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School Based Asthma Therapy Helping Students Better Manage Asthma
When 9-year-old Anila, who attends Fairmoor Elementary in Columbus City Schools, experienced increased asthma symptoms, the School Based Asthma Therapy team collaborated with her primary care physician and mom to make changes to her care plan.
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Asthma Express Program
Asthma Express is a home visit program designed to assist a patient and/or caregiver in understanding and succeeding in the management of asthma.
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Asthma Teamwork: Working with Your Doctor
Come prepared. Bring all of your medicines, spacer and any questions you may have. Tell your doctor about any asthma symptoms you have had.
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Back to School with Asthma
On average, 3 children in every classroom in America have asthma. While there is no cure, almost everyone with asthma can control their symptoms and lead a normal life without too many restrictions.
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Asthma Myths: Symptoms
I have a confession. I’m an asthma and allergy doc who almost missed this diagnosis with my own son. My wife (an Emergency Room physician, no less!) and I couldn’t figure out why, for weeks, our 3-year-old son couldn’t shake a persistent cough.
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What is Asthma?
Asthma is a disease of the lungs. When you have asthma, the airways are very sensitive to many things in the air. The airways may get smaller when you are around things that trigger your asthma. This is called a flare-up.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital App Aims To Help Families Manage Asthma
Very early on in her life, 3-year-old Karma Taylor found herself frequently in the Emergency Department in the middle of the night as a result of breathing problems. Karma’s mom, Joyce Kelso, felt like she was chasing after her daughter’s asthma rather than staying ahead of it.
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Asthma and Reactive Airway Disease (RAD) (Wheezing)
This Helping Hand™ covers asthma, which is a disease of the lungs in which the airways are sensitive to things in the air. During a flare-up the airways swell and fill with mucus. The muscles around the airways also tighten and squeeze. This can cause noisy breathing or wheezing.
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Asthma and Cleaning Products: A Complicated Relationship
Many people can have well-controlled asthma for months at a time, then suddenly develop difficulty breathing after coming in contact with one of their triggers.
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COVID-19 and Asthma: Some Good News
For the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought scary headlines and discouraging news reports. Well, it’s time for the millions of adults and children living with asthma to hear some good news for once.
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School-Based Asthma Therapy Program
Our School-Based Asthma Therapy (SBAT) Program is a link between your child's school and his or her asthma-care provider. Through the program, a child with high-risk asthma can have his or her prescribed medication administered while at school.
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14th Annual Pediatric Asthma Conference
Join us for the 14th Annual Pediatric Asthma Conference which will highlight emerging information and practical advice regarding asthma management for providers of asthma patients across all levels of care.
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Clinical Outcomes
Clinical outcomes are changes in health that can be both measured and followed. They go beyond simply providing safe care. They can take the form of many different aspects of health care. Clinical outcomes, however, should focus on what is important to the patient and their caregivers.
Asthma Program Resources
Nationwide Children's Hospital has developed an Asthma Booklet titled, "Tell Me About... Asthma". The resources from this booklet can be found in this section of the site. You can also download the full booklet.
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Asthma Program
We provide state-of-the-art care through diagnostic testing, up-to-date treatment strategies, and comprehensive education for patients with asthma and their families. In addition, we also offer a Complex Asthma Clinic for patients with severe asthma.
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Asthma Myth: Exercise/Sports
Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I had no choice but to become a raging Pittsburgh Steelers fan. So when I had the chance to work with Jerome Bettis, former running back for the Steelers and future Hall of Famer, during an Asthma Sports Camp a few years ago, it was a dream come true.
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The Conversation I Love to Have with Parents about Asthma
Nothing stays the same, including your child’s asthma. We know that asthma is a chronic disease. Symptoms and severity may change from season to season, month to month, or even year to year.
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Asthma
This clinical pathway discusses the management of Asthma care in the inpatient care setting.
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Is Vitamin D the Answer to Preventing Asthma Attacks?
Over the past decade, researchers have identified a strong association with low vitamin D levels and increased risk for asthma development and exacerbation among children and adults.
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Managing Exercise Induced Asthma in Athletes
When we breath, air is commonly moistened and heated in our nasal passages. Often, during physical exertion, athletes will breathe more through their mouths rather than their noses, so the air they inhale is colder and dryer. For some people, this irritates and narrows the airways, leading to asthma symptoms.
15th Annual Pediatric Asthma Conference
Join us for the 15th Annual Pediatric Asthma Conference that will highlight emerging information and practical advice regarding asthma management for providers of asthma patients across all levels of care.
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Asthma
This Helping Hand™ covers asthma, which is a lung disease that can cause breathing problems. If your child has asthma, the airways in their lungs overreact to certain things, called triggers.
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Medicine and Steroid Use
There are two types of medicines for treating asthma. They are called rescue (quick-relief) medicines and controller medicines.
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Asthma and Steroid Use
Asthma is when the airways, or bronchi, in the lungs overreact to certain things.
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Using an Asthma Action Plan
Sit down with your doctor to develop an Asthma Action Plan. A plan can be very helpful, especially during an asthma flare-up.
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What is Allergy Induced Asthma?
For many people with asthma, spring can be a very challenging time of the year. Rapid changes in the weather and lingering upper respiratory viruses can both cause breathing difficulties.
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Homecare Update
Homecare’s Asthma Express program continues to expand to meet the needs of children diagnosed with asthma throughout central Ohio.
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What Are The Symptoms of Asthma
Symptoms from asthma occur when the muscles surrounding the breathing tubes squeeze and tighten, which makes it very difficult to get air inside the lungs and body.
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Autumn Asthma Attacks
Just as millions of children head back to school every autumn, hospitals are always bustling with emergency room and inpatient visits at the same time. October is one of the busiest months of the year in regards to severe asthma attacks.
Meet Our Team
Our team of asthma experts includes physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers and more.
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Asthma
This clinical pathway discusses the management of Asthma care in the Emergency Department.
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Quiz: Is Your Asthma Under Control?
Do you take your rescue (quick-relief) medicine more than TWO times PER WEEK?
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The Challenges of Managing Asthma
Management of asthma requires understanding the underlying condition, knowledge about specific triggers (viral infections, weather changes, cigarette smoke, exercise, allergens), recognition of signs/symptoms, and prompt treatment with rescue medications.
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Learning Modules
Our learning modules provide school staff with a detailed description of the SBAT program.
