The Community Engagement Core Speaker Series took place on December 7, 2023, via Zoom, titled "A Mother Knows Best: Centering Black Mothers' expertise in autism research," was an engaging and thought-provoking series followed by an interactive component. This was led by an expert and author in Black Participatory Research, Elizabeth Drame, PhD., Veronica Nolden, Tara Adams and Judy Nardi, parent co-researchers. Followed by a powerful spoken word piece from Camille Jones of Elementz. The event recognized the 2023 CCTST Community Health Transformation Awardees:

• Practice-Based Research Awardee:

• Tri-State Child Health Services (TSCHS) & Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

• Academic-Community Research Partnership Awardees:

• KIND – Keeping Infants Nourished and Developing Program in partnership with The Freestore Foodbank & Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

• Adams County Health Department, Dr. Hablitzel in partnership with University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Bruns

• Academic-Community Partnership Student Awardees:

• Arielle Martinez of the UC College of Medicine & Equitas on their project “Risk Calculation for Breast/Chest Cancer in Transgender Cincinnatians: Providing Affirming Screening.”

• Abigail Groszkiewicz & Joseph Walden of the UC Student Run Free Clinic in Partnership with The Healing Center

• Integrating Special Populations Awardees:

• Dr. Shaffer & Krushawna Harper in partnership with Autism & We

• Dr. Anita L. Brentley Community Health Advocate Awardees:

• Steve Sunderland Founder, Cancer Justice Network (CJN) & Founder, Coalition for Health Justice

• Gloria Walker - Executive Director, NAMI Urban Greater Cincinnati

WE C-RAB members share about research. (L-R: Bobby Rogers, Jackie Humphries & Luwana Pettus-Oglesby)

On Saturday, May 6th the West End Community Research Advisory Board (WE C-RAB) hosted a community Stop the Bleed and CPR/AED trainings. “We (the WE C-RAB) had identified the need for this kind of training for the community and were excited to be able to bring this opportunity to Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses community center through our research partners,” said President of the WE C-RAB, Luwana Pettus-Olgesby. The event, called “WE Care to Be Safe”, brought together partnering researchers who have come to the WE C-RAB for feedback, with the Whitney Strong Foundation to provide hands-on life-saving education to the community. Community members were invited directly by WE C-RAB members, as well as through the community center.

Danea Cloyd of the Whitney Strong Foundation demonstrates packing a wound

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow, Cindy Chang, M.D., conducted the Stop the Bleed training with assistance from Michelle Eckerle, M.D. from pediatric emergency medicine and Danea Cloyd from the Whitney Strong Foundation (WSF). The WSF, which is focused on ending gun violence and loss of life, provided tourniquet kits for all participants who completed the training. Dr. Chang had previously come to the WE C-RAB seeking guidance and feedback on her research around conducting the Stop the Bleed with youth. Adam Powell, M.D., pediatric cardiologist, led the CPR and AED training with Drs. Chang and Eckerle assisting. Dr. Powell had come to the WE C-RAB seeking input on a research study involving male high school basketball players and heart health.  

Cindy Chang, M.D. works with WE C-RAB member Vonnie Tawwab on how the tourniquet works

Nearly 50 people were trained, including WE C-RAB members, Seven Hills staff, Woodlawn Parks and Recreation staff and Hughes High School students, among the many community members attending. Each participant was given a Stop the Bleed certificate of completion, a tourniquet kit and a first aid kit, as well as information about participating in research, including tearpads for a sampling of studies. “I work in the ER, so nearly every encounter in that environment is stressful for the families. It was wonderful to be able to interact with the community in a more relaxed environment and give them health information they wanted and seemed to find valuable,” said Dr. Eckerle. Dr. Powell expressed how refreshing it was “to talk to a group so invested and eager in learning about these important skills because they want to support their community. It made for a joyful interaction for me.” The WE C-RAB plans to host 1-2 more community-researcher partnering events this year.

Adam Powell, M.D. presents AED training

About the RPAC and WE C-RAB. The RPAC and WE C-RAB are resources available to across the Academic Health Center interested in learning the research participant or community perspective and improving how research is conducted at the hospital or out in the community. If you are interested in seeking feedback from one of these groups at one of our meetings, or through electronic survey, contact Julie Wijesooriya or learn more here.

