General and Community Pediatrics

Clinical Interests

Generalist pediatrics; telephone medicine; faculty development; pediatric resident education; medical education research.

Biography

Raymond C. Baker, MD, has been a member of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center since 1979.

Baker is currently associate director and education section head of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics, where he teaches primary care pediatrics to pediatric and family medicine residents in the outpatient clinics and on the inpatient wards. He also teaches in the faculty development program. In addition, Baker is the project director of the Pediatric Primary Care Training program, a federal grant-funded program within the general pediatrics program.

Baker is the editor and principal author of two books, Pediatric Primary Care: Well-Child Care and Pediatric Primary Care: Ill-Child Care, published as companion volumes in March, 2001 by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. These books represent the expanded, second edition of his popular book, Handbook of Pediatric Primary Care, which premiered in 1996 and is used widely across the country as a pocket reference in pediatric primary care.

Baker earned both his undergraduate degree in chemistry and microbiology and his medical degree at The Ohio State University and then trained in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He taught in the Family Medicine program and consulted in pediatrics at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Indiana before joining the faculty of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 1979. Baker received a master's degree in education from the University of Cincinnati College of Education in 2001.

In collaboration with the College of Education at the University of Cincinnati, Baker and his colleagues in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics have developed an online master's degree in education for health care professionals, which has been offered nationally since the fall, 2002. This two-year, part-time distance learning course is tailored to physicians and other health care professionals who seek advanced graduate level training in medical education and educational research.

BS: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1967.

MD: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1971.

MEd: University of Cincinnati College of Education, 2001.

Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD., 1971-1972; 1974-1976.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1977.

Patrick W. Brady, MD, MSc Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Patrick W. Brady, MD, MSc, is a clinical researcher and improvement scientist who works to design and evaluate a highly reliable system to identify, predict, and intervene on hospitalized patients at risk of clinical deterioration. He uses situation awareness and other high-reliability strategies to design complex interventions to improve the safety of care. He also participates in and leads projects to more broadly improve the quality of care of hospitalized children and their families.

513-636-0409 patrick.brady@cchmc.org

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Patrick W. Brady, MD, MSc

Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-0409

Fax 513-803-9245

Email patrick.brady@cchmc.org

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Patient safety; quality improvement; hospital medicine

Biography

Patrick Brady, MD, MSc, has clinical training in pediatrics and hospital medicine as well as advanced training in epidemiology and biostatistics and in the science of improvement through two 6-month courses at Cincinnati Children’s. He has completed coursework at the graduate level in human factors and through the Systems Engineering in Patient Safety (SEIPS) workshop led by NIH-funded researchers at the University of Wisconsin.

Their pilot work on a system to proactively identify, mitigate and escalate risk has resulted in measured decreases in patient harm and deterioration. The Academy for Healthcare Improvement recently recognized this work with top prize at its international meeting. Dr. Brady's current focus builds logically on this work, and his research team includes clinical and methodological experts with impressive research portfolios both inside and outside of healthcare.

In summary, Dr. Brady has the training, experience and collaborators needed to study and improve the care of patients at risk for deterioration, to define highly reliable interventions that deliver the right therapeutics early, and to improve the safety of patients in our increasingly complex healthcare system.

MD: Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2003.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

MSc: University of Cincinnati Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Mussman G, Parker M, Statile A, Sucharew H, Brady PW. Suctioning and length of stay in infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis. JAMA Pediatr. 2013 May:167(5):414-21.

Bonafide CP, Brady PW, Keren R, Conway PH, Marsolo K, Daymont C. Development of heart and respiratory rate percentile curves for hospitalized children. Pediatrics. 2013 Apr;131(4):e1150-7.

Brady PW, Muething S, Kotagal U et al. Improving situation awareness to reduce serious safety events and UNSAFE transfers of pediatric inpatients. Pediatrics. 2012.

Meuthing SE, Goudie A, Schoetkker PJ, Donnelly LF, Goodfriend MA, Bracke TM, Brady PW, Wheeler DS, Anderson JM, Kotagal UR. Reduction in serious safety events across an academic children's hospital. Pediatrics. 2012 Aug;130(2):e423-31.

Kaplan HC, Brady PW, Dritz M, Hooper DK, Linam M, Froehle C, Margolis PA. The Influence of Context on Quality Improvement Success in Healthcare: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Milbank Quarterly. 2010 Dec;88(4):500-59.

Brady PW, Conway PH, Goudie A. Length of intravenous antibiotic therapy and treatment failure in infants with urinary tract infections. Pediatrics. 2010 Aug;126(2):196-203.

Bigham MT, Brady PW, Manning PB, Jacobs BR, Kimball TR, Wong HR. Therapeutic application of intrapericardial tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) in a 4 month-old child with complex fibropurulent pericarditis. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008 Jan;9(1):e1-e4.

William B. Brinkman, MD, MEd, MSc Director of Research Section, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

William B. Brinkman, MD, MEd, MSc, researches shared decision-making between patients/parents and clinicians to promote high value care that is evidence-based and family-centered. He collaborates to develop interventions to facilitate shared decision making across a wide range of clinical contexts and is building an infrastructure to support shared decision making throughout Cincinnati Children's.

bill.brinkman@cchmc.org

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William B. Brinkman, MD, MEd, MSc

Director of Research Section, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

Physician Lead, Rapid Evidence Adoption to improve Child Health (REACH)

Research Director, Cincinnati Pediatric Research Group

Methods Expert, Evidence and Measures Team, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Member, Center for ADHD

Member, Center for Innovation in Chronic Disease Care

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Email bill.brinkman@cchmc.org

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Shared decision making; knowledge translation; family centered care; quality improvement; implementation science; attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); asthma; family/self-management of chronic conditions

Biography

Dr. Brinkman researches shared decision-making between patients, parents, and clinicians to promote high value care that is evidence-based and family-centered. He collaborates to develop interventions to facilitate shared decision-making across a wide-range of clinical contexts.

Dr. Brinkman serves as director of the Research Section in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics and the research director for the Cincinnati Pediatric Research Group, a practice-based research network. He also serves as a methods expert for the James M. Anderson Center's Evidence and Measures team. In this role, he is building an infrastructure to support shared decision-making throughout Cincinnati Children's.

MD: St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 1999.

Residency: Pediatrics, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2002.

Chief Residency: Pediatrics, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, 2003.

Fellowship: NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship, General & Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2006.

MEd: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2006.

MSc: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2013.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2002.

Brinkman WB, Baum R, Kelleher KJ, Peugh J, Gardner W, Lichtenstein P, Langberg J Epstein JN. Relationship between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Care and Medication Continuity. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2016; 55(4):289–294.

Brinkman WB, Epstein JN, Auinger P, Tamm L, Froehlich TE. Association of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Conduct Disorder with Early Onset Tobacco and Alcohol Use in a National Sample of Young Adolescents. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Feb 1;147:183-9.

Brinkman WB, Hartl Majcher J, Poling L, Shi G, Zender M, Sucharew H, Britto MT, Epstein JN. Shared Decision-Making to Improve Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Care. Patient Educ Couns. 93 (2013) 95–101.

Jerardi KE, Elkeeb D, Weiser J, Brinkman WB. Rapid Implementation of Evidence Based Guidelines for Imaging after First Urinary Tract Infection. Pediatrics. 2013;132:e749–e755.

Brinkman WB, Sherman SN, Zmitrovich AR, Visscher MO, Crosby LE, Phelan KJ, Donovan EF. In their own words: Adolescent views on ADHD and their evolving role managing medication. Acad Pediatr. 2012 Jan; 12(1):53-61.

Brinkman WB, Hartl J, Rawe L, Sucharew H, Britto MT, Epstein JN. Physicians’ Shared Decision Making Behaviors in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Care. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011 Nov; 165(11):1013-9.

Lipstein EA, Brinkman WB, Britto MT. What Is Known about Parent’s Treatment Decisions? A Narrative Review of Pediatric Decision Making. Med Decis Making. 2012 Mar-Apr;32(2):246-58.

Brinkman WB, Sherman SN, Zmitrovich AR, Visscher MO, Crosby LE, Phelan KJ, Donovan EF. Parental Angst Making and Revisiting ADHD Treatment Decisions. Pediatrics. 2009 Aug; 124: 580-9.

Brinkman WB, Geraghty SR, Lanphear BP, Khoury JC, Gonzalez del Rey JA, DeWitt TG, Britto MT. Effect of Multi-Source Feedback on Resident Communication Skills and Professionalism. A Randomized Controlled Trial. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007 Jan; 161: 44-9.

Brinkman WB, Geraghty SR, Lanphear BP, Khoury JC, Gonzalez del Rey JA, DeWitt TG, Britto MT. Evaluation of Resident Communication Skills and Professionalism: A Matter of Perspective? Pediatrics. 2006 Oct; 18: 1371-9.

Grants

Developing New Technologies to Improve ADHD Medication Continuity. R34, National Institute of Mental Health. Apr 2014–Mar 2017.

Collaborative Ohio Inquiry Networks (COIN) Research Center. (PI: Werner) Co-investigator. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Sep 2012–Aug 2017.

Cincinnati Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and Training. (PI: Heubi) Role: Co-Investigator, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Aug 2015–Mar 2019.

Anti-TNF Monotherapy versus Combination Therapy with Low Dose Methotrexate in Pediatric Crohn’s disease. (PI: Kappelman) Role: Co-investigator, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Oct 2015–Sep 2020.

A Decision Aid to Inform Consent for Return of Results across Genomic Sequencing Studies. (PI: Myers) Role: Co-Investigator, Cincinnati Children's Center for Pediatric Genomics. Jan 2016–Dec 2016.

Courtney M. Brown, MD, MSc General Pediatrics Research Committee, Co-chair

Courtney M. Brown, MD, MSc, focuses on improving systems of care for low-income children with or at-risk for mental illness. She has studied barriers to early treatment access and communication between pediatricians and parents about child mental health. In addition, she is involved in local and statewide initiatives to promote healthy development in primary care, with a particular focus on bridging between healthcare and community organizations.

513-636-4506 courtneym.brown@cchmc.org

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Courtney M. Brown, MD, MSc

General Pediatrics Research Committee, Co-chair

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-4506

Email courtneym.brown@cchmc.org

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Preventive care; mental health

Biography

Courtney M. Brown, MD, MSc, is a general pediatrician and a primary care researcher. Her research focuses on social and emotional development in preschool-aged children and on enhancing interdisciplinary efforts to connect families with services that promote healthy social-emotional development. She also has an interest in improving systems for reliable delivery of preventive services within the primary care pediatrics environment.