Allergy and Asthma Resources
Check out some tips and resources about managing your allergies and asthma.
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Exercised Induced Asthma (EIA)
Exercise-induced asthma, also known as EIA, is breathing difficulty that is triggered by increased activity. There are many factors that contribute to EIA.
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Asthma Resources for Professionals
Check out some additional resources that can be helpful to professionals dealing with asthma.
A Tool to Help Better Control Childhood Asthma
A new Partners For Kids “digital dashboard” and algorithm help predict which children are most likely to end up in the emergency department for asthma, allowing pediatricians and other providers to intervene before the emergency happens.
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Asthma Inhaled Corticosteroid Table
Each inhaled corticosteroid has comparative daily dosages listed along with typical dose frequencies, strengths available, device delivery methods, and Ohio Medicaid coverage notes.
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Asthma
Join the series as we provide education about asthma management through a free virtual learning network for community providers.
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Study: Why Hot, Humid Air Triggers Symptoms in Patients with Mild Asthma
May is asthma awareness month, and with summer right around the corner, a study shows that doctors may be closer to understanding why patients with mild asthma have such difficulty breathing during hot, humid weather.
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Vocal Cord Dysfunction: When Breathing Difficulty Might Not Be Asthma
Vocal Cord Dysfunction is a disorder where the vocal cords do not open correctly when breathing. The muscles affecting the vocal cords tighten, making it harder to get air into the lungs.
Initial Outpatient Evaluation and Ongoing Management of Asthma
This tool was created by Partners For Kids to assist in following recommendations from the guidelines to treat asthma after proper diagnosis.
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Additional Resources for Parents
Check out some additional resources that could help your child's journey with asthma.
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Asthma Triggers
Many things can start an asthma flare-up. They are called triggers. Know your asthma triggers and avoid them.
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Preventative Measures for Asthmatic Athletes
The seasonal transition often takes a toll on asthmatic athletes. With proper education and prevention, asthma shouldn’t have to sideline your child.
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When You Need to Use a Controller Medicine
A common misconception about controller medicine for asthma is that it should only be taken when having trouble breathing.
Asthma Blog Library
The 700 Children’s blog covers the most common topics, frequently asked questions and current pediatric health care information written by pediatric experts. This collection of blogs includes information to help you navigate asthma and related treatments for your child.
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Study Finds that Childrens Asthma Care Measure Compliance is Not Associated with Reductions in Readmissions or Emergency Room Visits
One of three Children’s Asthma Care (CAC) core measures adopted by the Joint Commission shows no significant link between measure compliance and a decrease in asthma-related readmission or emergency care following an initial admission for treatment of asthma, according to a study in the
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Tips and Suggestions for Taking Asthma Medicine
Here are some expert tips to help encourage and improve your child's experience when taking asthma medicine.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Reminds Parents of Asthmatic Children to be Proactive This Flu and Allergy Season
With cold and flu season quickly approaching, and allergy season already upon us, doctors at Nationwide Children’s Hospital remind parents to take simple action steps that will protect their asthmatic children from having severe flare-ups.
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Inhaled Corticosteroids for Asthma
Properly administer inhaled corticosteroids for asthma with this Helping Hand.
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Why You Should Use a Spacer with a Pediatric Inhaler?
A spacer resembles a cylindrical tube creates “space” between your child’s mouth and the medicine. This space helps the medicine break into smaller droplets which can move easier and deeper into the lungs and therefore works very well to help your child breathe better.
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Grayson Lab
Under the direction of Mitchell Grayson, MD, the Grayson Lab studies how allergic diseases, like food allergy and asthma, develop, how respiratory viral infections can drive that development and how allergic disease affects the antiviral immune response in the lung.
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Use of Steriods as a Treatment Option and its Side Effects
Many parents have concerns about the side effects of steroids prescribed to treat asthma.
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How to Use a Nebulizer
A nebulizer is a machine used to deliver asthma medicine deep inside the lungs.
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Guidance for Prescribing a Spacer-Compatible Inhaled Steroid
This is a decision pathway that guides practices through barriers associated with patients obtaining a spacer-compatible inhaled steroid for treating asthma. It also includes standard prior authorization language to communicate with insurance companies.
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Columbus Childrens Hospital Study Sheds Light on Vocal Chord Dysfunction and Treatment
Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) is the sudden, abnormal narrowing closure of the vocal cords during inhalation causing obstruction of the airflow, and is characterized by a noise that can mimic the sound of wheezing.
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Pulmonary, Sleep Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis
We provide care for children and adults with congenital respiratory disorders including asthma, cystic fibrosis, sleep-related breathing disorders, advanced lung disease, lung transplant, and the management of chronic mechanical ventilation.
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Homecare Update
Homecare’s Asthma Express continues to provide care and instruction in the homes of patients.
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Are Scented Candles and Air Fresheners Harming Your Child?
Scented candles and air fresheners are popular items that many families use inside their homes. But recent reports have found their way to the internet regarding the potential harm from these items, some of which are exaggerated or misconstrued, whereas others have more merit.
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How to Use a Twisthaler
Learning how to properly use a twisthaler is important to assure asthma medicine is inhaled into the airways.
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Air Quality Alert: Why Hot, Sunny Days Can Be Bad for Your Breathing
Warm weather brings sunshine and outdoor fun, but for kids with asthma, it can also mean trouble breathing. Learn how ground-level ozone affects lung health, how to check air quality, and what you can do to keep kids safe and active all summer long.
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Britt Lab
The Britt Lab studies how inflammation affects airway structure and function in asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Their goal is to define physiological and immunological mechanisms that drive chronic airway disease, while also developing novel strategies that can alleviate disease and improve airway function.
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News You Can Use
- 2025 Physician Recognition Award Nominations
- Center for Clinical Excellence Quality Awards 2024
- Amy Valasek, MD, Recognized With Community Leadership Award
- Resources for Supporting Healthy Teen Relationships
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The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Every day, millions of children are exposed to secondhand smoke. Kids are also often exposed to “thirdhand” smoke, which comes from toxins that build up over time on surfaces exposed to smoke.
Resources for Parents and Kids
Access asthma resources, NICU family resources, videos and more.
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Lung Inflammation Research Affinity Group
The Lung Inflammation Research Affinity Group (LIRAG) facilitates collaboration on research that drives understanding of the mechanisms underlying lung disease broadly, with a special focus on those that involve inflammatory diseases of (or in) the lung.
