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Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

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    Faculty

    Derek D. Fletcher, MD

    Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

    Phone: 513-636-3000

    Fax: 513-636-5859

    Email: derek.fletcher@cchmc.org

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    Specialties

    Medically fragile children
     

    Biography

    After graduating from the US Air Force Academy, Derek D. Fletcher, MD, served as an Air Force officer for seven years and attained the rank of Captain.  He then entered medical school in 1998.  In 2002, Dr. Fletcher graduated in the top 20% of his medical school class and was then accepted into the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center General Pediatrics program in 2002, and graduated in 2005.  Dr. Fletcher then joined the Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs, founded by Ron Levin, MD, where he provides comprehensive, family-centered primary care for medically fragile children.

    Education and Training

    MD: Wright State University SOM, Dayton, OH, 1998-2002.

    Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati OH, 2002-2005.

    Certification: Pediatrics, 2005.

    Publications

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    David E. Hall, MD
    Director, Center for Children with Special Needs

    513-636-3000

    David E. Hall, MD

    Director, Center for Children with Special Needs

    Director, Diagnostic Referral Center

    Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

    Phone: 513-636-3000

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    Specialties

    The treatment of children with complex chronic disease.

    Biography

    David Hall, MD is a clinical professor of pediatrics and the director of the Diagnostic Referral Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

    In addition, he is the director of the Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs, which  is a program that provides a medical home care for patients with medically complex chronic disease.  

    He is a member of the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence.

    Prior to coming to Cincinnati, Dr. Hall was the medical director of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, a 250 bed tertiary care children’s hospital, where he was involved in many quality and process improvement initiatives and served as a pediatric hospitalist.

    Dr. Hall has been elected to “Best Doctors in America” by his peers for 10 consecutive years.

    Education and Training

    MD: University of Chicago School of Medicine.

    Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Chief Resident, Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital.

    Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University, Robert  Wood Johnson Fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics.

    Publications

    View PubMed Publications.

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    Ronald S. Levin, MD
    Director, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-636-3000

    ron.levin@cchmc.org

    Ronald S. Levin, MD

    Director, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

    Phone: 513-636-3000

    Email: ron.levin@cchmc.org

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    Specialties

    Children with chronic illness and medically fragile children with special needs

    Education and Training

    MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1973.

    Residency: University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1976.

    Publications

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    Nursing

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    Angela Babanskyj, RN
    Registered Nurse, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-803-0468

    angela.babanskyj@cchmc.org

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    Emily K. Boone, CNP
    Nurse Practitioner, Special Needs Clinic

    513-636-3000

    emily.boone@cchmc.org

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    Emily K. Boone, CNP

    Nurse Practitioner, Special Needs Clinic

    University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

    Phone: 513-636-3000

    Email: emily.boone@cchmc.org

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    Education and Training

    BSN: Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 2001.

    MSN: Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 2006.

    Post Master’s Certificate: Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 2010.


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    Wendy A. Chouteau, RN, CNP
    Advanced Practice Nurse, Center for Infants & Children with Special Needs

    513-636-6965

    wendy.chouteau@cchmc.org

    Wendy A. Chouteau, RN, CNP

    Advanced Practice Nurse, Center for Infants & Children with Special Needs

    University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

    Phone: 513-636-6965

    Fax: 513-636-5859

    Email: wendy.chouteau@cchmc.org

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    Education and Training

    RN: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1985.

    MSN: Northern Kentucky University, 2010.

    Certifications: ANCC Certified Family Nurse Practitioner.

    Publications

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    Shauna Freiberger, RN
    Registered Nurse, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-636-4466

    shauna.freiberger@cchmc.org


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    Lisa Hurd, RN
    Registered Nurse. Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-803-2131

    lisa.hurd@cchmc.org

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    Carrie N. Pleiman, RN
    Registered Nurse, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-803-2137

    carrie.pleiman@cchmc.org


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    Louise Smith, RN
    Registered Nurse, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    louise.smith@cchmc.org

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    Tamina White, RN
    Registered Nurse, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-636-4466

    tamina.white@cchmc.org


    Social Work

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    Suzan DeCicca, LISW
    Social Worker, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-636-5473

    suzan.decicca@cchmc.org

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    Margaret Sicking, LISW
    Social Worker, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-636-9894

    molly.sicking@cchmc.org


    Staff

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    Kathryn Lyons
    Administrative Assistant, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-636-1752

    kathryn.lyons@cchmc.org

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    Della Smith-Sokol
    Customer Service Representative, Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

    513-636-2218

    della.smith-sokol@cchmc.org