MD: Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2005-2008.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2008.

MSc: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2011.

Fellowship: NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2012; Quality Scholars Program in Healthcare Transformation, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2014.

Brown CM, Beck AF, Steuerwald W, Alexander E, Samaan ZM, Kahn RS, Mansour ME. Narrowing Care Gaps for Early Language Delay: A Quality Improvement Study. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2016; 55(2): 137-144.

Samaan Z, Brown CM, Morehous J, Perkins AA, Kahn RS, Mansour ME. Implementation of a Preventive Services Bundle in Academic Pediatric Primary Care Centers. Pediatrics. 2016 Mar;137(3):1-7.

Jones MN, Brown CM, Widener MJ, Sucharew HJ, Beck AF. Area-level Socioeconomic Factors Are Associated with Completion of Pediatric Preventive Services. J Prim Care Community Health. 2016 Feb 16.

Brown CM, Girio-Herrera E, Sherman SN, Kahn RS, Copeland KA. Pediatricians May Address Barriers Inadequately When Referring Low-Income Preschool-Aged Children to Behavioral Health Services. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2014;25: 406–424.

Brown CM, Perkins J, Blust A, Kahn RS. A Neighborhood-Based Approach to Population Health in the Pediatric Medical Home. J Community Health. 2015; 40(1): 1-11.

Greiner MV, Ross J, Brown CM, Beal SJ, Sherman SN. Foster Caregivers’ Perspectives on the Medical Challenges of Children Placed in their Care: Implications for Pediatricians Caring for Children in Foster Care. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2015; 54(9): 853-861.

Brown CM, Samaan ZM, Morehous JF, Perkins AA, Kahn RS, Mansour ME. Development of a Bundle Measure for Preventive Service Delivery to Infants in Primary Care. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2015; 21(4): 642-648.

Murtagh Kurowski E, Schondelmeyer AC, Brown C, Dandoy CE, Hanke SJ, Tubbs Cooley HL. A Practical Guide to Conducting Quality Improvement in the Health Care Setting. Current Treat Options Peds. 2015.

Brown CM, Girio-Herrera E, Sherman SN, Kahn RS, Copeland KA. Low-income parents’ perceptions of pediatrician advice on early childhood education. J Community Health. 2013;38:195-204.

Brown CM, Copeland KA, Sucharew H, Kahn RS. Social-Emotional Problems in Preschool-Aged Children: Opportunities for Prevention and Early Intervention. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012;166(10):1.

Kristen A. Copeland, MD Director, NRSA Research Fellowship

Kristen A. Copeland, MD, studies how the child care center environment—including its facilities, teachers, policies and practices—can promote children’s physical activity, gross motor development and healthy eating habits. Dr. Copeland also directs the three-year general pediatric fellowship program, which aims to prepare independent researchers to focus on prevalent health problems affecting underserved children and adolescents.

513-636-1687 kristen.copeland@cchmc.org

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Kristen A. Copeland, MD

Director, NRSA Research Fellowship

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-1687

Fax 513-636-4402

Email kristen.copeland@cchmc.org

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Health of children in child care; child care illness exclusions; physical activity and obesity prevention in child care settings

Biography

Kristen A. Copeland, MD, is a general pediatrician and a child health researcher. Her research interests are in early education settings—how the child care environment affects children’s health. In the past she has focused on child care illness policies and the temporary exclusion of children from child care settings due to illness. She studied how exclusion decisions are influenced by personal beliefs and whether they comply with national guidelines. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed literature and covered extensively by the press, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Parents Magazine.

More recently, Dr. Copeland has become interested in the opportunities child care settings offer for disease prevention and health promotion, in particular for preventing childhood obesity. Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will identify the key aspects of the child care center environment—such as physical activity policies, amount and design of playground facilities, menu content, and staff attitudes and behavior that effectively promote children’s physical activity and a balanced dietary intake. The goal of her research is to produce new knowledge than can inform the development of evidence-based policies and practices for child care centers that promote active play, improve children’s diets and foster the development of lifelong healthy habits.

Originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, Dr. Copeland attained her bachelor’s degree in Houston, Texas at Rice University, double majoring in French and the social studies of science, technology, and medicine. She earned her MD from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She completed a pediatrics residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2002 and pursued further training in public health and health services research as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. She returned to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2004 as a faculty member in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics within the UC Department of Pediatrics.

MD: University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, 1999.

Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2002.

Fellowship: Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2004.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2002.

Wosje KS, Khoury PR, Claytor RP, Copeland KA, Hornung RW, Daniels SR, Kalkwarf HJ. Dietary patterns associated with fat and bone mass in young children. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Aug;92(2):294-303.

Copeland KA, Sherman SN, Kendeigh CA, Saelens BE, Kalkwarf HJ. Flip flops, dress clothes, and no coat: clothing barriers to children's physical activity in child-care centers identified from a qualitative study. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2009 Nov 6;6:74.

Benjamin SE, Copeland KA, Cradock A, Walker E, Slining MM, Neelon B, Gillman MW. Menus in child care: A comparison of state regulations to national standards. J Am Diet Assoc. 2009 Jan;109(1):109-15.

Wosje, KS, Khoury, PR, Claytor, RP, Copeland, KA, Kalkwarf, HJ, Daniels, SR. Adiposity and TV viewing are related to less bone accrual in young children. J Peds. 2009 Jan;154(1):79-85.e2.

Copeland, K. A., Harris, E., Wang, N., and Cheng, T. L. Compliance with AAP/APHA Illness Exclusion Guidelines for Child Care Centers among Parents, Pediatricians, and Child Care Providers. Pediatrics. 2006 Nov;118(5):e1369-80.

Copeland, K. A., Duggan, A. K., Shope, T. R.. Knowledge and Beliefs about Guidelines for Exclusion of Ill Children from Child Care. Ambulatory Pediatrics. 2005 Nov-Dec;5(6):365-71.

Rose SR, Vogiatzi MG, Copeland KC. A general pediatric approach to evaluating a short child. Pediatr Rev. 2005 Nov;26(11):410-20.

Sheela Rath Geraghty, MD, MS, IBCLC, FAAP Medical Director, Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic

Sheela Rath Geraghty, MD, MS, IBCLC, FAAP, conducts clinical research studies on the challenges women face related to successful breastfeeding. Dr. Geraghty’s current research focuses on the influence of breast milk expression on maternal and child outcomes.

513-636-2526 sheela.geraghty@cchmc.org

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Sheela Rath Geraghty, MD, MS, IBCLC, FAAP

Medical Director, Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-2526

Fax 513-636-4402

Email sheela.geraghty@cchmc.org

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Breastfeeding; breast milk pumping; human milk banking; multiple births

Biography

Sheela R. Geraghty, MD, is a general pediatrician and lactation consultant. Dr. Geraghty is the medical director for the Cincinnati Children’s Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic. Dr. Geraghty’s research and clinical practice focuses on barriers to successful breastfeeding.

BS: Biology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, 1991.

MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1995.

Residency: Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, 1995-1998.

Chief Residency: Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, 1998-1999.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2000-2003.

MS: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2003.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2016; International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, 2016.

Young BE, Patinkin Z, Pyle L, Davidson BS, Geraghty SR, Morrrow AL, Krebs NF. Markers of oxidative stress in human milk do not differ by maternal BMI but are related to infant growth trajectories. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2017;21(6):1367-1376.

Weisband YL, Keim SA, Keder LM, Geraghty SR, Gallo MF. Early breast milk pumping intentions among postpartum women. Breastfeeding Medicine. 2017;12(1):28-32.

Oza-Frank R, Moreland JJ, McNamara K, Geraghty SR, Keim SA. Early lactation and infant feeding practices differ by maternal gestational diabetes history. Journal of Human Lactation. 2016;32(4):658-665.

Boone KM, Geraghty SR, Keim SA. Feeding At the Breast and Expressed Milk Feeding: Associations with Otitis Media and Diarrhea in Infants. Journal of Pediatrics. 2016;174:118-125.

O’Sullivan EJ, Geraghty SR, Rasmussen KM. Informal human milk sharing: A qualitative exploration of the attitudes and experiences of mothers. Journal of Human Lactation. 2016;32(3):416-24.

Keim SA, McNamara K, Kwiek JJ, Geraghty SR. Drugs of Abuse in Human Milk Purchased via the Internet. Breastfeed Med. 2015;10(9):416-8.

Klag EA, McNamara K, Geraghty SR, Keim SA. Associations between breast milk feeding, introduction of solid foods, and weight gain in the first 12 months of life. Clinical Pediatrics. 2015;54(11):1059-67.

Geraghty SR, McNamara K, Kwiek JJ, Rogers LK, Klebanoff MA, Augustine MS, Keim SA. Tobacco metabolites and caffeine in human milk purchased via the Internet. Breastfeeding Medicine. 2015;10(9):419-24.

Keim SA, Kulkarni M, McNamara KA, Geraghty SR, Billock R, Ronau R, Hogan JS, Kwiek JJ. Cow’s milk contamination of human milk purchased via the internet. Pediatrics. 2015;135(5):e1157-62.

Keim SA, McNamara KA, Dillon CE, Stafford K, Ronau R, McKenzie LB, Geraghty SR. Breast milk sharing: Awareness and participation among women in the Moms2Moms study. Breastfeed Med. 2014 Oct;9(8):398-406.

Craig H. Gosdin, MD, MSHA Co-Medical Director, Division of Hospital Medicine, Liberty Campus Community Integration

Craig H. Gosdin, MD, MSHA, has research interests that include hospitalist workforce issues, identification of best practices and financial sustainability of hospitalist programs, and cost effectiveness.

513-636-6223 craig.gosdin@cchmc.org

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Craig H. Gosdin, MD, MSHA

Co-Medical Director, Division of Hospital Medicine, Liberty Campus Community Integration

Medical Director, Liberty Observation Unit

Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-6223

Fax 513-803-9245

Email craig.gosdin@cchmc.org

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Administration; resident education; pediatric hospitalist workforce issues

Biography

Dr. Gosdin is a pediatric hospitalist with a diverse training background. His clinical experience includes practice in community and academic settings as well as practice in the office, emergency department and inpatient settings.

