Overview
(left to right) Dr. Mike Yi, Juli Bick, Elizabeth Mathison, Terri Byczkowski, Dr. Maria Britto, Janet Wimberg, Jennifer Knopf, Dave Krier
Not pictured: Amy Chima, Dee Ellingwood, Dawn Nebrig, Stacy Rechner, Anita Schambach, and Anna-Liisa Vockell
Asthma Innovation Lab, also referred to as Asthma Care Invention Clinic, is an asthma care clinic located within the Teen Health Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The Asthma Clinic is where innovative ideas, care methods, and self-management coaching techniques are created and piloted in order to improve care for patients with asthma. It is a springboard to learn more about the environment and social challenges teens with asthma face, as well as a safe place for the teens to learn more about managing their asthma as they face these challenges. In order to be part of the Asthma Innovation Lab, patients must have a primary provider at the Teen Health Center.
The Asthma Care Invention Clinic is a safe place where adolescents come to get help taking care of their asthma and other health needs. Our patients and their parents also play an important role in helping us. By partnering with them, we can:
- Explore and create new ways to help others with asthma
- Share their knowledge and experience with asthma
- Learn effective ways to reach out to other teens
That's why we often ask our patients their thoughts on some of the projects we're working on. To encourage our patients to participate in inventing new ideas and strategies, we have created a Teen Advisory Board to get feedback from adolescents in a focus group setting. Through bi-weekly meeting held onsite at Cincinnati Children's, this Advisory Board has allowed teens to be major influences in the decisions made in the hospital as we work to improve the effectiveness of clinical operations and communications in relation to our target patient population.