How School-Based Health Care Helps Children
Health systems and school districts throughout Ohio have partnered on “school-based health care,” an effort to bring medical and other wellness services into schools for children who might not otherwise receive them.
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Paradoxical Vocal Cord Dysfunction (PVCD)
With Paradoxical Vocal Cord Dysfunction (PVCD), the vocal cords close together, or constrict, when a person inhales, leaving only a small opening for air to flow into the windpipe.
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How to Use a Dry Powder Inhaler
A dry powdered inhaler (DPI) is an asthma treatment option for older kids and teens. Using a dry powdered inhaler allows medicine to get deep into the lungs.
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Allergy and Immunology
We offer a wide range of services including allergy consultations, allergy shots, comprehensive asthma management plans, skin testing and more.
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How to Use an Inhaler with a Spacer and Mask
Using an inhaler with a spacer and a mask is an asthma treatment option for smaller children and babies.
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Allergy Shots for Your Child
You have allergies, and your doctor thinks allergy immunotherapy, or allergy shots, might help you feel better.
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Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine
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How to Use an Inhaler with a Spacer and Mouthpiece
Learning how to properly use an inhaler with a spacer and mouthpiece for asthma ensures the medicine gets deposited into the lungs.
Caring For Children of Incarcerated Parents
Nearly 5 million U.S. children have had a parent incarcerated, and those children face significant physical and mental health risks. A first-of-its-kind publication from Nationwide Children’s Hospital offers guidance to pediatricians who may care for those kids – some without knowing it.
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Community Provider Corner
- Partners For Kids' Asthma Toolkit
- Food Resources for Families
- Project ECHO Educational Programming
- Partners For Kids' Care Coordination Awarded NCQA Accrediation
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Childhood Constipation Deemed Significant Health Issue
According to new research conducted at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the burden of illness in children suffering from constipation, and the costs associated with this condition, are roughly of the same magnitude as those for asthma and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Britt Lab Staff
Learn more about principal investigator Rodney D. Britt Jr, PhD, ATSF, and his dynamic team in the Britt Lab.
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School Health Services
Our providers work on-site at schools across Ohio to provide primary care services, mental health counseling, asthma therapy care, vision care, dental care and more.
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Interprofessional Education and Grand Rounds Update
- Upcoming Conferences
- Pediatric Grand Rounds
- Project ECHO
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Experience
Our fellows gain experience through rotations in the immunology department and from the The Ohio State University Medical Center at the Morehouse Medical Plaza.
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COVID-19 and Pollen Allergies: The Perfect Storm
As much as we all hoped we wouldn’t have to worry about this again, the COVID-19 pandemic persists as the spring tree pollen season begins. Pollen allergies affect millions of children and adults, causing misery for weeks to months each spring, summer, and autumn.
41st Annual School Health Conference
Save the team for the 41st Annual School Health Conference: Featuring Hands-On School Nursing Skills hosted by Nationwide Children’s Hospital, a leading pediatric care facility and research institute. This year’s conference will highlight dynamic speakers on topics such as childhood grief, situational awareness, diabetes and asthma education, and much more.
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Interprofessional Education and Grand Rounds Update
- Upcoming Conferences
- Pediatric Grand Rounds
- Project ECHO: Obesity, Rumination and Family ECHO
- MOC Part 4 Credit
- Lounge and Learn
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Enterovirus D68: Learn the Facts
Runny nose, cough and congestion are sweeping across central Ohio. You know this because you’ve seen it in the news, on social media feeds, and (if you’re like me) in your own home. It happens this time every year.
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Respiratory Toolbox for Kids Struggling to Breathe
Sometimes despite our best efforts, we need to take our child to the hospital. Let me ease your mind and share what our amazing respiratory therapists do to help your child heal!
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Noisy Breathing in Kids
Is your child a noisy breather? Find out why – and what to do about it.
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Pickerington Resident Undergoes First Lung Transplant at Columbus Children's Hospital
The first lung transplant at Columbus Children’s Hospital occurred Monday, July 11, 2005 when twenty-three-year-old Emily DeArdo of Pickerington, Ohio, received two lungs.
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Provider Information
Access resources for referring providers and homecare health professionals.
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Intermittent Skilled Nursing Program
The staff provides in-home nursing visits to help your family transition from the hospital to your home.
Proving That Value-Based Care Can “Bend the Cost Curve”
Results of a Pediatrics study indicate that Partners for Kids successfully improved the value of pediatric health care over time through cost containment, while maintaining quality of care.
Meet Our Team
Meet our Allergy & Immunology team.
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Allergy Skin Testing
If your child is being seen for possible allergies, asthma, frequent infections or stuffy nose, allergy skin testing may be recommended. Testing can help find out what "allergen" causes the symptoms. It could be something breathed in, touched, or eaten.
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Bridging Our Patients from Hospital to Home
Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation is a medically supervised, individually tailored exercise and education program. It is designed to help your child feel better, increase endurance, and improve quality of life.
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Researchers Study Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 in Young People
While most people who get COVID-19 are better within a few weeks, some people have symptoms that last longer.
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Data Science
Our Data Science team employs innovative approaches for acquiring, managing, retrieving, and analyzing data.
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Meet Our Fellows
Learn more about the Pediatric Pulmonary fellows training at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
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Propranolol for Hemangiomas
Does your child have a Hemangioma? Learn more about how propranolol can be used to treat it.
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Food Allergy
A food allergy is when the immune system mistakenly responds to a food protein, resulting in inflammation or damage to the intestinal tract. Allergies can present with an immediate or a delayed reaction.
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Sleeplessness in Children and Adolescents: What’s Keeping Them Up at Night?
From infancy through adolescence, healthy sleep is needed to help your child to learn, grow, remember things, drive safely, make decisions, support their immune system, and have a healthy emotional wellness. Yet, children and adolescents may be unable to sleep due to reasons beyond their control.
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Best Kept Secrets: Why Cardiopulmonary Rehab Might be What Your Child Needs
Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation is a form of rehab that can provide benefits for individuals of all ages who are experiencing a decline in their physical endurance or having difficulty with normal daily activities.
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Allergy Immunotherapy-What is it?
While it may seem unusual to start thinking about allergy treatments during winter time, it’s actually the perfect time to get a head start on preventing your or your child’s allergy symptoms. Allergen avoidance and allergy medications are the first steps in managing allergies.