As medical director of the Liberty Hospitalist Service and Liberty Inpatient Unit (LA1W), he is responsible for the development and expansion of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Liberty Campus. He is active in the Division of Hospital Medicine Leadership Group at Cincinnati Children's and helps lead strategic planning and program development for the division. He also serves as the leader of regional programs for the Division of Hospital Medicine. On the national level, Dr. Gosdin has served on the PHM Roundtable Clinical / Workforce Working Group to help develop Guidelines for a Pediatric Hospitalist Dashboard, and has performed on-site consultation for hospitalist programs at other institutions.

MD: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1994.

Internship: University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas, Dallas, TX, 1995.

Residency: University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas, Dallas, TX, 1996-1997.

Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 1997, 2004.

MSHA: Virginia Commonwealth University, June, 2009.

Gosdin CH, Vaughn LM. Physician to Physician Bedside Handoff with Nurse and Family Involvement: A Qualitative Examination of Stakeholder Perceptions. Hospital Pediatrics. 2(1):34-38.

Hain P, Daru J, Robbins E, Bode R, Brands C, Gosdin CH, Garber M, Marks M, Percelay Terferi S, Tobey D. A Proposed Dashboard for Pediatric Hospital Medicine Groups. Hospital Pediatrics. 2(2):59-70.

Tofani BF, Rineair SA, Gosdin CH, Pilcher PM, McGee S, Varadarajan KR, Schoettker PJ. Quality Improvement Project to Reduce Infiltration and Extravasation Events in a Pediatric Hospital. J Pediatr Nurs. 2012 Dec;27(6):682-9.

Camille C. Graham, MD Executive Community Physician Leader, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

Camille C. Graham, MD, is a general pediatrician who is conducting research in disparities in influenza vaccination among minority children; the use of novel ways to reduce emergency room use and hospitalization among high-risk African-American children with asthma. She is conducting community-based participatory research to study health care access, medical home use, and ED utilization in the Latino youth community of greater Cincinnati.

513-803-8065 camille.graham@cchmc.org

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Camille C. Graham, MD

Executive Community Physician Leader, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-8065

Email camille.graham@cchmc.org

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Health disparities; asthma outcomes in minority populations; influenza vaccination; community engagement

Biography

Dr. Graham, MD, started a solo private practice, Mid-City Pediatrics, in 1983. There are now two locations with five pediatricians and one pediatric nurse practitioner dedicated to delivering quality healthcare without regard to income. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and serve on its Council of Community Pediatrics. She served as president of the Cincinnati Medical Association for a four year term (1996-1999), and successfully led the effort to reinstate two physicians who had been terminated without cause from an insurance managed care panel. She was president of medical staff at Cincinnati Children’s from 2004-2005, and led the development of performance improvement criteria for the medical staff and an successful improvement project to decrease medical record delinquencies; initiated the process for credentialing advance practice nurses.

She was a member of Cincinnati Children’s Board of Trustees from 2005-2011. She is a current member of the City of Cincinnati’s Board of Health, where she helped formulate a working group to provide information and access to children affected by the closure of a community health center network.

MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1977.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 1980.

Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 1982-present.

Ambroggio L, Thomson J, Murtagh Kurowski E, Courter J, Statile A, Graham C, Sheehan B, Iyer S, Shah SS, White CM. Quality Improvement Increases Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Childhood Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Pediatrics. 2013 May;131(5):e1623-31.

Myers SS, Clark MD, Russell JA, Graham CC, Stultz MB, Reidy KM. Focusing Measures for Performance-Based Privileging of Physicians on Improvement. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008 Dec;34(12):724-33.

Mary V. Greiner, MD, MS Medical Director, CHECK Foster Care Center

Mary V. Greiner, MD, MS, is a child abuse pediatrician who is doing clinical research in child abuse and foster care health. She is studying abusive head trauma, with specific interest in the role of diagnostic radiology to determine risk factors for subdural hemorrhages, as well as looking at outcomes of children with head injury. Research in the disparities of foster care health as well as the impact of interventions, such as specialized care and focused screenings, is a second clinical focus.

513-636-9979 mary.greiner@cchmc.org

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Mary V. Greiner, MD, MS

Medical Director, CHECK Foster Care Center

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-9979

Email mary.greiner@cchmc.org

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Foster care health; child abuse pediatrics

Biography

Mary Greiner, MD, MS, completed training as a child abuse pediatrician in 2011 and subsequently established the Comprehensive Health Evaluations for Cincinnati’s Kids (CHECK) Foster Care Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The CHECK Center contracts with Job and Family Services to provide comprehensive medical evaluations and assessments of overall functioning for foster youth at the time of entry into foster care and with each placement change.

Dr. Greiner has used her work with the CHECK Foster Care Center to inform a program of research in health issues for youth in foster care. Current research projects include examining knowledge of health and behavioral issues among foster caregivers; piloting and studying interventions to address identified needs for youth in foster care (including traumatic stress prevention, developmental and behavioral evaluations, and dental care); and examining knowledge of healthcare systems and self-management of health for foster youth preparing to age out of foster care.

MD: Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, 2005.

Residency: Pediatrics, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, 2008.

Fellowship: Child Abuse, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2011.

Beal SJ, Greiner MV. Children in nonparental care: health and social risks. Pediatric research. 2016 Jan;79(1-2):184-90.

Greiner MV, Greiner HM, Caré MM, Owens D, Shapiro R, Holland K. Adding Insult to Injury Nonconvulsive Seizures in Abusive Head Trauma. Journal of child neurology. 2015 Nov;30(13):1778-84.

Greiner MV, Ross J, Brown CM, Beal SJ, Sherman SN. Foster Caregivers’ Perspectives on the Medical Challenges of Children Placed in Their Care Implications for Pediatricians Caring for Children in Foster Care. Clinical pediatrics. 2015 Aug;54(9):853-61.

Wilson PM, Chua M, Care M, Greiner MV, Keeshin B, Bennett B. Utility of head computed tomography in children with a single extremity fracture. The Journal of pediatrics. 2014;164(6):1274-1279.

Greiner MV, Richards TJ, Care MM, Leach JL. Prevalence of subdural collections in children with macrocrania. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2013;34(12):2373-2378.

Greiner MV, Berger RP, Thackeray JD, Lindberg DM, Examining Siblings to Recognize Abuse (ExSTRA) Investigators. Dedicated retinal examination in children evaluated for physical abuse without radiographically identified traumatic brain injury. The Journal of pediatrics. 2013;163(2):527-531.

Greiner MV, Palusci VJ, Keeshin BR, Kearns SC, Sinal SH. A preliminary screening instrument for early detection of medical child abuse. Hospital pediatrics. 2013;3(1):39-44.

Wilson PM, Greiner MV, Duma EM. Posterior rib fractures in a young infant who received chiropractic care. Pediatrics. 2012 Oct 1.

Greiner MV, Lawrence AP, Horn P, Newmeyer AJ, Makoroff KL. Early clinical indicators of developmental outcome in abusive head trauma. Childs Nerv Syst. 2012 Jun; 28 (6): 889-96.

Greiner, MV, Kerrigan JR. Puberty: Timing is Everything. Pediatric Annals. 2006 Dec;35(12):916-22.

John S. Hutton, MS, MD

John S. Hutton, MS, MD, explores the influence of early home environment, especially shared reading and screen-based media, on emergent literacy and brain development. To help identify children at risk for reading difficulty and correlate behavioral and imaging-based evidence, he is also working to develop clinic-based literacy screening tools. Dr. Hutton is also interested in the use of children’s books for pediatric anticipatory guidance.

513-636-6721 john1.hutton@cchmc.org

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John S. Hutton, MS, MD

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-6721

Email john1.hutton@cchmc.org

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Clinical & Research Interests

Clinical

General and community pediatrics

Research

Emergent literacy; shared and dialogic reading; early brain development; screening measures development and validation; health effects of screen-based media; pediatric health literacy and bibliotherapy

Biography

Dr. John S. Hutton, MD, is a pediatrician and clinical researcher in the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Division of General and Community Pediatrics and Reading and Literacy Discovery Center. He graduated with honors from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, received Master’s Degrees from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Cincinnati, and completed pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. His unique reading background includes over 15 years at the helm of Blue Manatee Children’s Bookstore and authorship of over 24 children’s books, many with health-promoting themes, including screen time reduction (Baby Unplugged), reading and talking to babies, infant calming, safe sleep and ADHD. His books have been adopted in numerous statewide public health campaigns, distributed to over 1 million families to date, proceeds benefiting non-profit advocacy groups. He currently serves as “spokes-doctor” for the Read Aloud 15 MINUTES national campaign and works closely with the Reach Out and Read program.

Dr. Hutton’s research focus at Cincinnati Children's involves the application of MRI to better understand the influence of modifiable aspects of home reading environment on brain networks supporting emergent literacy (skills and attitudes preparing a child for reading). His work was the first to document such effects prior to kindergarten, and was widely featured in national media. Other recent studies involve the influence of parent and child engagement during shared reading on brain function in young children, and the effect of screen time and screen-based platforms on neural processing and imagery. Dr. Hutton’s overarching goal is to raise awareness of the importance of shared reading and parent-child engagement for healthy cognitive and social-emotional development, especially in disadvantaged populations, and better understand how we might improve early environments and interventions.

BS: Mathematics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.

MS: Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

MS: Clinical and Translational Research, Cincinnati, OH.

Fellowship: National Research Service Award (NRSA), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Certification: Pediatrics.

Horowitz-Kraus T, Hutton JS. From emergent literacy to reading: how learning to read changes a child's brain. Acta Paediatr. 2015 Jul;104(7):648-56.

Hutton JS, Horowitz-Kraus T, Mendelsohn AL, DeWitt T, Holland SK. Home Reading Environment and Brain Activation in Preschool Children Listening to Stories. Pediatrics. 2015 Sep;136(3):466-78.

Hutton JS. Baby unplugged: a novel, market-based approach to reducing screen time and promoting healthy alternatives. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013 Jan;52(1):62-5.

Grants

A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing a Children’s Book to Brochures for Safe Sleep Education in an At-Risk Population Enrolled in a Home Visitation Program. Principal Investigator. Private Foundation Grant, The de Cavel Family SIDS Foundation. Mar 2013-Oct 2016.

Neural Effects of Home Reading Environment, Screen Time and Animated Format in Preschool Children Processing Stories. Principal Investigator. Private Foundation Grant, Thrasher Research Fund. Jan 2016-Dec 2017.

