pediatric imaging institutions. Concerning education, last year the Department of Radiology trained 8 fellows in pediatric radiology (There were less than 30 nationally).