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A New, More Convenient Way to Treat Allergies
Spring is finally here – and so are the allergies! Allergies happen when the body’s immune system overreacts to something that’s usually harmless, like dust, pollen, pets with fur or foods.
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Are Allergies Caused by C-Sections?
As rates of food allergies and other allergic conditions continue to increase among children, the search for prevention strategies has taken center stage among researchers.
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Food Allergies On The Rise
It happens at least once a week in my office. A parent or grandparent will ask "Why are there so many more children with peanut allergy these days?" This is typically followed by the statement, "When I was growing up, I didn't know anyone who had food allergies." It is true – peanut and food
Pulmonary Medicine Clinical Research
Learn more about clinical research relating to pulmonary medicine.
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Melissa B Holtzlander
Melissa Holtzlander, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology at Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She did her undergraduate training at Youngstown State University, and her postgraduate training at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Holtzlander did her residency at Nationwide Children's Hospital, as well as a year of chief residency. She completed her fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Her clinical interests include the evaluation and management of children with a variety of respiratory illnesses, including asthma, PCD, chronic lung disease, interstitial lung disease, and ventilator dependency.
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Allergy to Dust Mites
This Helping Hand™ covers allergy to dust mites. When a person who is sensitive to the dust mite breathes in these particles, they can cause sneezing, coughing, runny nose, congestion and itchy, watery eyes.
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Primary Care, Urgent Care or Emergency Department?
Check out this chart for common illnesses/injuries and where you should go for treatment.
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Study Shows When Housing Quality is Poor, Children Suffer
Housing instability and homelessness are widely understood to have an impact on health, and certain housing problems have been linked to specific childhood health conditions, such as mold with asthma.
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How to Choose an Urgent Care
Convenience seldom plays a role in the timing of your child’s illness or injury. Take the sudden earache at 3 in the morning…or a fall down the stairs on a Sunday afternoon. Sporting injuries are more likely in the evening or on a weekend.
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What is Sickle-Cell Disease?
Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder in which red blood cells are abnormally shaped like a sickle or crescent, which decreases their ability to move through blood vessels smoothly.
Annual Report
Click here to view highlights from the 2023-24 Division of Pulmonary Medicine Annual Report.
July 2024
Read the July 2024 issue of Medstat.
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & 1/2 Marathon Announce 2023 Mile Champions
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & 1/2 Marathon is pleased to announce the 2023 “Mile Champions” who will represent 24 of the 26 miles on the course.
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Humidifiers for Respiratory Infections: Are They Helpful or Harmful?
Pediatricians often recommend plugging in a humidifier in your child's bedroom when they get an upper respiratory infection. But does this actually do anything?
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ED vs. Urgent Care
Urgent Care? Emergency Department? These guidelines can help you better understand when to seek appropriate care for your child. If you think your child has a medical emergency or life-threatening condition, always call 911.
How Partners For Kids is Expanding Its Nation-leading Care Coordination Program
Navigating the health care system can be a challenge. For more than a decade, Partners For Kids has helped make it easier for 26,000 young patients who are “medically complex.” The organization is now growing its care coordination program to help even more families.
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & 1/2 Marathon Announce 2022 Patient Champions
The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & 1/2 Marathon is pleased to announce the 2022 “Patient Champions” who will represent 24 of the 26 miles on the course. The other two miles, the Encore Mile, will honor former Marathon Patient Champions, and the Angel Mile, will celebrate the lives of those who are no longer with us.
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon Announce 2021 Patient Champions
The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon is pleased to announce the 2021 “Patient Champions” who will represent 24 of the 26 miles on the course.
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Urgent Care or Emergency Department: Which One Is Right for Your Child's Needs?
Not so long ago, parents had two choices for after-hours medical care: wait for the doctor’s office to open or head to the local emergency room. Today’s parent has more choices, including urgent care centers, grocery store clinics and the newest player in town – the stand-alone ER.
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Dispelling Medical Myths with Social Media
As a pediatric allergist, I meet families from all types of backgrounds who share concerns about common childhood conditions such as asthma, environmental allergies, food allergies and eczema. These topics generate quite a few questions from primary care colleagues and other specialists.
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The Importance of Having a Relationship With Your Child's Pediatrician
Find out why seeing a pediatric primary care provider (PCP) - a physician or nurse practitioner who knows your child best - is crucial to your child’s health.
Reaching More Children With the COVID Vaccine
Through school-based health programs, Nationwide Children’s has helped vaccinate thousands of young people who might not have been vaccinated otherwise.
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Noisy Breathing (Stertor, Stridor or Wheezing)
Noisy breathing is common, especially in children. and can be a sign of many different conditions. Noisy breathing is typically caused by a partial blockage or narrowing at some point in the airways. Types of noisy breathing include low-pitched, stridor and wheezing.
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NIH-Sponsored Expert Panel Issues Clinical Guidelines to Prevent Peanut Allergy
An expert panel sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, issued clinical guidelines today to aid health care providers in early introduction of peanut-containing foods to infants to prevent the development of peanut
How Value-Based Care Helps Make Community Investment Possible
Nationwide Children's Chief Financial Officer Luke Brown is charged with carefully managing the finances of one of the United States’ largest pediatric health systems. At the same time, Nationwide Children’s is making significant population health investments, with the goal of keeping children as healthy as possible – and keeping them out of the hospital. In a recent conversation, he spoke of balancing those goals.
Climate Change, the Environment, and Children’s Health
Community health is often focused on the immediate “environment:” housing, food access, neighborhood safety and similar concerns. But much wider-scope environmental issues, such as climate change, are increasingly recognized as having an impact on health as well.
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital Opening New Vision Center, School Health Center in Reynoldsburg, Mt. Vernon
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is opening a new school-based health center at Mount Vernon City Schools and a vision center at Reynoldsburg City Schools as part of ongoing efforts to increase access to health care for students.
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Medical Identification (ID)
A medical identification is a piece of jewelry that has a medical symbol and states a health condition. It can be a bracelet, necklace or sports band.
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Partners for Kids, Nationwide Childrens Hospital Demonstrate Cost Savings and Quality as Pediatric ACO
A new study published in Pediatrics demonstrates the cost-saving and health care quality outcomes of the pediatric Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Partners for Kids.
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Columbus Children's Hospital to go Smoke Free
Effective October 1, Columbus Childrens Hospital and all affiliated campuses will be entirely smoke free. While Childrens has been smoke free for all employees since 2004, visitors have been able to smoke in designated smoking areas.