Read Aloud Longitudinal Study, Screening Measures and Neuroimaging Protocol Development Stage. Principal Investigator. Private Foundation Grants, ReadAloud.org and the Candace Kendle Charitable Trust. Jul 2016-Jul 2017.

Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH Associate Chair of Community Health, UC Department of Pediatrics

Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH, studies the social and biologic pathways that lead to child health disparities, and develops interventions to interrupt those pathways. He received NIH funding to launch a large-scale study of disparities in children's admissions for asthma. A partnership he co-founded that embeds legal aid advocates in pediatric primary care to address the social determinants of child health was featured in The New York Times.

513-636-4369 robert.kahn@cchmc.org

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Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH

Associate Chair of Community Health, UC Department of Pediatrics

Associate Director, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

Physician Lead, Community and Population Health, James M. Anderson Center for Health System Excellence

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-4369

Fax 513-636-7247

Email robert.kahn@cchmc.org

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Parental health as a mediator of poverty's effects on children; social and economic disparities in children's health; interaction of genes and environment in common childhood diseases

Biography

Robert S. Kahn, MD, MPH, is a general pediatrician and child health researcher. Dr. Kahn's main interest lies at the intersection of poverty and child health, trying to understand what leads to worse health among poor children, and where me might intervene most effectively. He focuses on the most common pediatric conditions such as asthma and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). His work includes both NIH-funded research, but also a focus on building practical collaborations with the most effective community agencies.

Dr. Kahn attended Princeton University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. At Children's Hospital in Boston, he completed his residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in primary care research. At the same time, he obtained a Master of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Kahn came to Cincinnati Children's in 1999 as an assistant professor of pediatrics within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Currently, he is a professor and associate director of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics. He now helps to direct the Community Health initiative in the Strategic Plan, and he is co-director of the Cincinnati Child-Health Law Partnership.

BA: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1986.

MD: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 1992.

Residency: Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 1995.

Fellowship: Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 1997.

MPH: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 1997.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1995, 2002.

Moncrief TM, Beck AF, Simmons JM, Huang B, Kahn RS. Single parent households and increased child asthma morbidity. J Asthma. 2014 Apr;51(3)60-6.

Newman NC, Ryan PH, Huang B, Beck AF, Sauers HS, Kahn RS. Traffic-related air pollution and asthma hospital readmission in children: a longitudinal cohort study. J Pediatr. 2014 Mar 25.

Beck AF, Huang B, Simmons JM, Moncrief T, Sauers HS, Chen C, Ryan PH, Newman NC, Kahn RS. Role of financial and social hardships in asthma racial disparities. Pediatrics. 2014 Mar;133(3):431-9.

Klein MD, Alcamo AM, Beck AF, O'Toole JK, McLinden D, Henize A, Kahn RS. Can a video curriculum on the social determinants of health affect residents' practice and families' perceptions of care? Acad Pediatr. 2014 Mar-Apr;14(2):159-66.

Brown CM, Girio-Herrera E, Sherman SN, Kahn RS, Copeland KA. Pediatricians may address barriers inadequately when referring low-income preschool-aged children to behavioral health Services. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2014 Feb;25(1):406-24.

Howrylak JA, Spanier AJ, Huang B, Peake RW, Kellogg MD, Sauers H, Kahn RS. Cotinine in children admitted for asthma and readmission. Pediatrics. 2014 Feb;133(2):e355-62.

DeMartini T, Beck AF, Kahn RS, Klein MD. Food insecure families: description of access and barriers to food from one pediatric primary care center. J Community Health. 2013 Dec;38(6):1182-7.

Goyal NK, Hall ES, Meinzen-Derr JK, Kahn RS, Short JA, Van Ginkel JB, Ammerman RT. Dosage effect of prenatal home visiting on pregnancy outcomes in at-risk, first-time mothers. Pediatrics. 2013 Nov;132 Suppl 2:S118-25.

Beck AF, Simmons JM, Sauers HS, Sharkey K, Alam M, Jones C, Kahn RS. Connecting at-risk inpatient asthmatics to a community-based program to reduce home environmental risks: care system redesign using quality improvement methods. Hosp Pediatr. 2013 Oct;3(4):326-34.

Chirdkiatgumchai V, Xiao H, Fredstrom BK, Adams RE, Epstein JN, Shah SS, Brinkman WB, Kahn RS, Froehlich TE. National Trends in Psychotropic Medication Use in Very Young Children: 1994-2009. Pediatrics. 2013 Oct;132(4):615-23.

Heidi J. Kalkwarf, PhD, RD Scientific Director, Bionutrition & Body Composition Core Laboratory, CCTST

Heidi J. Kalkwarf, PhD, RD, investigates the normal patterns of bone acquisition in infants, children and adolescents, life style factors and medical conditions that affect bone accrual and how bone mineral deficits translate to risk of fracture. The long term goals of this work are to identify children who are at risk for fractures in childhood or osteoporosis later in life, and to identify interventions to reduce this risk.

513-636-3803 heidi.kalkwarf@cchmc.org

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Heidi J. Kalkwarf, PhD, RD

Scientific Director, Bionutrition & Body Composition Core Laboratory, CCTST

Associate Director, Digestive Health Center
Associate Director, Pediatric Advanced Nutrition Fellowship

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-3803

Fax 513-636-4402

Email heidi.kalkwarf@cchmc.org

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Bone mineral density in infants and children; body composition; dietary intake assessment; dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA); peripheral QCT

Biography

Heidi Kalkwarf, PhD, RD, is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research interest is in bone health and body composition development during growth. Her research investigates the normal patterns of bone acquisition in infants, children and adolescents, how lifestyle factors and chronic medical conditions affect bone accrual and how bone mineral deficits translate to risk of fracture. The long term goals of this work are to identify children who are at risk for fractures in childhood or osteoporosis later in life and to identify interventions to reduce this risk. One of her current studies focuses on bone acquisition in toddlers and pre-school aged children, an understudied population that is undergoing rapid changes in motor skills, physical activity, dietary intake and growth. She is also investigating the long term bone health consequences of bariatric surgery performed during adolescence. Dr. Kalkwarf’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for the last two decades.

Dr. Kalkwarf is a standing member of the NIH study section Neurological, Aging and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology (NAME). She came to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as a postdoctoral fellow in 1990 and joined the faculty in 1993.

BS: Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 1980.

MNS: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1983.

PhD: Cornell University; Ithaca, NY, 1991.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1990-1993.

Certification: Registered Dietitian, 1983.

Mitchell JA, Chesi A, Elci O, McCormack SE, Roy SM, Kalkwarf HJ, Lappe JM, Gilsanz V, Oberfield SE, Shepherd JA, Kelly A, Grant SFA, Zemel BS. Genetic risk scores implicated in adult bone fragility associate with pediatric bone density. J Bone Mineral Res. 2016;31(4):789-95.

Lappe J, Watson P, Gilsanz V, Hangartner T, Kalkwarf HJ, Oberfield S, Shepherd J, Winer K, Zemel B. The longitudinal effects of physical activity and dietary calcium on bone mass accrual across stages of pubertal development. J Bone Miner Res. 2015 Jan;30:156-64.

Ollberding NJ, Couch SC, Woo JG, Kalkwarf HJ. Within- and between-individual variation in nutrient intake in children and adolescents. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2014;114(11):1749-58.e5

Appleman SS, Kalkwarf HJ, Dwivedi A, Heubi JE. Bone deficits in parenteral nutrition-dependent infants and children with intestinal failure are attenuated when accounting for slower growth. J Ped Gastroenterol Nutr. 2013 Jul;57(1):124-130.

Kalkwarf HJ, Zemel BS, Yolton K, Heubi JE. Bone mineral content and density of the lumbar spine of infants and toddlers: influence of age, sex, race, growth and human milk feeding. J Bone Mineral Res. 2013;28:206-12.

Zemel B, Kalkwarf HJ, Gilsanz V, Lappe JM, Oberfield S, Shepherd JA, Frederick MM, Huang X, Lu M, Mahboubi S, Hangartner T, Winer KK. Revised Reference Curves for Bone Mineral Content and Areal Bone Mineral Density According to Age and Sex for Black and Non-Black Children: Results of The Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study. J Clin Endocrin Metab. 2011 Oct;96(10):3160-9.

Wren TAL, Shepherd J, Kalkwarf H, Zemel B, Lappe J, Oberfield S, Winer KK, Gilsanz V. Racial disparity in fracture rates between white and non-white children in the United States. J Pediatr. 2012;161:1035-40.e2.

Kaulfers A-MD, Bean JA, Inge TH, Dolan LM, Kalkwarf HJ. Bone Loss in Adolescents after Bariatric Surgery. Pediatrics. 2011 Apr;127(4):e956-61.

Kalkwarf HJ, Laor T, Bean JA. Fracture risk in children with a forearm injury is associated with volumetric bone density and cortical area (by peripheral QCT) and areal bone density (by DXA). Osteoporos Int. 2011 Feb;22(2):607-16

Kalkwarf HJ, Gilsanz V, Lappe JM, Oberfield S, Shepherd JA, Hangartner TN, Huang X, Frederick MM, Winer KK, Zemel BS. Tracking of bone mass and density during childhood and adolescence. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2010 Apr;95(4):1690-8.

Grants

Bone Mineral Accretion in Young Children. Principal Investigator. National Institutes of Health/The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Sept 2013–Aug 2018.

Early Pb exposure a risk for bone health later in life in African American women. Co-investigator. National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Jun 2014–Mar 2018.

Digestive Health Center: Bench to Bedside Research in Pediatric Digestive Disease. Co-investigator. National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Jul 2012–May 2017.

Early Life Perfluoroalkyl Substance Exposure & Obesity: Mechanisms and Phenotyping. Co-investigator. National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Feb 2016-Nov 2020.

Teen Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) Research Project. Co-investigator. National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Sept 2016–Aug 2021.

Roohi Kharofa, MD, MPH

513-803-3265 roohi.kharofa@cchmc.org

Melissa D. Klein, MD, MEd Director, Education Section, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

Melissa D. Klein, MD, MEd, is a general pediatrician with an interest in medical education research. Her main research focuses on the effects of education on pediatric residents’ knowledge of and attitudes towards the social determinants of health. Her most recent projects investigate newly created and innovative teaching techniques and measurement tools to evaluate resident practice change towards screening for social needs in the primary care centers.

