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Ohio Supercomputer Center, Nationwide Childrens use supercomputers to speed diagnoses

Worried about her high fever and severe abdominal pain, a young couple rushed their baby daughter to the emergency department of Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

DISCOVERYx 2019

DISCOVERYx 2019 was held live on June 11, 2019. Thank you to everyone who attended and celebrated discoveries that make a difference to improve pediatric health.

Training Programs

Training opportunities are available for students including The Student Urinary Tract Program in Education and Research (SUPER) Summer Training Program.

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New Study Highlights Urgent Need for Targeted Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Support for Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth

Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital analyzed six years of multistate child death review data from the United States and found that 81% of sexual and gender diverse youth in the dataset died by suicide, despite many receiving current or prior mental health services.

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Pediatric Surgery Rotating Observation in Columbus for Excellent Student Scholars (PROCESS)

PROCESS is an international student program carried out in cooperation with Surgical Academic Faculty in Poland (including the former Minister of Health). The program selects students to grant a 1 month observership at Nationwide Children's Hospital from competing student-applicants from 12 medical universities in Poland.

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The Ohio State University Courses

The principal investigators at the Center for Injury Research and Policy also have joint appointments as faculty members at The Ohio State University Colleges of Medicine and Public Health.

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Home Exercise Equipment

A study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined home exercise equipment-related injuries among children in the US.

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Sound the Alarm: Researchers Determine More Effective Ways to Awaken Children and Their Families During a House Fire

When residential fires happen at night while families are sleeping, deaths are more likely to occur. Smoke alarms are important for preventing these deaths, yet research has shown that many pre-teenage children don’t wake up to traditional high-frequency tone alarms. Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Sleep Disorders Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital conducted a series of studies to identify smoke alarm signals that would more effectively awaken children and other members of the household in the event of a fire.

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Meet Our Team

Samantha Boch, PhD, MS, RN Principal Investigator and Nurse Scientist Samantha.Boch@NationwideChildrens.org Samantha Boch, PhD, MS, RN, is a nurse scientist and principal investigator in the Center of Nursing Excellence and Center of Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research in the Abigail Wexner