![In later years, as renovations took place, some of these decorative features were covered over, only to be rediscovered later.](/-/media/Cincinnati-Childrens/Home/about/history/our-history/1940-49/timeline-group/1945-Katherine-Dodd.jpg?iar=0&mh=864&mw=960&hash=3EDDBDA15A57210BD570D815772CE165)
Katie Dodd, MD, was often accompanied on rounds by community pediatricians, as well as residents.
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Katherine (Katie) Dodd, MD, was hospital president Dr. Ashley Weech’s first full-time appointment in 1943. Often cited as the best clinical teacher in the history of Cincinnati Children’s, she went on to become the first woman to Chair a Department of Pediatrics. She left Cincinnati Children’s in 1952 to take the position at the Children’s Hospital of Arkansas.