513-636-4506 melissa.klein@cchmc.org

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Melissa D. Klein, MD, MEd

Director, Education Section, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

Director, General Pediatrics Master Educator Fellowship

Director, Primary Care and Community Pediatrics Pathway of the Pediatric Residency

Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-4506

Fax 513-636-4506

Email melissa.klein@cchmc.org

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Medical education; health disparities; primary care pediatrics

Biography

Melissa Klein, MD, Med, is an associate professor in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She completed her medical training at Albany Medical College and her pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She more recently earned her Master of Education at the University of Cincinnati. Her main interests are medical education, specifically related to teaching residents how to address social determinants of health in pediatric settings. She is involved in education within the institution as one of the associate directors of the Pediatric Residency Training Program and the education section director in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics.

Dr. Klein is also interested in investigating and addressing health disparities. As part of this role, she serves as the physician champion of education for Child HeLP, the Medical-Legal Partnership serving patients in the pediatric primary care centers. She is also involved a program, collaborating with the FreeStore FoodBank, to reduce food insecurity in infants seeking care in the outpatient primary care center.

MD: Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, 1995.

Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1995-1998.

Chief Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1998-1999.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1999; recertification, 2006.

Klein MD, Alcamo AM, Beck AF, O’Toole JK, McLinden D, Henize A, Kahn RS. Can a Video Curriculum on the Social Determinants of Health Affect Residents’ Practice and Families’ Perceptions of Care? Acad Pediatr. 2014 Mar-Apr;14(2):159-66.

Klein MD, Schumacher DJ, Sandel M. Assessing and Managing the Social Determinants of Health: Defining an Entrustable Professional Activity to Assess Residents’ Ability to Meet Societal Needs. Acad Pediatr. 2014 Jan-Feb:4(1):10-3.

Klein M, O’Toole JK, McLinden D, DeWitt TG. Training Tomorrow’s Medical Education Leaders: Creating a General Pediatric Master Educator Fellowship. J Pediatr. 2013 Mar;162(3):440-441.

Klein M, Niebuhr V, D’Alessandro D. Innovative online faculty development utilizing the power of social media. Acad Pediatr. 2013 Nov-Dec;13(6):564-9.

O’Toole JK, Solan LG, Burkhardt MC, Klein MD. Watch and Learn: An Innovative Video Trigger Curriculum to Increase Resident Screening for Social Determinants of Health. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013 Apr;52(4):344-50.

Klein MD, Beck AF, Henize AW, Parrish DS, Fink EE, Kahn RS. Doctors and Lawyers Collaborating to HeLP Children - Outcomes from a Successful Partnership between Professions. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2013 Aug;24(3):1063-73.

O’Toole JK, Burkhardt MC, Solan LG, Vaughn L, Klein MD. Resident Confidence Addressing Social History: Is It Influenced By Availability of Social-Legal Resources? Clin Pediatr (Phil). 2012 Jul;51(7):625-31.

Beck AF, Klein MD, Schaffzin JK, Tallent V, Gillam M, Kahn RS. Identifying and treating a substandard housing cluster using a medical-legal partnership. Pediatrics. 2012 Nov;130(5):831-8.

Demartini TL, Beck AF, Klein MD, Kahn RS. Access to Digital Technology Among Families Coming to Urban Pediatric Primary Care Clinics. Pediatrics. 2013 Jul;132(1):e142-8.

Burkhardt MC, Beck AF, Conway PH, Kahn RS, Klein MD. Enhancing Accurate Identification of Food Insecurity Using Quality Improvement Techniques. Pediatrics. 2012 Feb;129(2):e504-10.

Grants

Public Health Service Act, Title VII. Health Resources and Services Administration. Principal Investigator. Oct 2011 - Oct 2016. #D55HP23195.

Michelle L. McGowan, PhD Member, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

Michelle L. McGowan, PhD, investigates ethical and social implications of reproductive, genetic, and genomic technologies, with a particular focus on how patients, families, consumers, clinicians, and researchers conceptualize the risks and benefits of these technologies. Her scholarship focuses on egg donation, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, fertility preservation, carrier screening, genomic testing and medicine, and participant-centric genomic research.

513-636-3656 michelle.mcgowan@cchmc.org

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Michelle L. McGowan, PhD

Member, Division of General and Community Pediatrics

Member, Ethics Center

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Associate Professor, UC Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Phone 513-636-3656

Email michelle.mcgowan@cchmc.org

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Ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and genomics; ethical and social implications of reproductive technologies

BA: Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2000.

PhD: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2007.

Fellowship: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 2009.

McGowan ML, Settersten RA, Jr., Juengst ET, Fishman JR. Integrating genomics into clinical oncology: ethical and social challenges from proponents of personalized medicine. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations. 2014;32, 187-192.

Juengst ET, Fishman JR, McGowan ML, Settersten RA, Jr. Serving epigenetics before its time. Trends in Genetics. 2014;30(10): 427-429.

Choudhury S, Fishman JR, McGowan ML, Juengst ET. Big data, open science, and the brain: lessons learned from genomics. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2014;8, 239.

Cho D, McGowan ML, Metcalfe J, Sharp RR. Expanded carrier screening in reproductive healthcare: perspectives from specialists in medical genetics. Human Reproduction. 2013;28(6), 1725-1730.

McGowan ML, Glinka A, Highland J, Asaad G, Sharp RR. Genetics patients’ perspectives on clinical genomic testing. Personalized Medicine. 2013;10(4), 339-347.

Juengst ET, Settersten RA, Jr., Fishman JR, McGowan ML. After the revolution: ethical and social challenges in personalized genomic medicine. Personalized Medicine. 2012;9(4), 429-439.

Sharp RR, McGowan ML, Verma JA, Landy DC, McAdoo S, Carson SA, Simpson JL, McCullough LB. Moral attitudes and beliefs among couples pursuing PGD for sex selection. Reproductive Biomedicine Online. 2010;21, 838-847.

McGowan ML, Fishman JR, Lambrix MA. Personal genomics and individual identities: Motivations and moral imperatives of early users. New Genetics and Society. 2010;29(3), 261-290.

Kenney NJ, McGowan ML. Looking back: Egg donors’ retrospective evaluations of their motivations, expectations and experiences during their first donation cycle. Fertility and Sterility. 2010;93(2), 455-466.

McGowan ML, Burant C, Moran R, Farrell RM. Patient education and informed consent for preimplantation genetic diagnosis: health literacy for genetics and assisted reproductive technology. Genetics in Medicine. 2009;11(9), 640-645.

Daniel J. McLinden, EdD Senior Director, Education and Learning Department

Daniel J. McLinden, EdD, is an educational psychologist; his research focuses on structured conceptualization of interventions through multivariate concept mapping, social network analysis to evaluate intervention effects, economic analysis to evaluate investments in human capital development, measurement of sentiments through Rasch models, and the design of learning networks based on open innovation and collaboration principles.

513-636-8933 daniel.mclinden@cchmc.org

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Daniel J. McLinden, EdD

Senior Director, Education and Learning Department

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-8933

Fax 513-636-1695

Email daniel.mclinden@cchmc.org

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Design of collaborative learning environments; educational research methods; program evaluation; economic evaluation

Biography

Daniel McLinden, EdD, is an executive in the Learning and Development Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In this role he has had led multiple teams involved in providing program evaluation, distance learning and broadcast technology managing the learning system infrastructure, and the medical library.

De. McLinden holds a faculty appointment as an assistant professor in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's within the UC Department of Pediatrics. In his faculty role he conducts research, consults with other faculty, teaches in faculty development workshops, advises physicians enrolled in the master’s degree program in medical education and is an associate director for the pediatric fellowship in medical education.

EdD: Educational Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 1988.

Klein M, O’Toole JK, McLinden D, DeWitt TG. Training Tomorrow’s Medical Education Leaders: Creating a General Pediatric Master Educator Fellowship. Journal of Pediatrics. 2013;162(3), 440-441.

McLinden D. Concept maps as network data: Analysis of a concept map using the methods of social network analysis. Evaluation and Program Planning. 2013;36(1), 40-48.

Vaughn LM, Jacquez F, McLinden D. The use of concept mapping to identify school-driven intervention strategies for physical and mental health. Health Promotion Practice. Published online before print October 24, 2012.

Vaughn LM, McLinden DJ, Shellmer D, Baker RC. Parental Health Attributions of Childhood Health and Illness: Development of the Pediatric Cultural Health Attributions Questionnaire (Pedi-CHAQ). Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community. 2011;39, 223–242.

Vaughn LM, McLinden D, Jacquez F, Crosby L, Slater S, Mitchell M. Understanding the Social Networks of Parents of Children with Sickle Cell Disease. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2011; 22(3), 1014-1029.

Goske MJ, Phillips R, Mandel K, McLinden D, Hall S. Image Gently: A Web-based Practice Quality Improvement Program in CT Safety for Children. American Journal of Roentgenology, 2010;194(5), 1177-1182.

McLinden D, Phillips R, Hamlin S, Helbig A. Evaluating the Future Value of Educational Interventions in a Healthcare Setting. Performance Improvement Quarterly. 2010;22(4), 1-11.

McLinden D, Boone W. More than smile sheets: Rasch Analysis of training reactions in a Medical Center. Performance Improvement Quarterly. 2009;22(3), 7-21.

Shavers VL, McDonald P, Fagan P, Lawrence D, McLinden D, Christian M, Trimble T, McCaskill W, Browne D. Barriers to Racial/Ethnic Minority Investigator Application and Successful Competition for NIH Funding. Journal of the National Medical Association. 2005;97(8), 1063 – 1077.

Cragier K, McLinden D, Casper W. Collaborative planning for training impact. Invited article for a special issue on the Contributions of Psychological Research to Human Resource Management. Human Resource Management. 2004;43(4), 337 – 351.

Grants

Pediatric Primary Care Medical Education Fellowship. Associate Director. Health Resources and Services Administration. 2012-2016.

Stephen E. Muething, MD Co-Director, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Stephen E. Muething, MD, is a leader in quality improvement and transformation at Cincinnati Children's. He led improvement work in evidence-based care and patient flow, and was a leader of the team that launched Family-Centered Rounds. He has a special interest in design for reliability and high reliability organization, and plays a key role in several national improvement efforts supplying expertise in improvement science.

513-636-2068 stephen.muething@cchmc.org

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Stephen E. Muething, MD

Co-Director, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence

Vice President for Safety

Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-2068

Fax 513-803-9245

Email stephen.muething@cchmc.org

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Serious safety events reduction; high reliability organization theory; evidence-based care; family centered rounds; decreasing delays in discharge; clinical microsystems

Biography

Dr. Stephen Muething is co-director of the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and professor of pediatrics at The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Muething was recently awarded the Michael and Suzette Fisher Family Chair for Safety at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He now focuses on the strategic goals of Cincinnati Children’s to improve all aspects of care including safety, outcomes, experience and affordability. His improvement work and research focuses on high reliability culture, situation awareness, managing by prediction and lean leadership.

