Research Faculty

Lynn Babcock, MD, MS, is involved in local and national pediatric emergency medicine research for over 10 years. Her primary focus is centered on the full spectrum of care related to traumatic injuries with a significant focus on traumatic brain injuries. Due to this research, she currently holds a KL2 Mentored Career Development Award in clinical and translational research from the University of Cincinnati Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training.

513-803-2956 lynn.babcock@cchmc.org

Seema R. Bhatt, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Seema R. Bhatt, MD, is pursuing research interests in medical education.

513-803-2980 seema.bhatt@cchmc.org

Timothy M. Brenkert, MD

513-803-2570 timothy.brenkert@cchmc.org

Terri Byczkowski, MBA, PhD

Terri Byczkowski, MBA, PhD, is interested in the area of measuring and improving patient and family experiences of care and determining how the delivery of patient- and family-centered care ultimately affect health outcomes. She is currently focused on developing a measure of patient and family-centered care for pediatric emergency medicine.

513-636-7966 terri.byczkowski@cchmc.org

Holly Depinet, MD, MPH

Holly Depinet, MD, MPH, has current research interests that include issues related to clinical decision support tools, appendicitis and sepsis.

513-636-4254 holly.brodzinski@cchmc.org

Judith W. Dexheimer, PhD

Judith W. Dexheimer, PhD, is a biomedical informatics researcher with an interest in clinical decision support systems with a goal of improving clinical care and patient outcomes. Her research focuses on decision support in the emergency department with an interest in the effectiveness and efficacy of alerts and reminders throughout the hospital.

513-636-7966 judith.dexheimer@cchmc.org

Timothy Dribin, MD

Timothy Dribin, MD's, goal is to develop and lead an independently funded program of research dedicated to improving the outcomes of children with anaphylaxis. This includes conducting studies to advance the understanding of the pathophysiology of anaphylaxis in children and to optimize the care they receive in the emergency department.

513-636-7966 timothy.dribin@cchmc.org

Elena M. Duma, MD Medical Director, Liberty Campus, Division of Emergency Medicine

Elena M. Duma, MD, is part of the education focus group.

513-636-2277 elena.duma@cchmc.org

Michelle D. Eckerle, MD Attending Physician, Emergency Department

513-636-4315 michelle.eckerle@cchmc.org

Theresa Frey, MD Attending Physician, Emergency Department

513-636-7966 theresa.frey@cchmc.org

Gary L. Geis, MD Medical Director, Center for Simulation and Research

Gary L. Geis, MD, uses medical simulation to investigate and improve knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of healthcare providers and care teams and to assess care systems and environment in the in situ setting allowing for identification and mitigation of latent threat to patient safety.
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513-636-6992 gary.geis@cchmc.org

Mike A. Gittelman, MD Co-Director, Comprehensive Children's Injury Center

Mike A. Gittelman, MD, investigates effective methods to prevent injuries to children. Through educational, advocacy, research, and community interventions, he seeks techniques to minimize the number one cause of death to children. He has been involved with resident education and curriculum development on injury prevention and has worked with high-risk communities to reduce pediatric injuries. With the Ohio Chapter of the AAP, he has developed a state-wide bicycle helmet intervention, a gun safety program in the pediatric office setting, a hospital-based safe sleep QI program, and an injury QI program for practicing pediatricians. His area of research expertise has been to study the impact of screening and counseling families about injury risk, in the office and ED setting, to promote safer behaviors and prevent future injuries. He has published his efforts extensively in peer-reviewed journals.

513-636-2274 mike.gittelman@cchmc.org

Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey, MD, MEd Associate Chair for Education, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey, MD, MEd's major areas of interests include resident and subspecialty medical education and improvement science methodology applied to medical education and training. He has several publications and chapters in the areas of procedural skills, experiential learning and effects of new hour regulations in pediatric training.

513-636-7918 javier.gonzalez@cchmc.org

Selena L. Hariharan, MD, FAAP

Selena L. Hariharan, MD, FAAP, is a member of the prevention focus group. She is interested in anticipatory guidance screening in the Emergency Department.

513-636-7966 selena.hariharan@cchmc.org

Erin Feigan Hoehn, MD

513-636-7966 erin.hoehn@cchmc.org

Laurie H. Johnson, MD, FAAP Clinician Educator, Division of Emergency Medicine

Laurie H. Johnson, MD, FAAP, is part of the clinical focus group and is interested in asthma-related research.

