Other Interests

Our lab takes part in a number of additional projects and programs, both at Cincinnati Children’s and in the surrounding area. Learn more about our efforts in research, education and public engagement initiatives.

INNOVATIONS in Community Research and Program Evaluation at Cincinnati Children's offers a wide range of services to all levels of organizations and agencies. We provide these organizations with program evaluation services and consultation, technical assistance and web-based data systems, grant writing assistance, and strategic planning and quality improvement consultation. Dr. Crosby serves as co-director of INNOVATIONS.

Through the Community Engagement Core of the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at Cincinnati Children’s, we are implementing education and training initiatives, including:

  • Training in community-engaged research for academic health investigators, medical students and residents, graduate students and community members
  • Integration of community and those with lived experience into the research process
  • Promoting community-engaged research
  • Implementation of the Research Education for Action, Collaboration and Health (REACH) program, to build organizational and community capacity that strengthens collaborative health research and outcomes

Dr. Crosby is the lead of the Community Engagement Core.

Cincinnati Children's has a long history of training psychologists at the post-doctoral level and is one of the nation's largest pediatric / child psychology fellowship training programs. Each year, we admit seven to eight new fellows in specialized areas of training. The fellowships last for one to two years. We also have a community-engaged research fellowship. Learn more about our Behavioral Medicine / Psychology Fellowship Program.

The Center for Adherence and Self-Management at Cincinnati Children’s addresses the problems surrounding adherence to medical treatment and the impact on clinical care and research. Through research, clinical care and training programs, the center addresses areas of national significance and contributes to the mission of Cincinnati Children’s by facilitating intradisciplinary collaboration and quality improvement.

The Center for Innovation in Chronic Disease Care at Cincinnati Children's was created to improve the outcomes for children and adolescents with chronic illnesses by accelerating the development of effective care delivery methods. With this goal in mind, we bring together scientists and physicians from eight academic divisions and six disciplines to foster change and facilitate experimentation. Dr. Crosby is a faculty member in the center.

The Cincinnati Children's Headache Center was designed to develop and expand research into childhood headache disorders by examining new treatment options, improving characterization of childhood headache and response patterns, and understanding the genetic pathophysiology of childhood headaches. Dr. Crosby is the center’s lead psychologist.