Building Momentum for School-Based Health Care
Schools and health care organizations are starting to realize they have the same goal: healthy, successful, happy, productive children. Mary Kay Irwin, EdD, senior director of School Health Services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, shares how the two can collaborate through school-based health care.
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5 Ways to Prepare for Football Camp
It’s July and that means football players everywhere are knee deep in summer workouts, overnight skills camps and preparation for the start of two-a-day practices. There are few things parents can do to help with this ahead of time that can make a world of difference.
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Perioral Dermatitis
In this Helping Hand™ document, we discuss perioral dermatitis, which is a common dry or bumpy rash that can occur around the mouth, the nose and the eyes. To treat the rash, it is important to stop using any topical steroids. Instead, your child’s doctor may prescribe topical or oral antibiotics.
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Pneumomediastinum
In this Helping Hand™, we discuss the causes and treatment pneumomediastinum, which is a condition that happens when air escapes from the lungs, airways, or esophagus into the mediastinum.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Earns Ohio Department of Healths Healthy Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Employer Award
Nationwide Children’s Hospital recently was honored with Ohio Department of Health’s (ODH) Healthy Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Employer Award. Nationwide Children’s is one of 22 employers in the state to be honored by ODH, and just one of 11 to receive the award.
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Massage Therapy: Here to Help
We are in the middle of long, cold winter. This time of year can be tough on anyone, but can you imagine braving the cold weather and tackling your resolutions while having a child in the hospital? It’s hard to fathom the emotional state of parents who may be feeling scared, alone or
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Respiratory Therapy Careers
Nationwide Children’s is hiring Registered Respiratory Therapists for positions in various areas of pediatric care. New graduates are encouraged to apply. Interviews are being offered to current students with pending graduation dates.
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Food Allergy: Oral Food Challenge
An oral food challenge is the single best test used to find out if a child is allergic to a specific food. It is dose-graded. This means the child is given small amounts (doses) of the food in question to eat and then watched for signs of an allergic reaction.
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School Health Professional Development
We provide professional development, training and consultation services to healthcare partners, school districts and local and state governments to develop integrated models of school health.
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New Obesity Guidelines for Children and Adolescents
For the first time in fifteen years, the American Academy of Pediatrics released new treatment guidelines for children and adolescents with obesity.
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Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Clinic
The focus of Osteopathic Medicine is the understanding that all the body’s systems are interconnected and how each system affects the others. Special focus is placed on the musculoskeletal system, which not only makes up two-thirds of the body’s mass, but also reflects and influences
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Mobile Care Center
The Nationwide Children’s Mobile Care Center and the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile© bring health care to your neighborhood. We have medical equipment and health care providers on board, making it easier for your child to receive care close to school or home.
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Your Child's Pollen Allergy
Pollens are fine, powdery grains released from plants to help fertilize other plants. Each type of plant makes its own pollen.
Back to School
Going back to school is full of excitement and change. Whether you are sending your child to school for the first time or you are a seasoned pro, Nationwide Children's is always just a click or call away.
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Thrush and Yeast Infections
Thrush is an infection caused by a fungus called candida. Thrush can affect a child's mouth or diaper area. Oral thrush begins as flat white spots and come together to form patches. These spots are often mistaken for "milk patches." Candida in the diaper area can cause a red rash with tiny blisters.
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Aromatherapy: Essential Oils
This Helping Hand™ is about how to use essential oils for aromatherapy safely.
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Cupping Therapy: Does it Improve Athletic Abilities?
Although cupping is seen more often in the athletic world, physical therapists are using it more and more in the general population to assist with improving a patient’s daily function and pain.
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Does your Child Need a Sports Physical?
It’s that time of year again. Time for Pre-Participation Exams (PPE) or better known as sports physicals. All young athletes’ middle school and older need to have a sports physical in order to compete in organized activity.
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How to Treat and Prevent Chapped Lips
Dry, chapped, irritated lips are more than just unsightly – they can be painful as well. Unfortunately, many of us are used to this feeling and see our kids suffer too.
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Dr. Kavitha Kotha Appointed Physician in Pulmonary Medicine at Nationwide Childrens Hospital
Kavitha Kotha, MD, recently was appointed as a physician in Pulmonary Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kotha comes to Nationwide Children’s from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In addition to her appointment at Nationwide Children’s, Dr.
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Using a Nasal Spray for your Child
A lot of people use nasal sprays, but a lot of people use nasal sprays incorrectly. Just follow these simple steps and we’ll have you feeling better, faster.
Opening School-based Health Care to the Community
St. Mary School in Columbus, Ohio’s German Village neighborhood is breaking ground on a new school health center, which will provide on-site care to the students of St. Mary’s and to others throughout the area.
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Homecare
Our goal is to return each child to the most normal life possible. We provide a full range of homecare services to central Ohio children of all ages, from newborns through young adults.
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The Collaboratory for Kids & Community Health provides community partners, corporate leaders, policy makers, other health care systems and researchers an inside look at how Nationwide Children’s Hospital, a national leader in population health strategies, has elevated its progress in
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Receives Award for Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers in the Workplace
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the first businesses in the state to be awarded the Healthy Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Employer Award by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH).
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Old Village Primary Care Center to Move to New Location in Hilltop Area
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Old Village Primary Care Center, located at 50 Old Village Rd., is moving to a new location 2857 West Broad St. Slated to open its doors June 9, 2008, Nationwide Childrens Hospital Hilltop Primary Care Center will be more than double the size of the Old Village center,
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Should Kids Taking Immunosuppressant Medication Receive the H1N1 Vaccine?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have classified all children, 6-months to 24-years, one of the high risk groups for contracting the H1N1 (swine) flu, and recommend this population receive the H1N1 vaccine for immunity against the disease.
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Oral Phenylephrine Doesn’t Work and the FDA Finally Recognized It
We’ve all seen the over-the-counter oral cough & cold and allergy medicines that contain phenylephrine. This ingredient is in many of these medications have been around since the early 1970s and has been touted to be effective at helping our stuffy noses when we get sick with a cold.
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Population Health and Health Equity
Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s aspiration is to eliminate inequities in child health.
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Health and Wellness
HNHF expands access to health care by offering community and school-based services.
