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(From the September 2025 issue of MedStat) 

Carlo Di Lorenzo, MD, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

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Carlo Di Lorenzo, MD, has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Neurogastroenterlogy and Motility Society (ANMS) during its annual meeting in August. ANMS is a national organization that brings together experts — both pediatric and adult — in the field of neurogastroenterology, fostering excellence in research, education, training and patient care.

Dr. Di Lorenzo is currently the chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Nationwide Children’s and is a professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. He also holds the Robert F. and Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology. His academic work focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the gut-brain interaction and motility disorders in children.

He has published more than 400 peer-review and invited manuscripts and co-authored the only four books dedicated to pediatric gastrointestinal motility. Dr. Di Lorenzo has served as president of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) and has held leadership positions within ANMS, the Brain-Gut Club, the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Board of Pediatrics.

Widely regarded as the pre-eminent international expert in treating children with neurogastroenterology and motility disorders, Dr. Di Lorenzo chaired both Rome III and Rome IV Child-Adolescent committees and currently co-chairs one of the Rome V committees. His accolades include the Master Award in Gastroenterology from the American Gastroenterological Association, the International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders Clinical Research in Pediatrics Award, the Rome Foundation/Torsoli Foundation Award and the NASPGHAN Shwachman Award.

Forbes’ 2025 List of America’s Best Employers for Women

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Nationwide Children’s has ranked in the top 10 and recognized as the top employer in Ohio on Forbes’ 2025 America’s Best Employers for Women list. The recognition is based on a survey of 140,000 women working at U.S. companies with at least 1,000 employees. Nationwide Children’s earned a spot among the top 10 out of 700 companies evaluated.

Alicia Rodgers, DO, MS, Awarded 2025 Outstanding Resident of the Year Award in Pediatrics

Alicia Rodgers

Alicia Rodgers, DO, MS, a Nationwide Children’s resident physician specializing in child abuse, has been named the 2025 Outstanding Resident of the Year in Pediatrics by the American Osteopathic Foundation and the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians. This prestigious award recognizes Dr. Rodgers’ dedication to pediatric care, clinical excellence and compassionate advocacy for child abuse prevention.

Ivana Stojkic, MD, MS, Awarded CARRA Grant for Rheumatology Research

Ivana Stojkic

Nationwide Children’s Rheumatologist Dr. Ivana was awarded one of Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA)-Arthritis Foundation Grant Program to further research and discovery in pediatric rheumatology.

Dr. Stojkic’s work lays the groundwork for more individualized treatments for patients with kidney disease caused by anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis, which leads to kidney failure in about 25% of patients. Her team uses cutting edge genetic technologies to better understand the root causes of kidney damage in these patients. Dr. Stojkic will examine proteins from urine of patients to see which proteins are associated with kidney inflammation and the risk of end-stage kidney disease. This builds on her previous research looking at genetic expression of kidney tissue in AAGN, which provided evidence that immune cells play an important role. Read more online about this important work.

Entrepreneurship Educational Sessions From the Innovation Center

The Innovation Center at Nationwide Children’s kicked off its Entrepreneurship Bootcamp on August 8. This three-month course is designed to strengthen the commercial readiness of concepts by overviewing customer discovery, market validation, regulatory strategies and funding opportunities.

These free educational lectures are open to Nationwide Children’s employees and focus on technology commercialization. Sessions are led by guest lecturers and employees can register on ANCHOR. Lectures will be held from noon to 12:45 p.m. via a Microsoft Teams. A calendar invite with the meeting link will be sent upon registration.

Upcoming sessions:

  • Friday September 19 – Medical Device Regulatory Overview
  • Friday, October 3 – Intellectual Property
  • Friday October 17 – Timeline and Milestones

Recordings of each session will be available on the Innovation Center ANCHOR page. For more information, contact NIC@NationwideChildrens.org.