Who's This?

Dr. William Schubert made an indelible imprint on Cincinnati Children’s as a pediatrician, researcher and leader.

1978

Cure

Cincinnati Children’s researchers William Schubert, MD, and John Partin, MD, identify the unique morphological symptoms of Reye’s syndrome, a rare but deadly disease that can damage the liver and brain. Reye’s syndrome usually occurs in children who’ve recently had a viral infection such as chickenpox or the flu; taking aspirin to treat the illness greatly increases the risk of getting Reye’s.

Video still from interview with Dr. William Shubert.

Known as “the grand statesman of pediatrics,” Dr. William Shubert held nearly every major leadership position at the medical center, including president and CEO. When he retired in 1996, he continued to serve on the board of trustees. In 1991, he is was interviewed for the hospital’s oral history project. Watch the video.

Who's This?

Robin Cotton, MD, examines Bernardo Tamez, who came from Mexico for tracheal reconstruction in 1989.

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Internationally renowned surgeon Robin Cotton, MD, developed a tracheal reconstruction procedure that has saved thousands of children from a lifetime dependence on a tracheotomy tube to help them breathe. He designed and tested a new technique called laryngotracheoplasty (LTP), which he performed for the first time at Cincinnati Children’s in 1974. He was instrumental in creating the Aerodigestive and Sleep Center, a unique interdisciplinary center that treats children with complex airway, pulmonary, sleep, feeding and digestive disorders.

1973

Community

Five organizations — the Adolescent Clinic, the Dental Clinic, the Convalescent Hospital, the Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders and United Cerebral Palsy — consolidate with Cincinnati Children’s to form the Children’s Hospital Medical Center, a single destination for families to access comprehensive medical and psychosocial services for their children.

Community

Cincinnati Children’s leadership agrees to become the area’s only pediatric hospital, thus accepting the responsibility of caring for all children, regardless of the family’s ability to pay. Previously, most unpaid cases had gone to General Hospital (now University Hospital).

1972

Care

Marilyn Gaston, MD, creates the sickle cell disease program at Cincinnati Children’s. She would go on to become an assistant surgeon general and rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service, and her research would lead to nationwide newborn screening that has helped reduce sickle cell-related deaths significantly.

Through her research in the early detection and treatment of sickle cell disease, Marilyn Gaston, MD (right), helped dramatically reduce the impact of a disease that disproportionately affects African Americans. Though the risk is now much reduced, the disease still occurs in one out of every 365 African-American children.

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