Dr. Muething was one of the founders of the Children’s Hospital Solution for Patient Safety and now serves as strategic advisor. This network, of more than 100 children’s hospitals, is collaborating to eliminate serious harm for all pediatric patients across the United States and Canada. He serves on multiple national pediatric safety groups and is a frequent consultant for regional, national and international safety and quality initiatives. He has lectured in more than a dozen countries.

Dr. Muething started as a solo practitioner and spent the first decade of his clinical career building a pediatric practice and inpatient unit in rural Indiana. He then focused on inpatient systems at Cincinnati Children’s as the first leader of the Hospital Medicine program and was at the forefront of multiple transformations in care delivery including family-centered rounds, systematic adoption of evidence-based practice and inpatient microsystems.

MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1984.

Residency: Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 1984-1987.

Certification: Pediatrics.

Stockwell DC, Bisarya H, Classen DC, Kirkendall ES, Landrigan CP, Lemon V, Tham E, Hyman D, Lehman SM, Searles E, Hall M, Muething SE, Schuster MA, Sharek PJ. A Trigtger Tool To Detect Harm in Pediatric Inpatient Settings. Pediatrics. 2015 June; 135(6) 1036-42.

Lyren A, Brilli R, Bird M, Lashutka N, Muething S. Ohio Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety; A Framework for Pediatric Patient Safety Improvement. J Healthc Qual. 2015 April 9. Epub ahead of print.

Hibbert PD, Hallahan, AR, Muething SE, Lachman P, Hooer TD, Wiles LK, Jaffe A, White L, Wheaton GR, Runciman WB, Dalton S, Williams HM, Braithwaite J. CareTrack Kids-part 3. Adverse events in children’s healthcare in Australia: study protocol for a retrospective medical record review. BMJ Open. 2015 April 8:5(4):e007750.

Brady PW, Zix J, Brilli R, Wheeler DS, Griffith K, Giaccone MJ, Dressman K, Kotagal U, Muething S, Tegtmeyer K. Developing and evaluating the success of a family activated medical emergency team: a quality improvement report. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015 March, 24(3):203-11.

Patrick W Brady, Julie Zix, Richard Brilli, Derek S Wheeler, Kristie Griffith, Mary Jo Giaccone, Kathy Dressman, Uma Kotagal, Stephen Muething, Ken Tegtmeyer. Developing And Evaluating The Success Of A Family Activated Medical Emergency Team: A Quality Improvement Report. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014 Dec 16.

Stockwell DC, Bisarya H, Classen DC, Kirkendall ES, Lachman PI, Matlow AG, Tham E, Hyman D, Lehman SM, Searles E, Muething SE, Sharek PJ. Development of an Electronic Pediatric All-Cause Harm Measurement Tool Using a Modified Delphi Method. J Patient Saf. 2014 Aug 26. Epub ahead of print.

Stephen J. Swensen, James R. Duncan, Rosemary Gibson, Stephen E. Muething, Rebecca LeBuhn, Jean Rexford, Carol Wagner, Stephen R. Smith, Becky DeMers, Richard Morin, John Santa, Charles J. Homer. An Appeal for Safe and Appropriate Imaging of Children. Journal Patient Safety. 2014 Sept; 10(3): 121-4.

Brady PW, Wheeler DS, Muething SE, Kotagal UR. Situation Awareness: A New Mode for Predicting and Preventing Patient Deterioration. Hospital Pediatrics. 2014 May; 4(3): 143-6.

Stockwell, David C.; Kirkendall, Eric; Muething, Stephen E.; Kloppenborg, Elizabeth; Vinodrao, Hima; Jacobs, Brian R. Automated Adverse Event Detection Collaborative: Electronic Adverse Event Identification, Classification, and Corrective Actions Across Academic Pediatric Institutions. J Patient Saf. 2013 Dec; (4):203-10.

Stuart L. Goldstein, Eric Kirkendall, Hovi Nguyen, Joshua K. Schaffzin, John Bucuvalas, Tracey Bracke, Michael Seid, Marshall Ashby, Natalie Foertmeyer, Lori Brunner, Anne Lesko, Cynthia Barclay, Carole Lannon and Stephen Muething. Electronic Health Record Identification of Nephrotoxin Exposure and Associated Acute Kidney Injury. Pediatrics. 2013 August.

Jennifer K. O'Toole, MD, MEd Program Director, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics Residency Program

Jennifer K. O'Toole, MD, MEd, is a pediatric and internal medicine hospitalist and associate residency program director who has research interests in handoffs in care, educational innovation for bedside teaching, teaching residents to care for underserved populations, and faculty development in medical education. She is the site PI for the I-PASS Handoff Study where she leads faculty development efforts and is a member of the education executive committee.

513-803-2009 jennifer.otoole@cchmc.org

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Jennifer K. O'Toole, MD, MEd

Program Director, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics Residency Program

Medical Director of Education and Adult Care, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

UC Department of Internal Medicine

Phone 513-803-2009

Email jennifer.otoole@cchmc.org

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Clinical & Research Interests

Clinical

Adult and pediatric hospital medicine

Research

Handoffs; medical education; patient and family centered care; care of adults in pediatric hospitals

Biography

Dr. Jennifer O’Toole is a pediatric and adult hospitalist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and an associate professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. O’Toole also holds a Master's of Education in curriculum and instruction from the University of Cincinnati College of Education.

Since 2008, Dr. O’Toole has served as the associate director of Cincinnati’s Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program. In addition, she is the program director of the IMSTAR Medical Education Fellowship within the Department of Internal Medicine and medical director of education and adult care for the Division of Hospital Medicine at Cincinnati Children's. She is a graduate of the Academic Pediatric Association’s (APA) Educational Scholars Program and served as member representative on the Executive Committee of the national Medicine-Pediatric Program Directors Association from 2013-2015. She currently serves as co-chair of the APA’s Hospital Medicine Special Interest Group and is a member of the planning committee for the annual Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference.

Her clinical and research interests include resident education, curriculum development and innovation, handoffs, and inpatient care for adults with congenital or complex healthcare needs admitted to pediatric hospitals. She is the site principal investigator for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the I-PASS Institute. She serves as chair of the Educational Executive Committee for the Society of Hospital Medicine’s I-PASS Mentored Implementation Program and is a member of Educational Executive Committee for the Patient and Family Centered I-PASS Study.

BS: Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, 1999.

MD: University of Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, 2003.

Residency: Internal Medicine / Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2007.

Chief Residency: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2008.

MEd: University of Cincinnati College of Education, Cincinnati, OH, 2012.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2007; Internal Medicine, 2008.

Warm EJ, Held J, Hellman M, Kelleher M, Kinnear B, Lee C, O’Toole JK, Mathis B, Mueller C, Sall D, Tolentino J, Schauer D. Entrusting Observable Practice Activities and Milestones Over the 36 Months of an Internal Medicine Residency. Academic Medicine. June 2016.

O’Toole JK, McLinden D, Sucharew H, Dewitt T, Klein MD. A Pilot Study of the Creation and Implementation of a Teaching Development Assessment Tool. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2015 Dec;7(4):638-42.

Kinnear B, O’Toole JK. The Care of Adults in Children’s Hospitals: Acknowledging the Aging Elephant in the Room. JAMA Pediatrics. 2015 Dec;169(12):1081-1082.

Auger K, Jerardi K, Simmons J, Davis M, O’Toole JK, Sucharew H. It's Complicated: Overcoming Statistical Challenges of Group Learning in Medical Education Research. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2015 Sep;7(3):326-330.

O’Toole JK, Friedland A, Gonzaga AM, Hartig JR, Holliday S, Lukela M, Moutsios SA, Kolarik R. The Practice Patterns of Recently Graduated Internal Medicine-Pediatric Hospitalists. Hospital Pediatrics. 2015 June;5(6):309-314.

O’Toole J, Bismilla Z, Everhart J. The I-PASS Handoff Program: A Standardized Approach to Transitions of Care That Improves Patient Safety. Academic Internal Medicine Insight. 2015 April;13(1).

Starmer A, Spector N, Srivastava R, West D, Rosenbluth G, Allen A, Noble E, Tse L, Dalal A, Keohane C, Lipsitz S, Rothschild J, Wien M, Yoon C, Zigmont K, Wilson K, O’Toole JK, et al. Changes in Medical Errors after Implementation of a Handoff Program. New England Journal of Medicine. 2014 Nov 6;371(19):1803-1812.

Solan L, Yau C, Sucharew H, O’Toole JK. A Structured Multi-Disciplinary Handoff Improves Communication. Hospital Pediatrics. 2014 Sept 1;4(5):311-315.

Starmer A, O’Toole JK, Rosenbluth G, Calaman S, et al. The I-PASS Resident Handoff Curriculum: An Innovative Multi-site Initiative to Improve Patient Handoffs. Academic Medicine. 2014 June;89(6):876-884.

O’Toole JK, West D, Starmer A, Yu C, et al. Placing Faculty Development “Front and Center” in a Multi-site Educational Initiative: Lessons from the I-PASS Handoff Study. Academic Pediatrics. 2014 May;14(3):221-224.

Grants

Bringing I-PASS to the Bedside: A Communication Bundle to Improve Patient Safety and Experience. Site Principal Investigator. Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Jan 2014–Dec 2016.

Christopher B. Peltier, MD Co-Director, Section of Community Pediatrics

Christopher B. Peltier, MD, is a community pediatrician whose academic interest focuses on community-based teaching of pediatric residents and medical students. He also has an interest in faculty educator development.

513-636-2758 chris.peltier@cchmc.org

Judith R. Ragsdale, MDiv, PhD Director, Education & Research, Pastoral Care

513-636-8913 judy.ragsdale@cchmc.org

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Judith R. Ragsdale, MDiv, PhD

Director, Education & Research, Pastoral Care

Academic Affiliation

Phone 513-636-8913

Email judy.ragsdale@cchmc.org

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BA: College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

MDiv: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY, 1984.

PhD: Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH, 2008.

Ordination: United Church of Christ, 2000.

Certification: Supervisor, Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, 1990.

