About Us

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Chris Bolling is a founding member and full time practitioner at Pediatric Associates, Kentucky’s largest private pediatric practice. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where he is Research Director of the Cincinnati Pediatric Research Group, a consortium of pediatric practices conducting research in primary care settings. Dr. Bolling is involved in clinical care, research, advocacy and education regarding the treatment and prevention of pediatric obesity and overweight. Dr. Bolling completed his pediatric residency and chief residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and received additional training in General Academic Pediatrics at the University of Rochester. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, serves on many community non-profit and child advocacy boards, and is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio and Kentucky.  Dr. Bolling uses his clinical and research experience to help community members to engage in pediatric health-related issues, particularly initiatives related to obesity prevention and treatment.

Leona Cuttler, M.D., William T. Dahms Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Bioethics, directs The Center for Child Health and Policy at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and is Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University.  Dr. Cuttler is active in research, education, administration, and patient care.  She is an elected member of the national Pediatric Public Policy Council, serves on the Council on Federal Government Affairs of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is on the national obesity council, and co-chairs the Policy Council of the national Pediatric Endocrine Society.  She is principal investigator for several studies and analyses regarding childhood obesity. 

 

Dr. Ebert is currently the Oscar Boonshoft Chair of the Center for Global Health Systems, Management, and Policy at the Wright State University.  He is the director of Wright State's Master of Public Health degree program, and is responsible for other graduate-level education programs related to health systems and population health.  He also has been the medical director of the Lipid Clinic at Dayton Children's Medical Center since 2006, where he provides medical consultation and supervision for over 1200 morbidly obese children in the Western Ohio region.  He is an Associate Professor in both the Department of Community Health and the Department of Pediatrics.  He completed his pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children's, and a fellowship in adolescent medicine at the Case-affliliated program based at the MetroHealth Center in Cleveland.  He is board certified in adolescent medicine and pediatrics.  He is a member of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, the National Lipid Association, and the American Public Health Association.  He currently serves on Governing Council of the Ohio Public Health Association.

 

Pat Heinrich is an independent quality improvement consultant specializing in work to reduce disparities in health care. She served for 10 years as the Executive Program Director for NICHQ, the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality. An experienced educator and coach, Pat continues to lead all of NICHQ’s perinatal and neonatal improvement programs. Over the years Pat has been involved in the development and implementation of multiple quality improvement and educational projects focused on the most common issues affecting the care of children in primary care (preventive care, immunizations, overweight and obesity, asthma, and mental health issues including ADHD and Autism), as well as projects designed to improve care for children with special health care needs (Epilepsy, Hearing Screening, Spina Bifida). She has also worked on projects to improve healthcare systems, including access and efficiency, cultural competency, and parent partnerships. Pat has worked with the American Academy of Pediatrics to develop the eQIPP Asthma and ADHD Distance Learning CME Programs, and the AAP ADHD Toolkit. Pat is currently serving as Technical Advisor for UCSF’s ACTION Project serving teams working to reduce disparities across California, and with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital as a Quality Improvement Consultant for the Healthy Kids Ohio Obesity and Concerned About Development Learning Collaboratives.

Dr. Carole Lannon is Co-Director of the Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati. Since 2000, CHCQ has worked with more than 1500 practices, hospitals and health systems, communities, professional organizations to improve care and outcomes. The Center applies its expertise multi-organizational systems improvement and research methods across a wide range of medical specialties, in public health, and in the social services sector. It has conducted over 40 multi-site collaborative and research projects. Dr. Lannon is Senior Quality Advisor for the American Board of Pediatrics, associate editor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare, and principal investigator, of the federally funded pediatric Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics.

Dr. Bob Siegel is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Director of the Center for Better Health and Nutrition. The center is a multidisciplinary program for pediatric weight management and has been treating overweight children for over 10 years. Dr. Siegel is a founding member of the Cincinnati Pediatric Research Group, a practice-based research network of over 40 practitioners. The group has done 16 research projects that include practitioner and parental perceptions of obesity and the treatment of obesity with a low carbohydrate diet. Dr. Siegel did his pediatric residency and infectious fellowship training at Cincinnati Children’s. Before coming to the Center this past July, Dr. Siegel was in general pediatric practice for over 20 years. 

 

Dr. Simpson is a Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Child Policy Research Center (CPRC) at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Simpson is a board-certified pediatrician and serves as a National Policy Advisor for the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality. She also served as an elected member of AcademyHealth’s Board of Directors, the Coalition for Health Services Research, and on a national advisory committee to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recommending a core quality measure set for use by state Medicaid and CHIP programs. Dr. Simpson serves on numerous other state and national committees.  Dr. Simpson has led studies of the quality and safety of care for children and adolescents, the role of health information technology in improving care for children, disparities in care for children and youth, and the health policy response to childhood obesity. She was formerly the Deputy Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Maternal and Child Health Director in Hawaii. Dr. Simpson earned her undergraduate and medical degrees at TrinityCollege (Dublin, Ireland), a Masters in Public Health at the University of Hawaii, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in health services research and health policy at the University of California, San Francisco.

 

Amy Sternstein, MD, FAAP
Amy Sternstein, MD, FAAP, is the coordinator of the Ounce of Prevention program at the Nationwide Children's HospitalCenter for Healthy Weight and Nutrition and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Sternstein is board certified in general pediatrics and her clinical interests include wellness and nutrition education, obesity prevention, school health and physical fitness. Prior to joining the Center, she spent 11 years in General Pediatric Practice and was also a staff member of The Borden Center for Nutrition and Wellness.

 

Jessica Valenzuela, PhD
Dr. Valenzuela is an Instructor in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, as well as research faculty
within Innovations in Community Research and the Community Engagement Core of the Cincinnati Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training. Dr. Valenzuela’s research focuses on community engaged research that addresses child and family health disparities.  She currently partners with community-based organizations, such as the Center for Closing the Health Gap, Nutrition Council, Norwood Service League, and Urban Appalachian Council, in research on community needs, health promotion and outcomes in traditionally African-American, Appalachian, and Latino communities in the Greater Cincinnati area. In addition, Dr. Valenzuela partners with community physicians as part of the Cincinnati Pediatric Research Group (CPRG), a local pediatric practice based research network, to conduct research on improving access and health disparities in community practice.

 

 

 

Jessica Saunders
Community Relations Manager

Dayton Children's Hospital
1 Children's Plaza
Dayton, OH 45404
(937) 641-3385
SaundersJ@childrensdayton.org