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Your Child's Dust Mite Allergy
Dust mites are microscopic insects that live in our pillows mattresses and box-spring. To limit your exposure to dust mites, follow all these tips.
The “Roving” Dental Clinic: Cleanings and Fillings in the Classroom?
Nationwide Children’s Hospital has created a “roving” community dental clinic that has conducted procedures wherever there is space for them – including empty conference rooms and school classrooms.
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Eczema
Eczema is a chronic dry, itchy skin condition that often runs in families. Eczema is not contagious. Eczema often affects the insides of elbows, backs of knees, and the face.
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Allergic Rhinitis
Allergic rhinitis is a common condition caused by an abnormal reaction of the body’s immune system to various allergens. In this condition, the nasal lining can become very inflamed and swollen from the over-response of the body. Common allergens include dust, grass, pollen, mold, trees and dander.
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Potential Biomarkers Linked to Urinary Tract Infection-Related Pregnancy Complications Identified
Investigators in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have developed a mouse model in which a mother’s urinary tract infection negatively affects the offspring, an occurrence anecdotally observed in humans.
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Dr. Don Hayes Appointed Medical Director of Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs at Nationwide Childrens Hospital
Don Hayes, MD, MS, MEd, recently joined Nationwide Children’s Hospital as medical director of the Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant programs. He comes to Nationwide Children’s from the University of Kentucky Medical Center where he served as the medical director of various programs
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Sports Medicine
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Should My Baby Get a Flu Shot?
Flu season is here and flu vaccines are more readily available than ever before. You can obtain a flu shot at the grocery store, every corner drug store, community centers and certainly at your pediatrician’s office.
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Benefits of Fluoride in Drinking Water
Tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease, but it's largely preventable with the right strategies. Discover how fluoride in drinking water can protect your child's smile and well-being in our latest blog post!
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Honey and Allergies: Don’t Fall for the Marketing!
Honey is often touted as a treatment for seasonal allergies (especially if it’s local or organic). While honey does taste delicious, unfortunately it is not a proven treatment for allergies.
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Should Parents with Diabetes Breastfeed?
Parents who have diabetes of any kind are similar to other new parents in many ways. But according to a study here at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, they are less likely to breastfeed their newborn baby in the hospital and continue breastfeeding for at least two months.
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10 Things You Should Know About Sickle Cell Disease
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States. Learn 10 things you should know about sickle cell disease.
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Young Blood Donors: What You Need to Know
Donating blood is a personal decision. Blood donations help save lives and benefit people of all ages. Here are some things you need to know if you are thinking about donation.
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Massage Therapy
A leader in pediatric massage therapy, Nationwide Children’s is one of the only children’s hospitals to staff a department of full-time, licensed massage therapists.
Diabetes Care at School: The DASH Program
Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s innovative school-based diabetes management program is now available at more than 75 schools, helping young people most at risk for complications from Type 1 diabetes better control their condition.
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Research Faculty Careers
The Abigail Wexner Research Institute (AWRI) at Nationwide Children’s is ranked among the top 10 freestanding children’s hospitals based on NIH funding. On a continuing trajectory of rapid growth, AWRI is looking for new faculty to drive the next generation of discovery at Nationwide Children's.
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Allergy to Mold
This Helping Hand™ covers mold, which is a fungus that can be found almost anywhere, both indoors and outside. Only a few types of mold cause an allergic reaction. Mold seeds (or spores) get into the air and are then breathed in.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Honors 2011 Career Contribution Award Recipients
Nationwide Children’s Hospital staff and friends gathered Wednesday, September 7, to honor four recipients of the 2011 Career Contribution Awards. The special distinction is awarded by Nationwide Children’s medical staff to a select few of its most highly respected peers.
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Health Care at School: Hospital Reduces Barriers and Provides Critical Services
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Routine health and dental care are essential to children’s health, yet disparities put many children at risk for unmet health and dental needs.
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The Myth of the Hypoallergenic Dog
About two-thirds of homes in the United States have at least one pet, and most of these have dogs. In addition, 10-20% of all children and adults across the world are allergic to dogs. That means there are a lot of people that live with the very animal that can cause them misery.
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Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding: The Struggles Are Real
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive human milk for the first 6 months of life. Hear from our experts on the benefits and common problems that parents may encounter while breastfeeding/chestfeeding.
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Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Eosinophilic esophagitis is a chronic, allergic inflammatory disease of the esophagus. It occurs when a type of white blood cell, the eosinophil, builds up in the esophagus. The elevated number of eosinophils results in injury and inflammation to the esophagus which can make eating difficult or uncomfortable, potentially resulting in poor growth, chronic pain, and/or difficulty swallowing.
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All About Croup
What causes croup? What other symptoms are present? How do we treat croup, and can it be prevented? Let’s take a closer look.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) interventions are health care approaches developed outside of mainstream-Western, or conventional, medicine.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital and Columbus City Schools Announce Partnership
Columbus City Schools and Nationwide Children’s Hospital have announced an expanded partnership this week to provide school-based wellness programs as well as select health care services for students who do not have a medical home and those who do not routinely seek access to care via a
Early Success With Teen Health Advisors at School
In its first year, Youth Advisory Councils in five central Ohio schools have created building-wide plans to better student health – and members of the councils themselves are seeing their grades and attendance rates improve.
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Prevention of Peanut Allergies: Are We Ready to Take the LEAP?
With the LEAP study, we finally have some proof that early introduction may prevent against the development of peanut allergies. Every single child enrolled in this study underwent skin prick testing and physician supervised oral challenge to peanut.
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Summer Camp
About 11 million children and young adults attend summer camp each year. While there are many advantages to spending time at summer camp, there is, as always, the possibility of injury.
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Eczema: Separating Fact from Fiction
Eczema is one of the most common chronic skin conditions affecting infants and children. Eczema can range from mild to severe and can be very debilitating for some children, causing scarring, poor sleep and strain on family dynamics.
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Flu Complications: Risk Factors, Symptoms and Prevention
It's that time of year: flu season! While the influenza virus can be severe and long-lasting, the bigger problem with the flu is the complications that arise during the infection.
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It's the Worst Pollen Season Ever!
