Education and Training

Pediatric Scientist Development Program

This NICHD-funded program provides intensive training to prepare entry-level faculty for research careers in academic pediatrics.

Year	Recipients
2017	7
2016	6

T-32 Fellowships

The NIH provides these institutional grants to support research training opportunities at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels. Cincinnati Children's received funding for these T32 programs in FY2017:

Division	PI Name	Reference Award #	Dates
Allergy	Co-PI: David I. Bernstein, MD and Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD	T32 AI060515	9/1/04 to 8/31/19
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology	Kevin Hommel, PhD (SPR109310/SPR117516)	T32 HD068223	5/1/12 to 4/30/22
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology	Scott Powers, PhD, ABPP (SPR110774)	T32 DK063929	7/1/03 to 6/30/18
Clinical Pharmacology	Alexander Vinks, PharmD, PhD, FCP (SPR108033/SPR116141)	T32 HD069054	5/1/11 to 4/30/21
Critical Care	Co-PI: Alex Lentsch, PhD, and Hector Wong, MD	T32 GM008478	7/1/93 to 6/30/18
Gastroenterology	Lee Denson, MD (SPR114118/SPR106193)	T32 DK007727	1/1/95 to 6/30/20
General Pediatrics	Kristen Copeland, MD (SPR108998/SPR116147)	T32 HP10027	7/1/11 to 6/30/21
Immunology	David A. Hildeman, PhD (SPR116382)	T32 AI118697	7/1/16 to 6/30/21
Molecular Cardiovascular Biology	Jeffery Molkentin, PhD (SPR113520)	T32 HL125204	12/1/14 to 11/30/19
Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology	Jeffery Whitsett, MD (SPR111862)	T32 HL007752	7/15/94 to 6/30/19
Nephrology	Prasad Devarajan, MD (SPR112492)	T32 DK007695	7/15/92 to 6/30/19
Neurology	Charles Vorhees, PhD (SPR109286)	T32 ES007051	7/1/77 to 6/30/17
Rheumatology	Alexei A. Grom, MD (SPR115798)	T32 AR069512	5/1/16 to 4/30/21

Arnold W. Strauss Fellow Award

The Arnold W. Strauss Fellow Award is a one-year $10,000 funding opportunity instituted in 2014 in honor of Dr. Strauss' tireless advocacy of higher education at Cincinnati Children's.

Clinical/Research Fellow	Name	Division	Mentor	Project
Clinical	Tarek Alsaied, MD	Cardiology	Michael Taylor, MD, PhD	Cardiac fibrosis effect on exercise capacity and cardiac function in patients with Sickle Cell Disease
Clinical	Maria Barnes-Davis, MD, PhD	Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine	Scott Holland, PhD and Stephanie Merhar, MD, MS	Multimodal neuroimaging of language networks in childhood: Impact of prematurity
Research	Richard Brokamp, PhD	Epidemiology	Patrick Ryan, PhD, MS	Assessing exposure to air pollution across time and space
Research	Shadi Khademi, MD, PhD	Anesthesia	Steve Danzer, PhD	Mechanisms mediating seizure in a PTEN KO model of epilepsy
Research	Heather McCauley, PhD	Developmental Biology	Jim Wells, PhD	Enteroendocrine cells, nutrients and metabolic disease
Research	Hadas Nahman-Averbuch, PhD	Anesthesia/Pain Medicine	Robert Coghill, PhD	Disrupted pain modulation in adolescents with migraines
Clinical	Anna Peters, MD, PhD	Gastroenterology	Jorge Bezerra, MD	Control of cholangiocyte proliferation by innate lymphoid cells
Clinical	Francis Real, MD	General & Community Pediatrics	Melissa Klein, MD, MEd and Andrew Beck, MD, MPH	IMPACT Asthma: Effect of a caregiver education bundle on asthma control

Research Fellows

Department Name	# of Fellows
Allergy and Immunology	9
Anesthesiology	5
Asthma Research	1
Biostatistics and Epidemiology	1
Center for Autoimmune Genetics and Etiology	3
Cardiology	2
Cardiothoracic Surgery	1
Chronobiology	2
Clinical Pharmacology	3
Developmental Biology	16
Endocrinology	3
Experimental Hematology	23
Fetal Therapy	1
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition	12
General and Community Pediatrics	1
Hematology	3
Human Genetics	7
Imaging Research	1
Immunobiology	11
Infectious Diseases	4
Molecular Cardiovascular Biology	19
Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology	6
Neurology	5
Neurosurgery	1
Oncology	5
Ophthalmology	4
Pathology	3
Patient Services	2
Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery	3
Pulmonary Medicine	10
Reproductive Sciences	8
Sports Medicine	2
Total	177

