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Maitreya "Trey" Coffey, MD, Named Chief Quality Officer at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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Maitreya "Trey" Coffey, MD, Named Chief Quality Officer at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Nationwide Children’s Hospital has named Maitreya Coffey, MD, as the hospital’s inaugural Chief Quality Officer (CQO), effective May 5. As part of this role, Dr. Coffey will oversee Nationwide Children’s Center for Clinical Excellence.

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Nationwide Foundation’s $10 million Pediatric Innovation Fund supports Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s affordable housing, clinical research work

The Nationwide Foundation announced today a $10 million investment through its Pediatric Innovation Fund to expand Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s affordable housing in the Linden and South Side neighborhoods and advance the hospital’s groundbreaking work in genomic medicine, data science and clinical research. The 2025 gift, which builds on more than a decade of philanthropic investments in vital programs, supports key hospital initiatives including biomedical data sciences, genomics, population health, endowed chairs and behavioral health. These programs seek to help all children have a healthy future, whether they live in central Ohio or across the United States.

Pediatric Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Pediatric Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship

The Pediatric Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship program that follows the scientist-practitioner model of training and provides clinical experiences to develop advanced competencies in the specialty area of pediatric psychology.

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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.

Patrick Gallagher, MD, Elected to Association of American Physicians
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Patrick Gallagher, MD, Elected to Association of American Physicians

Patrick Gallagher, MD, director of the Center for Perinatal Research in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, has been elected to the Association of American Physicians, one of the most prestigious physician-scientist societies worldwide. Dr. Gallagher is the first physician from Nationwide Children’s to be elected to the association.

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Nationwide Children's Hospital to Expand Mental and Behavioral Health Research

Nationwide Children's Hospital has created a new Institute for Mental and Behavioral Health Research, significantly expanding opportunities to seek a better understanding of mental and behavioral health in children and to develop better diagnostics, treatment and preventative strategies. Leading this new institute will be Eric Youngstrom, PhD, a nationally renowned psychologist specializing in the relationship of mood and psychopathology, and the clinical assessment of children and families.

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Dr. Alex Kemper Named Division Chief in Ambulatory Pediatrics

Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS, has been appointed division chief of Ambulatory Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University.

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Study Finds Moderate Screen Time May Speed Recovery in Youth with Concussion

Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have found that moderate screen time might be better for concussion recovery than no screen time at all. In a study published today in British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers found that about 141 minutes of screen time each day for the first three days following concussion was associated with quicker recovery.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital Researcher Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, Honored by AAAS as Lifetime AAAS Fellow
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital Researcher Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, Honored by AAAS as Lifetime AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute (AWRI) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most distinct honors within the scientific community.

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Injury Prediction Rule Could Decrease Radiographic Imaging Exposure in Children, Study Shows

In a study published today in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, researchers in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) – led by Julie Leonard, MD, MPH at Nationwide Children’s Hospital –created a highly accurate cervical spine injury prediction rule. When applied, the rule decreases the use of CT by more than 50% without missing clinically significant injuries or increasing normal X-ray use.

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