Ragsdale JR, Hegner MA, Mueller M, Davies S. Identifying Religious and/or Spiritual Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults Receiving Blood and Marrow Transplants: A Prospective Qualitative Study. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 2914 20(8):1242-7.

Ragsdale JR, Vaughn LM, Klein M. Characterizing the adequacy, effectiveness, and barriers related to research mentorship among junior pediatric hospitalists and general pediatricians at a large academic institution. Hospital Pediatrics. 2014 4(2):93-8.

Ragsdale JR, Steele-Pierce ME, Bergeron C, Scrivener WE. Mutually Engaged Supervisory Processes: A Proposed Theory for ACPE Supervisory Education. Journal of Pastoral Care Counseling. 2012 160;66(3).

Ragsdale JR, Coulter-McDonald MY. The Discernment Unit as a Tool in the Applicant Selection Process in Supervisory Clinical Pastoral Education. Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry. 2012 32.

Ragsdale JR, Holloway EL, Ivy SS. Educating CPE supervisors: a grounded theory study. The Journal Of Pastoral Care & Counseling: JPCC. 2009 63(3-4):10-11-14.

Zeina Samaan, MD Medical Director, Pediatric Primary Care Center and Hopple Street Health Center

Zeina Samaan, MD, is a primary care pediatrician whose research interests include primary care quality improvement which include improvement of childhood immunization rate, improvement of influenza vaccination rate in high risk pediatric patients, preventing medical errors in primary care setting, development screening and autism initiatives. She also focuses on the use of electronic health record to deliver quality of care; implemented flu alert using EHR to improve the rate of flu vaccinations.

513-636-8954 zeina.samaan@cchmc.org

Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE Director, Division of Hospital Medicine

Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE, focuses on improving the efficiency and quality of care of children hospitalized with common, serious infections such as pneumonia and meningitis. Ongoing projects include studies of comparative effectiveness of different antibiotics for childhood pneumonia and developing novel databases to conduct comparative effectiveness research. He receives research support from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

513-636-6222 samir.shah@cchmc.org

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Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE

Director, Division of Hospital Medicine

Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-6222

Email samir.shah@cchmc.org

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Pediatric infectious diseases; pediatric hospital medicine; community-acquired pneumonia; bacterial meningitis; observational study designs; administrative data sources

Biography

Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE, is a pediatric infectious diseases and pediatric hospital medicine physician whose research focuses on improving the efficiency and quality of care of children, particularly those hospitalized with common, serious infections such as pneumonia and meningitis. Ongoing projects include studying the comparative effectiveness of different antibiotics in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and developing novel databases to conduct comparative effectiveness research.

Dr. Shah served as associate chair of the National Pneumonia Guidelines Committee, jointly sponsored by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. He is also vice chair of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network, a hospital-based research network with >120 hospital members and >$26 million in extramural research funding over the past 8 years.

Dr. Shah is senior deputy editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the official journal of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He also serves as founding associate editor of the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and on the editorial board of JAMA Pediatrics. In addition, he is editor or co-editor of nine books in the fields of pediatrics and infectious diseases, including The Philadelphia Guide: Inpatient Pediatrics (McGraw-Hill Education), and Symptom-Based Diagnosis in Pediatrics (McGraw-Hill Education).

Dr. Shah has received several prestigious research awards, including the Society of Hospital Medicine Excellence in Research Award, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Young Investigator Award, the Society of Hospital Medicine Teamwork in Quality Improvement Award, and the Academic Pediatric Association's Miller-Sarkin Mentoring Award.

BA: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1993.

MD: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 1998.

Residency: Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2001.

Fellowship: Pediatric Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2005; Academic General Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

MSCE: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2007.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2001, 2008; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 2005.

Mittal V, Hall M, Morse R, Wilson KM, Mussman G, Hain P, Montalbano A, Parikh K, Mahant S, Shah SS. Impact of institutional bronchiolitis clinical practice guideline implementation on tests and treatments. J Pediatr. 2014;165:570-576.

Neuman MI, Hall M, Gay JC, Blaschke AJ, Williams DJ, Parikh K, Hersh AL, Brogan TV, Gerber JS, Grijalva CG, Shah SS. Readmissions among children previously hospitalized with pneumonia. Pediatrics. 2014;134:100-109.

Queen MA, Myers AL, Hall M, Shah SS, Williams DJ, Auger KA, Jerardi KE, Statile AM, Tieder JS. Comparative effectiveness of empiric antibiotics for children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. Pediatrics. 2014;133:e23-e29.

Williams DJ, Hall M, Shah SS, Parikh K, Tyler A, Neuman MI, Hersh AL, Brogan TV, Blaschke AJ, Grijalva CG. Narrow vs. broad-spectrum antimicrobial therapy for children hospitalized with pneumonia. Pediatrics. 2013;132:e1141-e1148.

Florin TA, French B, Zorc JJ, Alpern ER, Shah SS. Variation in emergency department diagnostic testing and association with outcomes in children with community-acquired pneumonia. Pediatrics. 2013;132:237-244.

Myers AL, Hall M, Tieder JS, Jerardi K, Auger K, Wiggleton C, Statile A, Williams DJ, McClain L, Shah SS. Prevalence of bacteremia in hospitalized pediatric patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Pediatr Infect Dis. J 2013;32:736-740.

Blaschke AJ, Byington CL, Ampofo K, Pavia AT, Heyrend C, Rankin SC, McGowan KL, Harris MC, Shah SS. Species-specific PCR improves detection of bacterial pathogens in parapneumonic empyema compared with 16S PCR and culture. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013;32:302-303.

Neuman MI, Hall M, Hersh AL, Brogan TV, Parikh K, Newland JG, Blaschke AJ, Williams DJ, Grijalva CG, Tyler A, Shah SS. Influence of hospital guidelines on management of children hospitalized with pneumonia. Pediatrics. 2012;130:e823-e830.

Ambroggio LV, Taylor JA, Tabb LP, Newschaffer CJ, Evans AA, Shah SS. Comparative effectiveness of beta-lactam monotherapy and beta-lactam-macrolide combination therapy in children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. J Pediatr. 2012;161:1097-1103.

Brogan TV, Hall M, Williams DJ, Neuman MI, Grijalva CG, Farris RWD, Shah SS. Variability in processes of care and outcomes among children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012;31:1036-1041.

Grants

Understanding quality and costs in congenital heart surgery. Co-Investigator. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). April 2014-March 2019.

Improving post-discharge outcomes by facilitating family-centered transitions from hospital to home. Principal Investigator. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. May 2014-Jan 2017.

Comparative effectiveness of home intravenous vs. oral antibiotic therapy for serious bacterial infections. Site Principal Investigator. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Jan 2013-Jan 2016.

Jeffery M. Simmons, MD, MSc Associate Director of Quality, Division of Hospital Medicine

Jeffrey M. Simmons, MD, MSc, is a pediatric hospitalist who uses classical clinical research methods and quality improvement science to accelerate the integration of research findings into the general inpatient wards. He focuses on better understanding socioeconomic disparities among children hospitalized for asthma and on redesigning the clinical care system to better address those disparities. He also directs the fellowship in pediatric hospital medicine.

513-636-6601 jeffrey.simmons@cchmc.org

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Jeffery M. Simmons, MD, MSc

Associate Director of Quality, Division of Hospital Medicine

Associate Safety Officer, James M. Anderson Center for Health Services Excellence

Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-6601

Fax 513-803-9245

Email jeffrey.simmons@cchmc.org

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Clinical & Research Interests

Clinical

Quality improvement of care for underserved children with asthma; improving care delivery and medical education through family-centered care; resident and fellow education in pediatric hospital medicine

Research

Predictors of hospital readmission for asthma; interventions to decrease rates of admission and readmission for asthma; measuring the impact of material hardship on health outcomes

Biography

Jeffrey M. Simmons, MD, MSc, is finishing an NRSA research fellowship and master's degree in clinical epidemiology. He has obtained both internal and external funding to complete his fellowship asthma cohort project, and plans to pursue further external funding. He intends to blend health services and quality improvement methods to study inpatient care delivery and transitions in care. Clinically, Dr. Simmons works on the General Inpatient Service (GIS) as a pediatric hospitalist. He serves as the associate director of GIS, focusing on developing the group’s research program and fellowship training program.

MD: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 2000.

Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2000-2003.

Chief Residency: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003-2004.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2003.

Heidi J. Sucharew, PhD

Heidi J. Sucharew, PhD, is a biostatistician with research interests in structural equation modeling, latent profile analysis, and latent variable modeling. Her recent areas of application include infant neurobehavior, stroke severity, adolescent menstrual symptoms and depression, and glucose control during pregnancy.

513-803-1920 Heidi.Sucharew@cchmc.org

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Heidi J. Sucharew, PhD

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-1920

Email Heidi.Sucharew@cchmc.org

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Structural equation modeling; latent profile analysis; latent variable modeling

Biography

Dr. Sucharew is a biostatistician with research interests in structural equation modeling, latent profile analysis, and latent variable modeling. Her recent areas of application include infant neurobehavior and stroke severity. Areas of applied research interest include infant neurobehavioral outcomes, stroke severity, and environmental exposures. To date, she has authored over 35 publications and has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences. Dr. Sucharew has been very active as a teacher. She contributes to the biostatistics and epidemiology modules of the Pediatrics Fellowship Core curriculum. She has also developed and is the primary instructor of "Introduction to Biostatistics" online course and has served as an invited lecturer in "Design and Management of Field Studies in Epidemiology" in the graduate program in biostatistics and epidemiology in the Department of Environmental Health.

BA: Statistics, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, 2000.

MS: Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002.

PhD: Biostatistics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2009.

Sucharew H, Khoury J, Moomaw CH, Alwell K, Kissela BM, Belagaje S, Adeoye O, Khatri P, Woo D, Flaherty ML, Ferioli S, Heitsch L, Broderick JP, Kleindorfer D. Profiles of the National Institutes of Health stroke scale items as a predictor of patient outcome. Stroke. 44(9):2381-7. 2013.

Sucharew H, Khoury JC, Rao MB, Succop P, Bernstein D, Ryan PH, LeMasters G. Predicting allergic disease at age four using an atopy predisposition score at age two: the application of Item Response Theory. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 23(2):195-201. 2012.

Sucharew H, Khoury JC, Xu Y, Succop P, Yolton K. NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale profiles predict developmental outcomes in a low-risk sample. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 26(4):344-52. 2012.

