2019 Research Annual Report
Education and Training

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
2019 5
2018 5

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 FY2019:

Division PI Name Reference Award # Dates
Allergy Co-PI: David I. Bernstein, MD, MA and Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD T32 AI060515 9/1/04 to 8/31/19
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology Kevin Hommel, PhD T32 HD068223 5/1/12 to 4/30/22
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology Co-PI: Scott Powers, PhD, ABPP, FAHS and Meg Zeller, PhD T32 DK063929 7/1/03 to 6/30/23
Clinical Pharmacology Alexander Vinks, PharmD, PhD, FCP T32 HD069054 5/1/11 to 4/30/21
Gastroenterology Lee Denson, MD T32 DK007727 1/1/95 to 6/30/20
Immunology David A. Hildeman, PhD T32 AI118697 7/1/16 to 6/30/21
Molecular Cardiovascular Biology Jeffery Molkentin, PhD T32 HL125204 12/1/14 to 11/30/19
Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology Jeffery Whitsett, MD T32 HL007752 7/15/94 to 6/30/20
Nephrology Prasad Devarajan, MD T32 DK007695 7/15/92 to 6/30/24
Neurology Charles Vorhees, PhD T32 ES007051 7/1/77 to 6/30/20
Rheumatology Alexei A. Grom, MD 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.

Name Division Mentor Project
Rachel Bensman, MD Emergency Medicine Michele Eckerle, MD, MPH Lactate clearance in Malawian children receiving protocolized therapy for severe febrile illness
Alisha George, MD, MPH Pulmonary Medicine Raouf Amin, MD Biologic Drivers of Early Childhood Wheezing in Malawi
Rebecca Hjorten Kohlberg, MD Nephrology &
Hypertension
Brian Gebelein, PhD Modeling APOL1 Disease in Drosophila Melanogaster
Ahlee Kim, MD Endocrinology Takahisa Nakamura,
PhD, MA, Lawrence
Dolan, MD, Amy Shah,
MD, MS
The Role of Exosomes in the Improvement of Insulin Sensitivity in Obese Adolescents Following Bariatric Surgery
Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH Gastro, Hepatology & Nutrition John Bucuvalas, MD,
James Heubi, MD, Andrew Beck, MD, MPH
Neighborhood Variation in Medication Adherence
Emily Eshleman, PhD Immunobiology Theresa Alenghat, VMD, PhD Epithelial antigen presentation in regulation of the host-microbiota relationship
Luis Hortells Garcia, PhD Molecular Cardiovascular Biology Katherine Yutzey, PhD Cardiac fibroblast characterization during postnatal heart maturation
Jeremy Kinder, PhD Infectious Diseases Sing Sing Way, MD, PhD Uncovering how mothers immunologically remember their offspring

Research Fellows

Department Name # of Fellows
Allergy and Immunology 6
Anesthesiology 1
Biomedical Informatics
1
Biostatistics and Epidemiology 1
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology 3
Center for Autoimmune Genetics and Etiology 4
Cardiology 1
Cardiothoracic Surgery 1
Chronobiology 1
Clinical Pharmacology 1
Developmental Biology 19
Endocrinology 3
Experimental Hematology 25
Fetal Therapy 1
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition 8
General and Community Pediatrics 1
Hematology 1
Human Genetics 4
Imaging Research 2
Immunobiology 17
Infectious Diseases 7
Molecular Cardiovascular Biology 15
Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology 10
Neurosurgery 1
Oncology 5
Ophthalmology 2
Orthopaedics 1
Pathology 2
Patient Services 1
Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery 5
Plastic Surgery 1
Psychiatry 1
Pulmonary Medicine 12
Rehabilitation Medicine 1
Reproductive Sciences 8
Sports Medicine 4
Total 177