Sharon Watkins and Abbey Rowland with the new research board in the CAA lobby

Community Action Agency’s (CAA) Community Engagement Manager, Sharon Watkins, has been a member of CCTST’s Community Partnership Committee for 5 years and has been helping the CCTST reach the community more effectively. It is through her years of service to the CCTST and learning more about the role of research in improving health outcomes in the community that she recently advocated to bring research education and information about research studies to the CAA clientele. “Our community clientele don’t likely know about the importance of research and how they can help,” says Sharon. “I’d like to help connect them with what I’ve been learning because I think it will help all of us.”

The Community Action Agency is county-wide organization that provides a number of services to the Hamilton County area including a home relief program, employment program, mobile food pantry, tax preparation, and Head Start program, among other services. CAA headquarters, located in Bond Hill, also holds a Cincinnati Public Library branch and offers opportunities for the surrounding community to utilize the space. With so many varied services under one roof, Sharon saw the opportunity to help spread the information about the importance of research and research participation to their diverse community.

Julie Wijesooriya and Abbey Rowland outside CAA

With the help of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training’s (CCTST) Research Community Liaison, Julie Wijesooriya, research marketing staff, Jane Howie and Abbey Rowland, and community consultant, Terresa Adams, the CAA now has 4 research study boards/stands featuring research educational materials throughout the CAA building in places where clientele can easily access them and learn more about participating in research. These studies boards will be maintained by the research marketing staff, with a focus on studies that are recruiting the various clientele coming into the building. In addition to the materials, Terresa and Julie have provided some training on the basics of human subject research and research participation so that CAA staff can better guide and inform their clientele about studies. They will provide additional training for more CAA staff in the near future.

Jane Howie and Julie Wijesooriya putting together one of the boards for CAA

This is just the beginning of what both Sharon and Julie see as an opportunity to grow the community understanding of the role of research in improving health outcomes and creating a greater positive connection between community and research. “I am excited for this on-going partnership and tangible way we can connect community with research, and vice versa, for the benefit of all,” says Sharon.

The Community Engagement Core Spring Speaker Series took place on May 4, 2023 via Zoom, with a focus on Newcomers Rights and access-to-care. In addition to the keynote address, “Community-Engaged Newcomer Mental Health Interventions”, with Dr. Jessica Goodkind and community partner, Martin Ndayisenga, the event recognized the 2023 CCTST Community Leaders Institute (CLI) graduates and 2023 Community Health, Partnership Development and Integrating Special Populations (ISP) grant awardees:

2023 Community Health Grant Recipients

Autism and We in partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital: Creating a Safer Cincinnati Community: A Culturally-Responsive Training for First Responders and Autistic Individuals and Their Families

Reach Out Lakota in partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital: Las Vallas Invisibles: Understanding Barriers to Breast Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Behaviors in the Spanish Speaking Community

Cincinnati Health Department in partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital: A Community Health Needs Assessment of Ethiopian Immigrants in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio

2023 Partnership Development Grant Recipients

Mill Creek Alliance in partnership with the University of Cincinnati, School of Planning: Mapping the Unseen Hazards and Assets: A Community Engaged Monitoring of the Lower Mill Creek Urban Watershed

Ohio Hands & Voices, The Cincinnati WIC Program in partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital: Access for All - Infant Hearing Diagnosis and Intervention

2023 Integrating Special Populations Grant Recipient

Equitas Health Center in partnership with University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine: Risk Calculation for Breast/Chest Cancer in Transgender Cincinnatians: Providing Affirming Screening

More information about the 2023 CLI graduates can be found here.

Congratulations to all grant awardees!

Lori Crosby, PsyD and Lynette Fenchel, MSN at the Live Well Collaborative 15-year anniversary event

On April 27, 2023, the Live Well Collaborative celebrated its 15-year anniversary with an event in which they showcased numerous of their collaborative projects over the years. Our Community Engagement Core (CEC) director, Lori Crosby, PsyD, represented both the CCTST CEC and the CCHMC Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at the event, in which their Live Well Collaborative project “Making Resources More Accessible for Sickle Cell Families” was highlighted and recognized with a 2022 Design Value Award.

