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An analysis of your child’s gait (the way a person walks) is done at the Honda Center for Gait Analysis & Mobility Enhancement (GAME Center). Video, motion markers, force plates, and muscle activity are all examined in this test. This allows us to study the way your child walks and recommend things that may improve his or her gait and walking ability. How to Prepare for the Test Your child should wear close-fitting clothes such as a bathing suit or spandex (stretchy) shorts and top....

Contact Information Call us at: (614) 722-6630 Fax us at: (614) 722-3122 Pediatric UrologyPatient Care Services700 Children’s DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map) Learn more about Jessica E. Foster Academic and Clinical Areas Urology Nurse Practitioner Team Primary Department Pediatric Urology Education Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 07/01/2021 Board Certifications Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner- Primary Care Graduate School Ohio State University College of Nursing Date Completed: 05/03/2020 Contact Information Pediatric Urology...

Contact Information Call us at: (614) 355-1381 Email Katherine A Barnes, PT, DPT, RRT Clinical Therapies479 Parsons AveColumbus, OH 43215 (map) Learn more about Katherine A Barnes Biography Katie Barnes, PT, DPT, RRT, is an adolescent neuro physical therapist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, treating patients of various neurological conditions and works in the multidisciplinary outpatient Cerebral Palsy and Limb Lengthening clinics. She is a 2012 graduate of The Ohio State University....

Contact Information Call us at: (614) 722-4625 Fax us at: (614) 722-4633 PediatricsNeurology700 Children’s DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map) Learn more about Laurel A. Slaughter Biography Laurel A. Slaughter, MD, is an attending pediatric neurologist at Nationwide Children's and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Slaughter’s clinical focus at Nationwide Children's is in the burgeoning area of neonatal neurology, primarily in outpatient follow-up of neonates with neurologic conditions....

Although childhood cancer is rare, leukemia is the most common form. The cause of leukemia is not known, but we do know it is not contagious (“catching”). It is not thought to be hereditary (inherited from your parents). Some research suggests that things in the environment may play a role in developing this type of cancer. Leukemia is a cancer of the bone marrow. Bone marrow is the tissue found inside many of the bones of the body....

M E D I A A D V I S O R YWHAT: Love Me Never Shake Me Bibs to be Distributed Across the State of OhioKiwanis Club of Columbus and Prevent Child Abuse Ohio of the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Childrens Hospital Team Up to Spread Awareness of Shaken Baby SyndromeWHEN: Monday, September 22, 2008NoonWHERE: The Athletic Club of Columbus136 E. Broad St.Columbus, OH 43215ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), one of the most violent forms of child abuse, accounts for the majority of severe brain injuries in children under one year of age....

It is because of the generosity of our donors that Nationwide Children’s a world-renowned pediatric healthcare institution. We are at the threshold of some truly extraordinary work. On one side stands our past and present – an institution conducting remarkable research and providing the best treatment options available to children and their families. On the other side lies our future, our aspirations. A place where existing limitations in pediatric healthcare are not only stretched but broken....

The following information is provided to let you learn more about our current pharmacy resident class at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Please feel free to contact our residents if you would like their insight regarding any of our four pharmacy residency programs. Master of Science and PGY1/PGY2 Residency in Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Residents Paige Lavender, PharmD PGY2 Master of Science and Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Resident Hometown: Murray, KY Undergraduate School: Purdue University Pharmacy School: Purdue University College of Pharmacy Why I Chose Nationwide Children’s: When looking for pharmacy administration residencies, it was very important to me to choose a place dedicated to helping me grow not only as a well-rounded clinician, but as a strong leader....

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the use of oxygen at concentrations and pressures higher than those in daily life as a form of treatment for a health problem. The treatment has been scientifically proven to be effective for conditions such as carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression sickness and difficult-to-treat infections in parts of the body with poor blood supply. HBOT has also been proposed for cerebral palsy. This idea is based on the theory that, among damaged brain cells, there are inactive or dormant cells that have the potential to recover....

Nationwide Children’s Hospital was named one of the most wired hospitals in the country in Hospitals and Health Network’s 2013 Most Wired list. This prestigious list includes more than 250 hospitals around the country who have proven to be leaders in healthcare information technology. Nationwide Children’s was one of only thirteen children’s hospitals in the country to earn a spot on this list. Nationwide Children’s IT staff supports quality and safety through the Zero Hero initiative, which includes a tracking system to measure and analyze patient care complications, seeking to increase patient safety....

