2018 Research Annual Report
Education and Training

Education and Training

Pediatric Scientist Development Program

This NICHD-funded program provides intensive training to prepare entry-level faculty for research careers in academic pediatrics.

Year Recipients
2017 7
2018 5

T-32 Fellowships

The NIH provides these institutional grants to support research training opportunities at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels. Cincinnati Children's received funding for these T32 programs in FY2018:

Division PI Name Reference Award # Dates
Allergy Co-PI: David I. Bernstein, MD, MA and Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD T32 AI060515 9/1/04 to 8/31/19
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology Kevin Hommel, PhD T32 HD068223 5/1/12 to 4/30/22
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology Co-PI: Scott Powers, PhD, ABPP, FAHS and Meg Zeller, PhD T32 DK063929 7/1/03 to 6/30/18
Clinical Pharmacology Alexander Vinks, PharmD, PhD, FCP T32 HD069054 5/1/11 to 4/30/21
Critical Care Co-PI: Alex Lentsch, PhD, and Hector Wong, MD T32 GM008478 7/1/93 to 6/30/18
Gastroenterology Lee Denson, MD T32 DK007727 1/1/95 to 6/30/20
Immunology David A. Hildeman, PhD T32 AI118697 7/1/16 to 6/30/21
Molecular Cardiovascular Biology Jeffery Molkentin, PhD T32 HL125204 12/1/14 to 11/30/19
Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology Jeffery Whitsett, MD T32 HL007752 7/15/94 to 6/30/19
Nephrology Prasad Devarajan, MD T32 DK007695 7/15/92 to 6/30/19
Neurology Charles Vorhees, PhD T32 ES007051 7/1/77 to 6/30/19
Rheumatology Alexei A. Grom, MD T32 AR069512 5/1/16 to 4/30/21

Arnold W. Strauss Fellow Award

The Arnold W. Strauss Fellow Award is a one-year $10,000 funding opportunity instituted in 2014 in honor of Dr. Strauss' tireless advocacy of higher education at Cincinnati Children's.

Clinical/Research Fellow Name Division Mentor Project
Clinical Laura Agresta, MD Hematology/Oncology Edith Janssen, PhD "CD244 Signaling in Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Mediates Inhibition of CD8+ T-cells"
Clinical Laura Bauman, MD Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Lee Denson, MD "Host: Microbe Signature for Refractory Ulcerative Colitis" 
Clinical Emily Smitherman, MD Rheumatology Esi Morgan, MD, MSCE "Developing a Best Practice Treatment Bundle for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis"
Research David Ohayon, PhD Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE) Stephen Waggoner, PhD "Synergistic induction of NK cell IFN-y and TNF-a in COPD"
Research Rie Ouchi, PhD Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition  Takanori Takebe, MD "Modeling inflammation and fibrosis with human iPSC-derived multicellular liver organoid"
Research Sonia Singh, PhD Molecular Cardiovascular Biology Jeffrey Robbins, PhD "Jak1 and cardiac disease"

Research Fellows

Department Name # of Fellows
Allergy and Immunology 5
Anesthesiology 3
Asthma Research 2
Biomedical Informatics 1
Center for Autoimmune Genetics and Etiology 2
Cardiology 2
Cardiothoracic Surgery 2
Chronobiology 3
Clinical Pharmacology 2
Developmental Biology 22
Endocrinology 3
Experimental Hematology 28
Fetal Therapy 2
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition 9
General and Community Pediatrics 1
Hematology 1
Human Genetics 3
Imaging Research 1
Immunobiology 13
Infectious Diseases 3
Molecular Cardiovascular Biology 20
Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology 5
Neurology 3
Oncology 3
Ophthalmology 2
Orthopaedics 
Pathology 2
Patient Services 1
Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery 3
Plastic Surgery 
Pulmonary Medicine 13 
Rehabilitation Medicine
Reproductive Sciences 6
Sports Medicine 2
Total 172