Accessible and modernized educational materials relating to Sickle Cell Disease has remained an issue throughout the past few decades. In addition to outdaded resources, informal information passed through families and communities is often shadowed by stigmas from past experiences. The team sought to modernize their own educational materials in order to create up-to-date resources that can better help patients and families easily understand Sickle Cell Disease.

To achieve their goals of developing a Parent Sickle Cell Disease Handbook, along with creating an innovative strategy to expand access to their suite of Sickle Cell Disease educational materials, CCHMC partnered with the Live Well Collaborative. More information about the project’s study design and creation can be found in the graphic below, or by clicking here.

Congratulations to Lori and team on their award!

The Community Engagement Core completed the 14th Annual Community Leaders Institute (CLI) on March 24th. The CLI is a leadership development training program offered over five consecutive weeks in February–March. The goal is to build research and leadership skills that the individual can use to improve or develop a health program. Training sessions are designed to build leadership and research/program evaluation skills.

This year’s class was made up of 10 community leaders, 2 community health advocates, and 3 auditors. Congratulations to the Class of 2023!
 
Community Leaders Institute Participants:

• Marcia Boyd, CCHMC: Information Services and First Ladies Health Initiative

• Emmanuel- Sathya Gray, CCHMC: Behavioral Medicine & Clinical Psychology

• Sriparna Ghosh, University of Cincinnati; College of Economics     

• Kaitlyn M. Bruns, University of Cincinnati, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience & Adams County Health Department  

• Florence Rothenberg, University of Cincinnati, Internal Medicine & Cardiology & Food For Thought Cincinnati

• Ruby Castilla, WARMI Mental Health

• Nina Creech, PWC: People Working Cooperatively

• Samu-El L Fowler, BYOD: Build Your Own Dream

• Ashley Glass, All-In-Cincinnati

• Tiffany George, All-In-Cincinnati  

• Nicole Gordon, IPM Food Pantry

• Hannah Griswold, La Soupe

• Michelle S. Hamstra, The Women's Heart Center at The Christ Hospital

• Rebecca Hennessey, Your Store of the Queen City

The Community Engagement Core Speaker Series took place on December 8, 2022, via Zoom, with a focus on community-based approaches to mental and behavioral health among at-risk youth. In addition to the keynote address, Engagement and Data to Improve Behavioral Health and Well-being Among Youth, the event recognized the 2022 CCTST Community Awardees:

• Practice-Based Research Awardee:

• Post COVID-19 Clinic Team at The Christ Hospital

• Academic-Community Research Partnership Awardees:

• EMPOWER: Empowering Mothers and Providers and Other Stakeholders to Weigh in as Experts in Research in partnership with Dr. Nichole Nidey (Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology; CCHMC)

• Caracole in partnership with Dr. Daniel Arendt (Assistant Professor, UC College of Pharmacy)

• Academic-Community Partnership Student Awardee:

• Cathrin Green, PhD (Psychology Resident, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology) in partnership with the First Ladies for Health Initiative

• Integrating Special Populations Awardees:

• Dr. Meron Hirpa, Cincinnati Health Department

• Dr. Melanie Myers, Dr. Michelle McGowan, Kristin Childers-Buschle: The Engaging Adolescents Research Study at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Division of Human Genetics

• Dr. Anita L. Brentley Community Health Advocate Awardee:

• Mona Jenkins, Co-Founder & Executive Officer of Queen Mother’s Market

Congratulations to all awardees!

The 2022 Appalachian Translational Research Network (ATRN) Health Summit is now accepting abstracts for oral, poster, and symposium presentations. The University of Kentucky will host the 12th annual summit in-person on November 14-15, 2022 at the Gatton Student Center on the University of Kentucky campus. Click here for more summit information.

ABSTRACT CONTENT
This year's summit theme is Community-Academic Engagement: Building Resilience Together. Abstracts may be submitted that report on health-related research or programs focused on priority health issues that impact Appalachian communities. Abstracts may report on basic laboratory research, clinical research, community-based research, epidemiological and/or populations studies, outcomes research, health services research, evidence-based programs, program evaluations, or best practices in community organizations or clinical settings, and may describe work that has been or will be submitted at other meetings.