VanDyke R, Ren Y, Sucharew H, Miodovnik M, Rosenn B, Khoury JC. Characterizing maternal glycemic control: a more informative approach using semiparametric regression. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med, 25(1):15-9. 2012.

Mackey J, Kleindorfer DO, Sucharew H, Moomaw CJ, Kissela BM, Alwell K, Flaherty ML, Woo D, Khatri P, Adeoye O, Ferioli S, Khoury JC, Hornung R, Broderick JP. Population-based study of wake-up strokes. Neurology. 76(19):1662-7. 2011.

Sucharew H, Ryan PH, Bernstein D, Succop P, Khurana Hershey GK, Lockey J, Villareal M, Reponen T, Grinshpun S, LeMasters G. Exposure to traffic exhaust and night cough during early childhood: the CCAAPS birth cohort. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 21(2): 253-9. 2010.

Lerner S, Tangen C, Sucharew H, Wood D, Crawford ED. Failure to achieve a complete response to induction BCG therapy is associated with increased risk of disease worsening and death in patients with high risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Urol Oncol. 27(2), 155-159. 2009.

Lerner S, Tangen C, Sucharew H, Wood D, Crawford ED. Patterns of recurrence and outcomes following bacillus calmette-guerin for high risk TA, T1 bladder cancer. J Urol. 177(5), 1727-1731. 2007.

Sucharew H, Goss CH, Millard SP, Ramsey B. Respiratory adverse event profiles in placebo subjects in short and long-term inhaled therapy trials. Contemp Clin Trials. 27(6), 561-70. 2006.

Brody AS, Sucharew H, Campbell JD, Millard SP, Molina PL, Klein JS, Quan J. Computed tomography correlates with pulmonary exacerbations in children with cystic fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 172(9), 1128-32. 2005.

Grants

Improving post-discharge outcomes by facilitating family-centered transitions from hospital to home. Biostatistician. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. July 2014–June 2017.

Gregory A. Szumlas, MD, FAAP

Gregory A. Szumlas, MD, FAAP, is a primary care pediatrician who focuses on quality improvement in chronic disease management, particularly asthma. He also focuses on literacy, including early literacy promotion and health literacy.

513-636-4506 greg.szumlas@cchmc.org

Michael T. Vossmeyer, MD Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Michael T. Vossmeyer, MD, is a hospitalist who is interested in family-centered care, situation awareness and clinical quality improvement.

513-636-1956 mike.vossmeyer@cchmc.org

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Michael T. Vossmeyer, MD

Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-1956

Fax 513-803-9245

Email mike.vossmeyer@cchmc.org

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Patient and family centered care

Biography

Michael Vossmeyer, MD, has participated in the development of the hospitalist program at Cincinnati Children's. He was instrumental in developing and spreading family-centered rounding at Cincinnati Children's and has made numerous invited presentations on the subject. He was co-designer of the Pediatric Early Warning System and collaborated in its implementation and dissemination. Currently he is working to increase collaboration between community physicians who admit and care for their patients and the hospitalist faculty.

MD: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1979.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1982.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1987.

Reaves L, Hamilton S, Vossmeyer M, Brady R. Fever, rash and migratory polyarthralgia. Contemporary Pediatrics. 2010;27(3):24-38.

Tucker KM, Brewer TL, Baker RB, Demeritt B, Vossmeyer MT. Prospective evaluation of a pediatric inpatient early warning scoring system. J Spec Pediatr Nurs. 2009 Apr;14(2):79-85.

Book Chapters

Vossmeyer M, Cheng G, Monzack D, Patel A. The approach to the hospitalized child and patient. In Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, L. Zaoutis, V. Chiang (Eds.). Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier, 2007.

Christine M. White, MD, MAT Associate Chief of Staff

Christine M. White, MD, MAT, is an associate professor for the UC Department of Pediatrics. Dr. White's interests and research focus on quality improvement. She has led efforts to increase medication reconciliation completion. She is currently leading institute-wide improvement projects on improving capacity management and the patient/family experience.

513-803-0926 christine.white@cchmc.org

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Christine M. White, MD, MAT

Associate Chief of Staff

Medical Director, Division of Hospital Medicine, Burnet Campus

Medical Director, Destination Excellence

Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-0926

Fax 513-803-9245

Email christine.white@cchmc.org

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Pediatric hospital medicine; quality improvement

Biography

Christine White, MD, MAT, is an associate professor for the UC Department of Pediatrics and the medical director for the Division of Hospital Medicine, Burnet Campus, General Pediatric Hospitalist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. White is a graduate of the University of Missouri Columbia School Of Medicine. She completed her residency in pediatrics and chief residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. White's interests and research focus on quality improvement. She has led hospital-wide efforts to increase medication reconciliation completion. She is currently leading institute-wide improvement projects on improving capacity management and the patient/family experience. In 2010, she was the recipient of the Faculty Teacher of the Year Award.

MD: University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, 2004.

Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2007.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2007.

Brady PW, Muething S, Kotagal U, Ashby M, Gallagher R, Hall D, Goodfriend M, White C, Bracke TM, Decastro V, Geiser M, Simon J, Tucker KM, Olivea J, Conway PH, Wheeler DS. Improving situation awareness to reduce unrecognized clinical deterioration and serious safety events. Pediatrics. 2013 Jan;131(1):e298-303.

White CM, Statile AM, Conway PH, Schoettker PJ, Solan JG, Unaka NI, Vidwan N, Warrick SD, Connelly BL. Utilizing Improvement Science Methods to Improve Physician Compliance with Proper Hand Hygiene. Pediatrics. 2012 Apr;129(4):e1042-50.

White CM, Schoettker PJ, Conway PH, Geiser M, Olivea J, Pruett R, Kotagal UR. Utilising improvement science methods to optimise medication reconciliation. BMJ Quality and Safety. 2011 Apr;20(4):372-80.

White C, Del Rey JG. Decreasing Adverse Events through Night Talks: An Interdisciplinary, Hospital-Based Quality Improvement Project. Permanente Journal. 2009 Fall;13(4):16-22.

Kimberly Yolton, PhD

Kimberly Yolton, PhD, is a developmental psychologist researching the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposures to environmental toxicants (i.e. tobacco smoke, pesticides, and industrial chemicals) on neurobehavioral outcomes during infancy and childhood. She is also involved in research on neurobehavioral outcomes of high risk infants.

Visit the Yolton Lab.

513-636-2815 kimberly.yolton@cchmc.org

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Kimberly Yolton, PhD

Academic Affiliations

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-636-2815

Email kimberly.yolton@cchmc.org

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Infant and child development and behavior; environmental exposures

Visit the Yolton Lab.

Biography

Kimberly Yolton, PhD, was formerly the director of a follow-up clinic serving high-risk infants and young children. She has extensive experience with infants and children who were prenatally exposed to substances of abuse, were born prematurely or at low birth weight, or who come from disadvantaged home environments. She was involved in the initial development of the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS), a neurobehavioral assessment tool used with healthy and high-risk newborns. She is certified to train others in the proper administration, scoring, and interpretation of the NNNS and has used the tool for clinical, research, and teaching purposes locally, nationally, and internationally. She is currently using the NNNS to study subtle differences in the neurobehavior of newborns who have been prenatally exposed to environmental toxicants such as tobacco smoke, plastics (phthalates and bisphenol A), insecticides, and mercury.

Dr. Yolton’s current research focuses on the impact of exposure to common environmental toxicants on developmental and behavioral outcomes from infancy through childhood. Her research has demonstrated associations between exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy and in childhood and cognitive deficits, behavior problems, and sleep difficulties in infants and children. She has also published findings regarding associations between plastics, and organophosphate pesticides and early infant neurobehavior. Work in progress includes examination of the impact of methyl mercury, air pollution, flame retardants (PBDEs), and perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) on neurobehavioral outcomes. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI).

Dr. Yolton came to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as a postdoctoral fellow in pediatric environmental health in 2000 and joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2003. She earned her master's degree in family and child development from Virginia Tech, and her doctoral degree in child development and developmental psychology from The Ohio State University.

PhD: Family Relations & Human Development, Developmental Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1992.

Fellowship: Pediatric Environmental Health, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2000-2003.

Yolton K, Xu Y, Sucharew H, Succop P, Altaye M, Popelar A, Montesano MA, Calafat AM, Khoury JC. Impact of low-level gestational exposure to organophosphate pesticides on neurobehavior in early infancy: a prospective study. Environmental Health. 2013; 12:79-88.

Beebe DW, Rausch J, Byars KC, Lanphear B, Yolton K. Persistent snoring in preschool children: Predictors and behavioral and developmental correlates. Pediatrics. 2012; 130:382-389.

Byars K, Yolton K, Rausch J, Lanphear B, Beebe DW. Sleep During Early Development: A Longitudinal Study of the Prevalence, Patterns, and Persistence of Sleep Problems in the First 3 Years of Life. Pediatrics. 2012; 129:1-9.

Yolton K, Xu Y, Strauss D, Altaye M, Calafat A, Khoury J. Prenatal Exposure to Bisphenol A and Phthalates and Infant Neurobehavior. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 2011; 33:558-566.

Yolton K, Xu Y, Khoury J, Succop P, Lanphear B, Beebe D, Owens J. Associations between second hand smoke exposure and sleep patterns in children. Pediatrics. 2010; 125:e261-e268.

Yolton K, Khoury J, Xu Y, Succop P, Lanphear B, Bernert J, Lester B. Low-Level Prenatal Exposure to Nicotine and Infant Neurobehavior. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 2009; 31:356-363.

Yolton K, Khoury J, Hornung R, Dietrich K, Succop P, Lanphear B. Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Child Behaviors. Journal of Devel and Behav Pediatrics. 2008; 29:456-463

Lanphear BP, Hornung R, Khoury J, Yolton K, Baghurst P, Bellinger D, Canfield RL, Dietrich KN, Bornschien R, Greene T, Rothenberg SJ, Needleman HL, Schnaas L, Wasserman G, Graziano J, Roberts R. Low-level environmental lead exposure and children’s intellectual function: an international pooled analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005; 113:894-899.

Dietrich K, Eskenazi B, Schantz S, Yolton K, Rauh V, Johnson C, Alkon A, Canfield R, Pessah I, Berman R. Principles and practices of neurodevelopmental assessment in children: Lessons learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005; 113:1437-1446.

Yolton K, Dietrich K, Auinger P, Lanphear BP, Hornung R. Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Cognitive Abilities among US Children and Adolescents. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2005; 113:98-103.

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