Well, ok…not really. But the headlines will scream this every spring. It is true that millions of adults and children suffer from seasonal allergies. It is also true that the duration of spring pollen season appears to be getting longer in many parts of the world.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital and Columbus City Schools Announce Partnership
Columbus City Schools and Nationwide Children’s Hospital have announced an expanded partnership this week to provide school-based wellness programs as well as select health care services for students who do not have a medical home and those who do not routinely seek access to care via a
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital, Community Partners Unveil 2010-11 Full Potential Collaborative Childrens Health Report
Today during a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the Columbus Public Health Department and more than a dozen other local organizations came together to, once again, spark a community-wide conversation about the state of pediatric health in Franklin County, and
Creating a School-Based Health Model in Southern Ohio
In an effort to expand kids’ access to health care, Nationwide Children’s created the School Health Learning Collaborative, engaging and funding 13 school health teams across nine mostly Appalachian counties in southern Ohio.
School-Based Reproductive Health Education Programs
Nationwide Children’s Hospital and its partners are expanding reproductive health education efforts in schools to improve teen health and overall wellbeing.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Launches Miracles At Play
Today, on Valentines Day, Nationwide Children’s Hospital joined with partners from Nationwide Insurance and the City of Columbus to introduce “Miracles At Play” – what the hospital hopes to be a community-wide movement aimed at celebrating the many miracles that take place
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Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program
Our program is a medically supervised, individually tailored program consisting of exercise and education to help patients feel better, increase endurance and improve their overall quality of life.
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Breaking Stride
Fractures and dislocations are two of the more serious types of injuries that can occur during an athletic event. Early recognition and prompt medical treatment are extremely important with these injuries in athletes.
Improving Family Health Through Legal Representation
Some families who visit Nationwide Children’s Hospital face domestic violence, possible evictions or other legal situations that could have a huge effect on child health. The hospital’s free legal service, Lawyers for Kids, helped many of those families in 2021.
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Funding
The Wang Lab appreciates the generous support of funders who share our mission to understand fundamental questions related to cell metabolism, cell cycle, and cell fate determination in various physio-pathological contexts. Explore our major projects.
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Housing for Health
In a recent publication in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital present a case study for treating a neighborhood as a patient.
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Aromatherapy: Supporting Patients in a Holistic Way
Aromatherapy is becoming more common as a way to support patients during their hospital admission. Aromatherapy is the term for using essential oils in a holistic way, meaning they are used to support health – mind, body, and spirit.
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Winter Viruses Make a Summer Return
You may have noticed an uptick in kids and adults suffering from nasal congestion, sore throat, cough and fever. These viruses are typically seen during the winter months, but this year is different… we are seeing them in the summer!
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Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and the Common Cold
The common cold does not feel so common if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. We often get calls from patients of the Teen and Pregnant Program (TaP) regarding which medications are safe to take for cold symptoms.
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Practicing Positive Discipline
It is important to fully understand the risks of hitting as a form of discipline as well as the lack of efficacy when compared to other strategies. We encourage parents to seek out positive forms of discipline whenever possible.
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RSV and Bronchiolitis: What Do I Need to Know?
Bronchiolitis is a viral disease and pretty common at this time of year. In fact, the majority of bronchiolitis is caused by a virus known as RSV, which infects nearly all children by 2 years of age.
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Food Allergies: Have We Finally Found a Way to Treat Them?
Food allergies affect 1 in 13 U.S. children, causing immediate onset allergic reactions every time someone eats the food. Peanut, milk, egg, wheat, soy, tree nuts and seafood are the most common food allergies.
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Crohns Disease Not Exempt From Racial Disparities
A study published recently in the IBD Journal found significant differences in hospital readmissions, medication usage, and both medical and surgical complications of children with Crohn’s disease related to race.
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Allergies to Foods
A food allergy occurs when the body’s immune system overreacts to certain foods. The body then makes antibodies to that food and an allergic reaction occurs. Anaphylaxis is a severe and possibly life-threatening reaction. If a severe reaction occurs, use the EpiPen and call 9-1-1 immediately.
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Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis)
This Helping Hand™ is about eczema in children, which is a skin problem that causes dry, itchy, rough skin rashes.
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Community Provider Corner
- Ohio Amblyope Registry
- Addressing Racism in Maternal-Infant Care Continuing Education Series
- Rare Disease Day
- Project ECHO Series
- Partner For Kids' Unified Preferred Drug List
- Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening in Ohio Virtual Conference
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Community Provider Corner
- Flovent Discontinuation Announcement
- Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis
- Project ECHO First Quarter Offerings
- ADHD Academy
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon Announce 2017 Patient Champions
The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon is pleased to announce its “Patient Champions” who will represent 24 of the 26 miles on this year’s course.
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Nationwide Children’s and Columbus City Schools Celebrate Fort Hayes School-Based Student Health Center Grand Opening
Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Columbus City Schools announce the grand opening of a school-based student health center at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center – part of ongoing efforts to increase access to health and mental health services for students across the community, including children who live in areas that are underserved.
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Nationwide Children’s, Ohio State Receive $17.7 Million to Study Children’s Health
A research team at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center was recently awarded $17.7 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to join a national consortium to study how childhood environments and experiences influence the health of children as they grow and develop.
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Medicine Allergy Challenge
A medicine allergy challenge is a test used to find out if a child is allergic to certain drugs or medicines, often an antibiotic.
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Let’s Smoke Out Tobacco: How to Talk to Your Child About Tobacco Products
This increasingly complicated world can be difficult for parents to navigate, and it is normal to feel overwhelmed and ill-prepared to address the topic of tobacco use with their children.
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The Lone Star Tick and Red Meat Allergy: Should You Be Concerned?
While most tick bites are painless and often go unnoticed, ticks can cause serious problems for humans by transmitting infectious diseases such as Lyme Disease or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
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Juvenile Arthritis: Diagnosis and Treatment Options for Your Child
When I tell people I’m a pediatric rheumatologist – which is a doctor who takes care of children with arthritis and autoimmune disorders, - nearly everyone responds, “I didn’t know kids could get arthritis.” Arthritis is a common condition in children, affecting one in
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Our Top 10 Blog Posts of 2017
For the past three years we have saved a slot on our calendar to list the top 10 posts of the year. In 2017, we shared year-over-year favorites, trending and newsworthy topics and told you about new initiatives.
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What to Expect When Your Child Visits the Heart Clinic
There are a number of reasons why a pediatrician may ask for your child to see a pediatric cardiologist. While this can be a scary thing for a parent to hear, many common problems seen in the cardiology clinic are actually mild conditions and can be adequately evaluated, diagnosed and treated without extensive testing.