WHO SHOULD SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT?
Individuals with experience or interest in improving health in communities across the Appalachian Region. This may include: faculty, research personnel, extension educators, trainees/scholars, students, administrators, community members and organizations, government agencies, or private foundations.

DEADLINE & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFO
Abstracts must be submitted by Friday, September 9th, 2022.
To view the call for abstracts and submission details, please click here.

OVERVIEW OF GRANT PROGRAMS

The Community Health Grant program offers grants of up to $20,000 for translational research conducted by partnerships consisting of both academic and community organizations/programs or physician practices that improve health outcomes in children, adults, and/or the community.

The Partnership Development Grant program offers grants of up to $5,000 focused on the development or strengthening of collaborations between community and academic partners.

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

Community programs, agencies, physician practices and other not-for-profit organizations may apply as community partners or community principal investigators. Faculty or affiliates of academic institutions may be considered academic partners or academic principal investigators. Each application must have at least one academic partner and one community partner.

New or developing partnerships may want to consider applying for the Partnership Development Grant, while established partnerships are strong applicants for the Community Health Grant.

GRANT DEADLINES

• Letter of Intent (optional, but strongly recommended) due September 7, 2022

• Final Proposals due October 19, 2022

• Grant & Budget Period: April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Electronic submission of proposals

• For RFAs and additional information, please visit the community engagement website

• For sample letters and other resources, please click here

• Questions? Contact Stacey Gomes

Community Advocacy, Partnership & Research Awards - Call for Nominations Due: September 30, 2022

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training (CCTST) at the University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), and the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) are requesting nominations for community advocacy, partnership and research awards. These awards have been established to honor excellence in leadership, collaboration, and health promotion in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region.

Eligibility: Nominations should include information about how the nominee meets the qualifying characteristics outlined below. Self-nominations for these awards accepted. Recommendation letters accepted (not required).

Deadline: Award nomination forms must be submitted via this electronic nomination form by September 30, 2022. Winners and nominators will be notified via email in October. All awardees will be honored at the upcoming CCTST Community Speaker Series in the fall.

Award Types:

• CCTST Community Health Advocate Award

• CCTST Academic-Community Research Partnership Award

• CCTST Academic-Community Partnership Student Award

• CCTST Practice-Based Research Award

• CCTST Integrating Special Populations Award

To download the Call for Nominations and learn more details about the award types, click here.

The Community Engagement Core Speaker Series took place on December 7 & 14, 2021 via Zoom, with a focus on housing as a driver of health outcomes.  In addition to the keynote address, “Racism as the Driver of Housing and Health Inequities” by speaker, Kamillah Wood, MD, MPH, FAAP, the event recognized the 2021 CCTST Community Awardees (see below). Notably, this year, the CCTST Community Health Advocate Award was renamed in memory of Dr. Anita Brentley.

On December 14th, the CEC hosted a panel discussion featuring Ruth Ann Norton from Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, as well as local speakers Nina Creech (People Working Cooperatively) and Dr. Nick Newman, DO (CCHMC/UC) about research and initiatives addressing the housing safety and access in our local community.  To watch the panel discussion, click here.

Awardees:

• Practice-Based Research Awardees:
  UC Internal Medicine-Pediatric Clinic, Hoxworth Center in partnership with UC Department of Family & Community Medicine Research Division

• Academic-Community Research Partnership Awardees:

  • The Christ Hospital-University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Residency Program (TCHUCFM) in partnership with Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation (WHRF), The Walnut Hills Community Partnership Advisory Board, & Equitas Health

  • Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT): A partnership with Women Helping Women, University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice, and the Cincinnati Police Department

• Academic-Community Partnership Student Awardees:
  University of Cincinnati, Graduate Students: Aalap Bommaraju, MPH; Stef Murawsky, MA; Zoe Muzyczka, MPH; and Juliana Madzia in partnership with the Transgender Advocacy Council (TAC)

• Integrating Special Populations Awardees:
  Ilka Riddle, PhD & Kara Ayers, PhD - The University of Cincinnati Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

• Dr. Anita L. Brentley Community Health Advocate Awardees

  • Jennifer Foster; Community Health Advocate, Avondale

  • Bryan Wright; Executive Director, Cincinnati Compass

Community Advocacy, Partnership and Research Awards: Call for Nominations Due: October 8, 2021

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training (CCTST) at the University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), and the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) are requesting nominations for community advocacy, partnership and research awards. These awards have been established to honor excellence in leadership, collaboration, and health promotion in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region.