Clinical Fellows

Department Name	# of Fellows	Department Name	# of Fellows
Adolescent Medicine	7	Neonatology	15
+Transition Medicine		+ Academic Research in Neonatology	1
Allergy/Immunology	6	Nephrology	9
Anesthesia	10	+ Academic Research in Nephrology and Hypertension	1
+ ABA Alternate Pathway		+ Acute Care Nephrology and Dialysis	1
+ Advanced Fellowship in Quality Improvement & Safety	1	Neurology
+ Advanced Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship in Education		+ Pediatric Epilepsy	3
+ International Pediatric Anesthesiology	2	+ Headache Medicine	1
+ Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring		+ Neonatal Neuro
+ Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia		Neurosurgery	1
Cardiology	14	Ophthalmology	1
+ Adult & Adolescent Congenital Heart Disease	1	Orthopaedics	3
+ Cardiac Electrophysiology		+ Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery
+ Cardiac Imaging	2	Otolaryngology	6
+ Cardiac Intensive Care		Pain Medicine	2
+ Fetal Cardiology		Pathology	2
+ Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy and Transplantation	2	Plastic Surgery	1
+ Interventional Cardiac Cath	1	Psychiatry	7
+ Preventive Cardiology	2	Psychology	20
Child Abuse	1	Pulmonary	9
Congenital Cardiac Surgery	1	+ Genetic Pulmonary Disease	1
Critical Care	12	Radiology	8
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics	3	+ Body MRI
Emergency Medicine	13	+ Interventional Radiology	1
Endocrinology	8	+ Musculoskeletal Imaging	1
Gastroenterology	12	+ Pediatric Neuroradiology	2
+ Pediatric Advanced Nutrition	1	Rehabilitation Medicine	4
+ Pediatric Transplant Hepatology	1	Rheumatology	6
Division of General Pediatrics		Sleep Disorder Medicine	2
+ Pediatric Master Educator	1	Sports Medicine	2
+ Pediatric Primary Care Research	3	Surgery	2
Genetics, Medical and Genomics	1	+ Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology	2
+ Clinical Biochemical Genetics		+ Colorectal Surgery
+ Clinical Cytogenetics	1	+ ECMO
+ Clinical Molecular Genetics	3	+ Fetal Surgery	1
Hematology/Oncology	14	+ Pediatric International Surgical Fellow	1
+ Bone Marrow Transplant	1	+ Trauma Surgery	1
+ Clinical Immunodeficiency	1	+ Vascular Anomalies	1
+ Neuro-Oncology		Urology	2
+ Sickle Cell Disease	1	+ International Pediatric Urology Fellow	3
Hospice and Palliative Medicine	2
Hospital Medicine	6
Infectious Disease	6
Total Clinical Fellows			263

Graduate Programs

Program	Number of students
Biomedical Informatics - PhD students	8
Biomedical Informatics - Graduate Certificate	14
Immunology - PhD students	34
Immunology - MS students	5
Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	55
Molecular and Developmental Biology - MS students	7
Molecular and Developmental Biology - PhD students	50

Residents

Division	Number of Residents
Pediatrics	121
Medicine/Pediatrics	28
Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R)	4
Dental	12
Psychology	5
Psychiatry/Child Psychiatry/Pediatrics	14
Human Genetics/Pediatrics	8
Neuro/Pediatrics	23
Dermatology	10 UC Dermatology/14 Cincinnati Children's Pediatric Resident Rotators
Anesthesia	14 Rotating
Surgery (Includes General Surgery, Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology, Cardiothoracic, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Plastic, Orthopedic and Urology)	146 Rotating
Radiology	54 Rotating

Summer Students

Name	Number
High School Interns	33
+ Biomedical Research Internship for Minority Students (BRIMS)	16
+ High School Senior Summer Internship Program	14
+ Summer for Sickle Cell Science Program	3
Undergraduate Students	164
+ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship	130
Medical Students	19
+ Summer Medical Student Respiratory Research Fellowship	13

2017 Research Annual ReportEducation and Training