513-636-9378 laurie.johnson@cchmc.org

Stephanie S. Kennebeck, MD Director of Epic ASAP Development, Division of Emergency Medicine

Stephanie S. Kennebeck, MD, investigates the impact of the electronic medical record and clinical decision support on care in the emergent care of pediatric patients. The goal of this research is to identify ideal structure and support for design of the ideal Electronic Health Record.

513-636-7966 stephanie.kennebeck@cchmc.org

Benjamin T. Kerrey, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Benjamin T. Kerrey, MD, is an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Cincinnati Children’s and conducts clinical research on medical resuscitations in the ED. He has a particular interest in the process and outcomes of emergent intubation in the pediatric ED as well as the use of simulation to assess systems of care in that environment.

513-636-7966 benjamin.kerrey@cchmc.org

Jane Lee, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

513-636-2636 jane.lee@cchmc.org

Sang Hoon Lee, MD, MEd Simulation Fellow, Center for Simulation and Research

Sang Hoon Lee, MD, MEd, works with development, implementation, and evaluation of a simulation-based curriculum to improve proficiency and maintenance of skills in the use of pediatric-specific equipment for Emergency Medical Services providers.

513-636-1172 sanghoon.lee@cchmc.org

E. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens, MD, MS

Dr. Mahabee-Gittens’s research focuses on examining biomarkers and the clinical effects of tobacco smoke toxicants in the clinical and home settings of children exposed to secondhand and thirdhand smoke. She works on implementing strategies to decrease the effects of tobacco smoke on the children by helping parents quit smoking as a way to protect children from exposure to tobacco smoke toxicants. Dr. Mahabee-Gittens is the PI and Co-PI of three R01 trials (R01HD083354, R01ES027815, R01ES030743) designed to reduce child exposure to tobacco smoke, to measure and examine the contribution of thirdhand smoke in children’s environments to their overall tobacco smoke exposure, to measure the levels and composition of thirdhand smoke in the homes of smokers who have quit, and to examine the clinical effects of thirdhand smoke on children’s health.

513-636-7966 melinda.mahabee-gittens@cchmc.org

Constance M. McAneney, MD, MS

Constance M. McAneney, MD, MS, is part of the education focus group. She has spent her career developing clinical and educational programs for pediatric transport, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship and Medical Student Education in Pediatrics both locally and nationally. She is concentrating on fostering innovative and productive educational endeavors, bringing the significance of education to the forefront within the Division of Emergency Medicine.

513-636-7966 connie.mcaneney@cchmc.org

Eileen Murtagh Kurowski, MD Director of Quality Improvement, Division of Emergency Medicine

Eileen Murtagh Kurowski, MD, is a health services researcher who is interested in the emergency department care of adolescents and young adults with complex chronic conditions, with a particular focus on differences in care between pediatric and general EDs. She also has a secondary interest in care variations between pediatric and general EDs for common pediatric conditions.

513-803-6271 eileen.murtagh-kurowski@cchmc.org

Kevin M. Overmann, MD, MS Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

513-803-2968 kevin.overmann@cchmc.org

Wendy J. Pomerantz, MD, MS Co-Director, Comprehensive Children's Injury Center

Wendy J. Pomerantz, MD, MS, is a full-time clinician. In between clinical shifts, she is co-director of Injury Free Coalition for Kids. As well as co-director for Comprehension Children's Injury Center. She gives advocacy lectures and is known in the community for preventing injuries to children.

513-636-7153 wendy.pomerantz@cchmc.org

Jennifer L. Reed, MD, MS Director of Scientific Review and Development, Division of Emergency Medicine

Jennifer L. Reed, MD, MS's research interests include adolescent sexual health in the emergency department setting. The goal of her research is to improve screening and appropriate treatment of sexually transmitted infections among high risk adolescents.

513-636-7966 jennifer.reed@cchmc.org

Scott D. Reeves, MD Senior Clinical Director, Emergency Medicine

Scott D. Reeves, MD, is primarily interested in the area of quality improvement. Recent projects have focused on the treatment of pain in the Emergency Department. Other areas of interest include ED crowding and evidence-based guidelines.