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Exercise for Fitness
Your body is like a machine. Exercise helps all the parts of your body work their best. You need to exercise regularly to stay healthy and fit.
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Marfan Syndrome
Marfan Syndrome is an inherited disorder of connective tissue caused by genetic mutations that result in the dysregulation of the proteins of the extracellular matrix (fibrillin). The diagnosis is based on signs, family history, and results of diagnostic tests.
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Hospital Medicine
Hospitalists in the Sections of Hospital Pediatrics and Adult Hospital Medicine provide care for your child on the general medical floors.
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Referrals and Scheduling
We accept patient referrals and appointment requests through several options. Choose the option that works best for you.
Redefining Breastfeeding Help as Preventive Health Care
Breastfeeding is linked to an array of benefits for both the parent and the child, but it is often overlooked in preventive services. A team of health professionals are working to remedy that and integrate breastfeeding support and education into primary care visits.
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Past Events
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Food Allergy Treatment Center
Our Food Allergy Treatment Center provides all-inclusive and patient-specific care for children with suspected or confirmed food allergies.
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Acne
In this Helping Hand™, we discuss the causes and treatment of acne. Acne is a skin condition that occurs when hair follicles become plugged with oil and dead skin cells. It causes whiteheads, blackheads or pimples.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon Announce 2016 Patient Champions at RunFest
The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon is pleased to announce its “Patient Champions” who will represent 24 of the 26 miles on this year’s course.
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The Collaboratory for Kids & Community Health Launched by Nationwide Children’s Hospital to Share Best Practices for the Health of the Whole Child and Communities
Nationwide Children’s Hospital has launched The Collaboratory for Kids & Community Health, to provide community partners, corporate leaders, policy makers, health care systems and researchers a resource for sharing best practices in pediatric population health strategies. The hospital will fuel the Collaboratory with content based on their extensive experience working with diverse partners to improve communities, implement school-based health, provide high-quality housing, address mental and physical health and more. The site will also collate and share best practices from leaders in the community health space.
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Lynch Lab
Under the direction of Thomas Lynch, PhD, the Lynch Lab leverages cutting-edge animal models, cell and tissue culture techniques, and transcriptomics to study region-specific cell differentiation, renewal and regenerative plasticity in the conducting airways of the lung.
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Library Quick Links
Quick links at your fingertips. Access public databases, medical literature, patient education resources and more.
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Impedance pH Monitoring
Impedance pH Monitoring measures the length of time it takes for your child’s stomach contents (acid or non-acid) come back up into his or her esophagus.
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Center for Perinatal Research
The Center for Perinatal Research conducts innovative basic, translational and clinical research focused on prevention of preterm birth and improvement of prematurity-related outcomes.
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Gastroesophageal Reflux (GERD): What Is It, and What Can Be Done?
The most common symptom of GERD in infants is spitting up or vomiting, which is often forceful and followed or preceded by crying. Pain from esophageal irritation can cause difficulty in eating or refusal to eat altogether, along with crankiness during feeding.
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Cough Talk: What Does All That Hacking Mean?
Coughs are often associated with the common cold and there’s little you can do, other than try to ease the symptoms. However, a lot of coughing, especially in babies under four months old, could be a sign of a serious illness.
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Resident Education
Residents provide the front line of patient care under the watchful and respectful supervision of the faculty. Nationwide Children's Hospital offers hands-on experience, workshops and more to ensure the success of our residents.
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Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand smoke is what you breathe in when you are around a smoker. It is what the smoker breathes out and the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe. It contains more than 4,000 chemicals. There is no safe level of exposure.
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Partners For Kids: Pediatric Accountable Care
Partners For Kids, a partnership between Nationwide Children's and more than 2,100 providers, is one of the nation’s oldest and largest pediatric accountable care organizations.
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Fast Facts
Our mission. Our vision. Our locations. Our leadership. Learn the facts about Nationwide Children's Hospital.
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Visiting the Emergency Room
When you know about emergency services at Nationwide Children's Hospital, you will be prepared if your child needs unexpected emergency medical care.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon Announce 2016 Patient Champions Mile Themes
The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon & ½ Marathon is pleased to announce the mile themes for its field of “Patient Champions” who will represent 24 of the 26.2 miles on this year’s course.
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Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding
There are many rewards to breastfeeding. Breastfeeding helps to develop a close bond between you and your infant and provides your new baby with the best nutrition. Breast milk has nearly a perfect mix of vitamins, proteins and fat.
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Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) Program
The Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital provides expert diagnosis and care to children and adolescents with EoE.
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Primary Care
Our Primary Care Centers are in your neighborhood with expert doctors and nurses who care only for children, from birth to age 21.
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Mayor, City Council, Nationwide Children Hospitals and Community Partners announce Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families Initiative
Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman today joined with City Council President Michael C. Mentel, Councilmember Charleta B. Tavares, Nationwide Childrens Hospital CEO Dr. Steve Allen and community leaders to announce the Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families (HNHF) initiative.
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Global Health Certificate Program
Nationwide Children’s Hospital offers residents the opportunity to participate in a two year certificate program in global health. The program provides residents with a better understanding of the medical challenges faced in other countries and prepares you for careers and activities that involve the field of global health.
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The Center for Clinical Excellence
Be a Zero Hero! Quality, safety and best outcomes are our top priorities. We have many goals and tools that help us quantify the healthcare process Learn how we do it.
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Pediatric Psychology Track
Learn about the diverse Pediatric Psychology track offered through Nationwide Children's Hospital.
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Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), is a rare congenital condition where the muscles in the diaphragm do not grow together, leaving a hole. The hole allows the intestines and other organs (stomach, liver) to move up into the baby’s chest. When this happens, it makes it hard for the lungs to grow.
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Curriculum
Our Sports Medicine is built on a broad curriculum that gives our fellows the opportunity to practice in different fields. Learn more about our curriculum.
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Fellowship Experience
The Sports Medicine Fellowship is a one year fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Fellows will have a broad range of study and a close working relationship with faculty members.
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Accreditations, Awards & Honors
See why Nationwide Children's continues to be a leader in pediatric health care with our list of recent accreditations and honors.
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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Celebrates Completion of Seven-Year Campus Expansion, Largest Pediatric Expansion Project in U.S. History
As the City of Columbus celebrates its bicentennial, Nationwide Children’s Hospital celebrates the biggest achievement in its 120-year history, changing both the Columbus skyline and the future of pediatric care.