Tournament officials announced today that the ninth annual Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, held September 21-27, 2015 at The Ohio State University Golf Club - Scarlet Course, raised a total of $1,400,212 for charitable organizations, including $1,253,322 for pediatric cancer research and treatment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The total marks the largest single-season charitable donation raised by the tournament for the hospital in the nine-year history of the Web.com Tour Finals event....

Nationwide Children’s Hospital will host a series of Bariatric Surgery Information Sessions to discuss weight loss surgery options available for teens to combat obesity. The sessions will be offered from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Nationwide Children’s Ann Isaly Wolfe Education Center, 575 S. 18th Street, Columbus, on the following Tuesdays in 2014: July 29; August 26; September 30; October 21; November 18 and December 16. The sessions are led by surgeon Marc Michalsky, MD, of the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition at Nationwide Children’s, and feature a former bariatric surgery patient talking about his/her experience....

From Tuesday, May 8 - Tuesday, May 29, 2012 all parties are invited to comment on proposed new measures for Adolescent Health performance measures. These measures will be considered for the Children’s Core Set of measures that are reported by states for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The goals are to improve and strengthen the initial core child health care quality measures established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and to develop new and emerging quality measures in this important area....

Given the large potential beneficial impact on a population level, the guidelines recommend that age appropriate peanut-containing foods be introduced to all infants prior to 11 months of age, and ideally closer to 6 months of age. Download Now Preventing Peanut Allergy Practice Tool Given the large potential beneficial impact on a population level, the guidelines recommend that age appropriate peanut-containing foods be introduced to all infants prior to 11 months of age, and ideally closer to 6 months of age....

Everyone has dealt with sore, tense or cramped muscles from time to time and as a physical therapist, I regularly see patients in our clinics who benefit from soft tissue work to help ease muscular tension and decrease pain. Soft tissue is the tissue that connects parts of the body to each other; this includes muscles, tendons, vessels and even peripheral nerves. While physical therapy regularly consists of 1-2 visits per week, it is beneficial to continue doing soft tissue work more frequently....

Contact Information Call us at: (734) 764-4152 Fax us at: (734) 936-7984 General Pediatric Surgery1540 East Hospital DrAnn Arbor, MI 48109 (map) Learn more about Ronald B. Hirschl Education Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 03/01/2022 Board Certifications Pediatric Surgery Surgery Surgical Critical Care Residency Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Date Completed: 06/30/1991 Residency Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Date Completed: 06/30/1990 Residency University of Michigan Hospitals Date Completed: 06/30/1989 Internship...

When is the last time you heard (or said) something like this: “Oh, it’s just baby fat. They’ll grow out of it.” As parents, we need to understand that the growing weight problem in our kids can be very real, and serious. Experts speculate that because of increasing obesity rates, our kids may be the first generation to be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2012 more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese....

We know that taking medication can sometimes be a challenge. Here are a few suggestions that our child life specialists have found to be helpful for both pills and liquid medication. Feel free to reach out to the child life team members for any help with medications. Regardless of the form of medication, it is best to set your child up for success from the beginning. First, set the environment. Remove all distractions and give a time limit (“You have two minutes to take your medicine”)....

Date: September 7, 2018 Location: The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH Registration is free! Registration: Click here to register to attend Hosts Nationwide Children’s Hospital Division of Hematology/Oncology/BMT Nationwide Children’s Hospital Education Institute Featured Topics Precision Medicine/Genomics Canine Comparative Oncology Radiation Oncology Clinical Trials/New Therapeutic Developments Keynote Speaker Abha Gupta, MD, The Hospital for Sick Children Katherine A. Janeway, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Stephen L. Lessnick, MD, PhD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases Lars M....

Contact Information Call us at: (614) 722-3425 Fax us at: (614) 722-3426 PediatricsPatient Care Services700 Children’s DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map) Learn more about Ashley E. Nance Biography Ashley Nance, MSN, RN, FNP-C, a nurse practitioner, earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology from Ohio Northern University and completed her bachelor’s degree in nursing at East Tennessee State University. She joined Nationwide Children’s in 2007. While working as a staff RN in the cardiology unit, she earned her master’s degree in nursing from Otterbein University (Family Nurse Practitioner Program)....