Thomas F. Boat, MD
Title
Executive Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Former BK Rachford Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Former Director, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
Appointment
Professor of Pediatrics
Email
thomas.boat@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-4588
Fax
513-636-1657
Bio
Thomas F. Boat, MD, is the former director of The Children's Hospital Research Foundation and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. He was also physician-in-chief and continues as a member of the board of trustees of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Dr. Boat stepped down as the Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and the Director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation at the end of April 2007, but he remains on staff at Cincinnati Children's and the College of Medicine faculty as a professor of pediatrics.
A pediatric pulmonologist by training, Dr. Boat worked early in his career to define the pathophysiology of airway dysfunction and more effective therapies for chronic lung diseases of childhood, such as cystic fibrosis. More recently he has worked at local and national levels to improve subspecialty training and clinical care in pediatrics.
Dr. Boat joined Cincinnati Children's in 1993, after serving as chairman of the department of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Previously, he was co-director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland.
U.S. News & World Report recently ranked the Department of Pediatrics among the top four pediatric programs at medical schools in the United States. When Dr. Boat joined Cincinnati Children's, the department of pediatrics included 144 faculty, with total external grant funding of less than $20 million. Today, the department includes more than 300 full- and part-time faculty. Total sponsored program awards now exceed $100 million. In addition, more than a dozen new division chiefs have been appointed since 1993, and nearly a dozen new divisions or programs have been created. He has also fostered patient care efforts that have resulted in rapid growth of clinical programs and measurable improvements in the quality of child health care and its delivery.
Dr. Boat is a member of the Institute of Medicine and has chaired several of their committees. He has served as a member and chair of the Biochemistry II Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, and as a council member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. He chairs the Research Development Program Advisory Committee for the National Cystic Fibrosis Association, and is a member of their Medical Advisory Committee. He has been chair of the American Board of Pediatrics and president of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs. Dr. Boat is a past president of the American Pediatric Society, and is a recipient of the St. Geme Award from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations.
Credentials
MD: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1966
Residency: Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN
Fellowship: Pediatric Pulmonology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Certification: Pediatrics, 1971; Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, 1995.
Awards and Honors
Recipient of the St. Geme Award from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations.
Recipient of the Daniel Drake Medal from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Recipient of the Global Ronald McDonald House Charities Award of Excellence.
Research
- Tracheobronchial secretions
- Mucous glycoprotein biosynthesis, structure
- Pathophysiology of lung disease in cystic fibrosis
- Effect of infection on developing airways
Publications, Most Recent
Boat TF, Chao SM, O'Neill PH. From waste to value in health care.JAMA 2008;299(5):568-71.
Boat TF. The Future of Pediatric Research. Supplement to The Journal of Pediatrics: The Future of Pediatrics: A Festschrift for M. Douglas Jones, Jr, MD. J Pediatr. 2007;151:S21-7.
Balistreri WF, Jobe A, Boat TF. Pediatric Subspeciality Training Fellowships at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.J Pediatr 2005;147:277-8.
Cripe TP, Thomson B, Boat TF, Williams DA. Promoting Translational Research in Academic Health Centers: Navigating the Roadmap.Acad Med 2005;80:1012-8.
Motley WW, Augsburger JJ, Hutchins RK, Schneider S, Boat TF. Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Endogenous Endophthalmitis with Choroidal Abscess in a Patient with Cystic Fibrosis. Retina 2005;25:202-7.
Professional Organization Memberships
Special Interests
Dr. Boat has a special interest in cystic fibrosis and other pulmonary disorders.
Related Areas
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