As a little kid, Sheryl Handler-Matasar, MD, was fascinated by injuries and broken bones. “I used to put casts on my Barbie® dolls and perform surgery on them. I never wanted to be anything else,” she said. “When I was in high school, I truly fell in love with orthopedics. My mom had a business […]
Provider News
Akron Children’s continues to expand services in Beachwood
Akron Children’s services in Beachwood are filling an important need by providing timely, pediatric care to children in greater Cleveland. A new Outpatient Surgery Center, located at 3775 Orange Place, Suite 102, opened this summer. The center provides pediatric gastroenterology, orthopedic and otolaryngology surgery, with plans to add pediatric urology in January and pediatric dentistry […]
Intensive Outpatient Program now in Boardman
Akron Children’s Division of Pediatric Psychiatry and Psychology now offers the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) on our Boardman campus, completing the continuum of behavioral health care for children and adolescents in the Mahoning Valley. The program is currently offered 1:15 to 4:30 pm but in January it will settle into its permanent time slot of […]
Innovative treatment for severe burns speeds healing, minimizes scarring
Akron Children’s Adult and Pediatric Burn Institute, supported by The Paul and Carol David Foundation, is the only burn center in Ohio that is routinely using an innovative treatment known as the RECELL® System for second and third degree burns on adult and pediatric patients. Treatment with the RECELL System involves taking a small, thin […]
Akron Children’s welcomes new providers
Akron Children’s welcomes the following new providers. Allergy/Immunology Pediatric allergist and immunologist Rachel Szekely, MD, FACAAI, has joined Akron Children’s Center for Allergy and Immunology. She sees patients at our health centers in Beachwood and Boston Heights. Dr. Szekely has been practicing since 2005. She earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Toledo […]
Leah Rawdon receives 2024 Magnet Nurse of the Year award
Akron Children’s Leah Rawdon, DNP, APRN-CNP, received the 2024 Magnet Nurse of the Year Award in Empirical Outcomes from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Leah was among five nurses nationwide selected to receive this prestigious award, which recognizes the outstanding contributions of clinical nurses in each of the five Magnet Model components: transformational leadership, […]