Eligibility: Nominations should include information about how the nominee meets the qualifying characteristics outlined below. Self-nominations for these awards accepted. Recommendation letters accepted (not required).

Deadline:  Award nomination forms must be submitted via email or fax by October 8, 2021. Winners and nominators will be notified in early November. 

Award Types:

• CCTST Community Health Advocate Award

• CCTST Academic-Community Research Partnership Award

• CCTST Academic-Community Partnership Student Award

• CCTST Practice-Based Research Award

• CCTST Integrating Special Populations Award

To download the Call for Nominations and learn more details about the award types, click here.

We are excited to share that the CCTST Community Engagement Core (CEC) is being honored by local non-profit, People Working Cooperatively (PWC), with the “Friends of PWC Award”!

This award is given each year to a person or organization that has been a particularly important partner to PWC by helping us further our mission. The award ceremony will be held on October 21, 2021.

Aaron Grant, Senior Project Manager at PWC, shares, “Since my first week as a CLI participant in 2017, [the CCTST] has helped us by providing training, grant opportunities, technical support and perhaps most importantly, expanded our network into health care and academic groups, which have led to further research and program partnerships with Children’s Hospital, UC Health, the VA, the UC College of Medicine, and others. We have also learned a tremendous amount by serving on the CEC advisory boards. In fact, much of the innovative health-focused work we’re doing with our housing programs would not have been possible without the support, resources and connections that have come through our relationship with the CCTST.”

Congratulations to Lori Crosby, Monica Mitchell, Stacey Gomes, Kendal Lindsey, and the rest of our CEC team, for this honor.

Story released by Cincinnati Enquirer. Click here to read the story on the Enquirer website. Story was authored by Terry DeMio. Story features CCTST Community Engagement Co-Director, Monica Mitchell.

For 20 years, Monica Mitchell's voice has been familiar in Cincinnati neighborhoods, reassuring and confident as she promotes good health at churches and schools and to business leaders and agencies as senior director of community relations at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

“The voice of African American and other minority professionals is really important because of the trust factor in many cases," Mitchell said. "I bring accurate information to let people know that it’s good to participate in research, it’s good to get a vaccination.

"People do listen."

And for more than a year with the novel coronavirus pandemic, Mitchell's voice has been key to stripping away unease.

"I was reaching out to community members, giving them advice to wear their mask, socially distance," she said.

She worked with the First Ladies for Health in their church events. 

But lately, she has included a new dimension within her message: Mitchell has her own COVID-19 story to tell. She is fighting vaccine hesitancy by telling it.…click here to read the full story on the Cincinnati Enquirer website.

On October 29, 2020, the Community Engagement Core hosted a Pre-Application Session for those interested in applying for one of the following:

• Community Health Grant

• Partnership Development Grant

• Community Leaders Institute

A recording of that session is now available, please see below.

The CCTST Community Advocacy, Partnership and Research Awards honor excellence in leadership, collaboration, and health promotion in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region.  Deadline for nominations is Thursday, November 14, 2019.  Winners and nominators will be notified by early December.  Awardees will be recognized at an upcoming CCTST Speaker Series and Awards Ceremony.

Categories for these awards include:

• Community Health Advocate Award

• Academic-Community Research Partnership Award

• Academic-Community Partnership Student Award

• Practice-Based Research Award

Click here for the Call for Nominations application form for complete details. 

Questions?  Please email Stacey Gomes or call 513-803-0917.

Housing, Homelessness and Health was the focus of the CCTST Community Engagement Core Spring Speaker Series on Thursday, April 26, 2018.  Featured speakers included Rosanne Haggerty, Jake Maguire and Beth Sandor from Community Solutions, a nonprofit organization based in New York City whose mission is to end homelessness and the conditions that create it.

From 11 AM to 1 PM  they led a panel discussion for Community Grand Rounds in Room 6051 of the UC Medical Sciences Building (MSB)

• Click here to watch the presentation.

Ms. Haggerty also presented the keynote address for the Speaker Series Dinner and Awards Reception, 6-8 PM in the Kingsgate Marriott Conference Center ballroom, 151 Goodman Drive, UC Academic Health Center campus.  CCTST Community Health Grant awardees and Community Leaders Institute graduates were also honored.  The networking hour began at 5 PM.  