Clinical Fellows

Department Name # Department Name #
Adolescent Medicine 2 Hospital Medicine 8
+ Transition Medicine Infectious Disease 4
Anesthesia 10 Medical Simulation 1
+ ABA Alternate Pathway Neonatology 14
+ Advanced Fellowship in Quality Improvement & Safety + Academic Research in Neonatology
+ Advanced Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship in Education Nephrology 7
+International Pediatric Anesthesiology + Academic Research in Nephrology & Hypertension 1
+ Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring + Acute Care Nephrology & Dialysis 1
+Neuroanesthesia, Pediatric 2 Neurology
+ Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia 1 + EEG 1
Cardiology 14 + Pediatric Epilepsy 1
+ Adult & Adolescent Congenital Heart Disease 1 + Headache Medicine
+ Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation 2 + Neonatal Neurology
+ Cardiac Electrophysiology 1 + Neurocritical Care, Pediatric 1
+ Cardiac Imaging 2 Neurosurgery 1
+ Cardiac Intensive Care 1 + International Pediatric Neurosurgery 1
+ Fetal Cardiology Ophthalmology 1
+ Interventional Cardiac Cath 1 Orthopaedics 3
+ Preventive Cardiology 1 + Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery 1
Child Abuse 1 Otolaryngology 6
Congenital Cardiac Surgery 1 Pain Medicine 1
Critical Care 13 Pathology 1
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics 3 Plastic Surgery 1
Emergency Medicine 13 Psychiatry 5
Endocrinology 10 Psychology 24
Gastroenterology 12 Pulmonary 9
+ Motility Disorders Radiology 7
+ Pediatric Advanced Nutrition + Body MRI 2
+ Pediatric Transplant Hepatology 1 + Interventional Radiology
Division of General Pediatrics + Musculoskeletal Imaging
+ Pediatric Master Educator + Pediatric Neuroradiology 1
+ Pediatric Primary Care Research 3 Rehabilitation Medicine 4
Genetics, Medical & Genomics 1 Rheumatology 6
+ Clinical Biochemical Genetics Sleep Disorder Medicine 2
+ Clinical Cytogenetics 1 Sports Medicine 2
+ Clinical Laboratory & Genomics 3 Surgery 2
+ Clinical Molecular Genetics + Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology 2
Hematology/Oncology 15 + Colorectal Surgery 1
+ Academic Research in Pediatric Hem/Onc 1 + ECMO
+ Bone Marrow Transplant 1 + Fetal Surgery 2
+ Clinical Immunodeficiency 1 + Trauma Surgery 2
+ Neuro-Oncology 1 + Vascular Anomalies 1
+ Precision Cancer Therapeutics,
Clinical Pharmacology & Predictive Medicine
1 Urology 2
+ Sickle Cell Disease + International Pediatric Urology Fellow 2
Total 258

Graduate Programs

Program Number of students
Biomedical Informatics - PhD students 17
Biomedical Informatics - Graduate Certificate 20
Immunology - PhD students 33
Immunology - MS students 12
Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) 64
Biomedical Research Technologies - MS students 11
Molecular and Developmental Biology - PhD students 54

Residents

Division Number of Residents
Pediatrics 121
Medicine/Pediatrics 28
Rehabilitation Medicine 4
Psychology 5
Psychiatry/Child Psychiatry/Pediatrics 15
Human Genetics/Pediatrics 6
Neuro/Pediatrics 24
Dental 12
Dermatology 10 UC Dermatology/4 Cincinnati Children's Pediatric Resident Rotators
Anesthesia 17 Rotating
Surgery (Includes General Surgery, Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology, Cardiothoracic, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Plastic, Orthopedic and Urology) 153 Rotating
Radiology 33 Rotating

Summer Students

Name Number
High School Interns
+ Biomedical Research Internship for Minority Students (BRIMS) 15
+ High School Senior Summer Internship Program 16
Undergraduate Students 169
+ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 135
Medical Students 10
+ Summer Medical Student Respiratory Research Fellowship 13
+ Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP) 12