513-636-7966 scott.reeves@cchmc.org

Tara D. Rhine, MD, MS Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

513-803-7158 tara.rhine@cchmc.org

Lauren C. Riney, DO Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Lauren C. Riney, DO, focuses her research on EMS, transport and prehospital medicine, specifically improving the care of children in the prehospital environment through education of EMS providers, development and improvement of prehospital pediatric protocols, and performing high quality prehospital research. Her current work includes administration of prehospital corticosteroids for children with asthma exacerbations and development and administration of a pediatric asthma severity score with associated asthma care management algorithm for targeted direct therapies.

513-636-7966 lauren.riney@cchmc.org

Richard M. Ruddy, MD

Richard M. Ruddy, MD, is one of the nodal principal investigators for Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). His research focus is on pediatric emergency care and network research with a specific interest in respiratory illness and in the use of implementation / improvement science to deliver higher quality clinical care to children.

513-636-7966 richard.ruddy@cchmc.org

David Schnadower, MD, MPH Senior Academic Director, Division of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Schnadower's main research interest is in improving the diagnosis and management of young children presenting with infectious diseases to the emergency department, particularly UTIs, viral gastroenteritis, bloody diarrhea caused by STEC as well as understanding the role of gut microbiome in young infants with serious bacterial infections.

513-803-5348 david.schnadower@cchmc.org

Charles J. Schubert, MD Director, Residency Global Child Health

Charles J. Schubert, MD, is a clinical educator involved with the development of global health education for the residency program. He is involved in the development of curriculum, in addition to unique learning opportunities related to global health. He has also been trained in improvement science and maintains involvement in this field.

513-636-7966 chuck.schubert@cchmc.org

Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd Director, Education Research Unit

Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd, studies patient-focused approaches to physician performance assessment. These include entrusbable professional activities and resident-sensitive quality measures, the latter of which he developed as the focus of his PhD work. The goal of his research is to ensure that physician training outcomes prepare graduates to meet the needs of patients.

513-803-2639 daniel.schumacher@cchmc.org

Hamilton P. Schwartz, MD Medical Director, Burnet Campus, Division of Emergency Medicine

Hamilton P. Schwartz, MD, is primarily interested in the Cincinnati Children’s transport team and pediatric pre-hospital care. His current projects focus on the development of quality metrics and performance improvement in critical care transport. He is also studying how video-telemedicine influences patient care in the mobile transport environment. He is the site primary investigator for the national RAMPART pre-hospital seizure medication study.

513-636-7966 hamilton.schwartz@cchmc.org

Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd Assistant Director, Pediatric Residency Training Program

Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd, is a clinical educator in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He is interested in investigating the impact of technology in education, specifically the use of multimedia and web-based tools.

513-636-4528 brad.sobolewski@cchmc.org

Nathan L. Timm, MD Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Nathan L. Timm, MD, is a pediatric emergency medicine physician with a research focus concentrating on hospital disaster/emergency management at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Efforts in this area include surge capacity planning, hazmat decontamination preparedness and Emergency Department utilization.

513-636-8805 nathan.timm@cchmc.org

Lisa M. Vaughn, PhD

Lisa M. Vaughn, PhD, has specific training and experience in community-based participatory research, community engagement, qualitative research methodologies, and culturally relevant health care with a focus on understanding health disparities and promoting health equity specifically with minority and immigrant families and vulnerable youth.

513-636-9424 lisa.vaughn@cchmc.org

Adam A. Vukovic, MD, MEd Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

513-803-5348 adam.vukovic@cchmc.org

Paria M. Wilson, MD, MEd Associate Fellowship Director, Division of Emergency Medicine

Paria M. Wilson, MD, MEd investigates wellness and resilience in trainees and practicing physicians through the Association for Pediatric Program Directors and by serving as a steering committee member on the Pediatric Resident Wellness & Resilience Study Consortium. Additionally, she has conducted work on neonatal herpes simplex virus infections and helped develop a guideline for decrease practice variability for this disease process. Her clinical research interests lie in providing evidence based care for common pediatric conditions presenting to the emergency department and in resuscitative medicine.

513-636-5837 paria.wilson@cchmc.org

Shan Yin, MD, MPH Medical Director, Drug and Poison Information Center

513-803-6002 shan.yin@cchmc.org

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