Rosanne Haggerty is the President and CEO of Community Solutions. She is an internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness and strengthen communities. In 1990, Rosanne founded Common Ground Community, a pioneer in the development of supportive housing and research-based practices that
end homelessness. To have greater impact, she and her senior team launched Community Solutions in 2011 to help communities solve the problems that create and sustain homelessness, including the development of the 100,000 Homes Initiative.

The CCTST Community Engagement Fall Speaker Series featured three events November 14-15, 2017:

Community Health Awards Reception and Dinner

The 2017 Community Health Awards Reception and Dinner, 6:00 PM Tuesday, November 14, 2017 in Music Hall's newly restored Corbett Tower, 1241 Elm St. included a keynote presentation by  Alondra Nelson, PhD who discussed Genomic Research & Health: What Does Race & Community Have To Do With It?  Joining her was Vence Bonham, JD, an associate investigator in the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).  Community Health Awards were presented to recognize community health advocates, research partnerships, students, and community physicians/groups. Click here to view Community Awards Dinner flyer.

Dr. Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science. A scholar of science, medicine, and social inequality, her recent books include The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome and Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination. She is chair of the American Sociological Association's Science, Knowledge, and Technology section and serves on the Board of Directors of the Data and Society Research Institute. 

Mr. Bonham has served as an associate investigator in the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) since 2003. He leads the Health Disparities Genomics Unit, focusing his research primarily on the social influences of new genomic knowledge, particularly in communities of color. He studies how genomics influences the use of the constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research and clinical care and the role of genomics in health inequities. Mr. Bonham also serves as the senior advisor to the NHGRI director on genomics and health disparities.

2017 CCTST Community Advocacy, Partnership and Research Awards

The CCTST Community Advocacy, Partnership and Research Awards honor excellence in leadership, collaboration, and health promotion in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region.

The Community Health Advocate Award recognizes an individual in the community working in service who has demonstrated leadership and a passion for improving health. The individual’s efforts have advanced health and wellness in children and/or adults in the community.  2017 Awardees are:

• O.N. Ray Bignall II, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
  (pictured with Lori Crosby, PsyD, CCTST Community Engagement core)

• Dena Cranley & Barbara Lynch, Cincinnati First Ladies for Health

• Kevin Lab, Saint Vincent de Paul

• Rev. Rousseau O’Neal II, Rockdale Baptist Church (awarded posthumously)

• Latisha Owens, Guiding Light Mentoring

The Academic-Community Research Partnership Award honors an academic-community partnership that works collaboratively to facilitate innovation in research or quality improvement to impact the health of children, adults and/or communities. 2017 Awardees are:

• Shelterhouse of Greater Cincinnati, in partnership with University of Cincinnati

• Super Seeds, in partnership with UC Medical Center

• Every Child Succeeds, in partnership with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

• Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency, in partnership with Freestore Foodbank

The Academic-Community Partnership Student Award recognizes an undergraduate student, graduate/medical student, resident, or fellow who demonstrates commitment, passion and innovation in an academic-community partnership project aimed at improving the health of children, adults and/or communities.  2017 Awardees are:

• Brendan Andres, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

• Ilana Bergelson, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

• Anthony DeMarco, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

• UC Nutri-Ed, University of Cincinnati

The Practice-Based Research Award recognizes a community physician or practice that  works collaboratively with an academic program or institution to improve the health and wellness of their patients by integrating research and best practices in clinical care. 2017 Awardees are:

• Ernest Ciambarella, MD

• Centering Pregnancy Prenatal Clinic at The Christ Hospital

Congratulations to all of our Awardees!

Grand Rounds - November 2017

The Speaker Series also featured Mr. Bonham at a Community Forum and Grand Rounds on November 15, 2017 in Cincinnati Children's MERC Building, Oak Campus, 620 Oak St. 

• View Community Forum flyer

• View Grand Rounds flyer

• View Grand Rounds recording (CME not available)

These events were co-sponsored by the Center for Pediatric Genomics at Cincinnati Children's. Hospital  For more information, email Stacey Gomes or call (513) 803-0917.