Clinical Fellows

Department Name # of Fellows Department Name   # of Fellows
Adolescent Medicine 4 Neonatology 16
  +Transition Medicine
  + Academic Research in Neonatology
Allergy/Immunology 6 Nephrology
8
Anesthesia 11   + Academic Research in Nephrology and Hypertension 1
  + ABA Alternate Pathway
  + Acute Care Nephrology and Dialysis 1
  + Advanced Fellowship in Quality Improvement & Safety
Neurology
  + Advanced Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship in Education
  + Pediatric Epilepsy 2
  + International Pediatric Anesthesiology 3   + Headache Medicine 2
  + Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring
  + Neonatal Neurology 1
  + Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia
Neurosurgery 1
Cardiology 14 Ophthalmology 1
  + Adult & Adolescent Congenital Heart Disease
Orthopaedics 3
  + Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation 2   + Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery 1
  + Cardiac Electrophysiology 1 Otolaryngology 6
  + Cardiac Imaging 1 Pain Medicine 2
  + Cardiac Intensive Care 2 Pathology
  + Fetal Cardiology
Plastic Surgery 1
  + Interventional Cardiac Cath 1 Psychiatry 7
  + Preventive Cardiology 1 Psychology 24
Child Abuse 2 Pulmonary 9
Congenital Cardiac Surgery 2   + Genetic Pulmonary Disease 1
Critical Care 13 Radiology 8
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics 4   + Body MRI
Emergency Medicine 15   + Interventional Radiology 1
Endocrinology 10   + Musculoskeletal Imaging
Gastroenterology 12   + Pediatric Neuroradiology 2
  + Motility Disorders 1 Rehabilitation Medicine 4
  + Pediatric Advanced Nutrition   Rheumatology 
  + Pediatric Transplant Hepatology 1 Sleep Disorder Medicine 2
Division of General Pediatrics
Sports Medicine 2
  + Pediatric Master Educator
Surgery 2
  + Pediatric Primary Care Research 3   + Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology
3
Genetics, Medical and Genomics 1   + Colorectal Surgery 1
  + Clinical Biochemical Genetics
  + ECMO
  + Clinical Cytogenetics 3   + Fetal Surgery 1
  + Clinical Molecular Genetics
  + Pediatric International Surgical Fellow 1
Hematology/Oncology 16   + Trauma Surgery
1
  + Bone Marrow Transplant 1   + Vascular Anomalies 2
  + Clinical Immunodeficiency
Urology  
2
  + Neuro-Oncology 1   + International Pediatric Urology Fellow
3
  + Sickle Cell Disease
1   
Hospice and Palliative Care 1    
Hospital Medicine 7    
Infectious Disease 4    
Total Clinical Fellows 272

Graduate Programs

Program Number of students
Biomedical Informatics - PhD students 13
Biomedical Informatics - Graduate Certificate 10
Immunology - PhD students 32
Immunology - MS students 7
Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) 63
Biomedical Research Technologies - MS students 13
Molecular and Developmental Biology - PhD students 54

Residents

Division Number of Residents
Pediatrics 121
Medicine/Pediatrics 28
Rehabilitation Medicine 4
Psychology 5
Psychiatry/Child Psychiatry/Pediatrics 15
Human Genetics/Pediatrics 6
Neuro/Pediatrics 24
Dental  12 
Dermatology 10 UC Dermatology/17 Cincinnati Children's Pediatric Resident Rotators
Anesthesia 16 Rotating
Surgery (Includes General Surgery, Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology, Cardiothoracic, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Plastic, Orthopedic and Urology) 147 Rotating
Radiology 53 Rotating

Summer Students

Name Number
High School Interns
 + Biomedical Research Internship for Minority Students (BRIMS) 15
 + High School Senior Summer Internship Program 11
Undergraduate Students 175
 + Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 128
Medical Students 11
 + Summer Medical Student Respiratory Research Fellowship 10