Akron Children’s researchers discovered a worrying trend after Ohio made recreational cannabis legal. Many more young kids are accidentally eating cannabis products, and some are getting so sick they need to stay in the hospital. The researchers studied data the Ohio Poison Control Center collected from January 2018 to December 2024. They found 5,387 cases […]
Research
Through extensive research, Dr. Cohen is advancing treatment in mitochondrial medicine to treat patients at home and around the globe
In 2011, Bruce Cohen, MD, joined Akron Children’s to open a program and pursue work in clinical trials to advance mitochondrial medicine at a time when funding for this research was in its infancy. “Frankly, a lot of the large institutions weren’t interested in studying these diseases,” he said. “It wasn’t because it wasn’t important, […]
Study finds increase in non-invasive respiratory support therapies are not correlated with reduced breathing tube use in PICUs
A retrospective study, led by Akron Children’s pediatric intensivist Dr. Jonathan Pelletier, may lead to further review of various respiratory support options used in treating for infants and toddlers for bronchiolitis. Bronchiolitis, usually caused by RSV, is the most common reason for children under age two to be hospitalized and drove a three-fold increase in […]
Mother/daughter cherish the opportunity to work together in the PICU, hope their research will leave it a better place
When Cathleen Tichy-Dreher, known to all as “Tichy,” a nurse practitioner with more than 4 decades of experience in pediatric critical care, joined Akron Children’s PICU in 2019, she noticed that the nurse practitioners and the medical residents in the unit were not working as collegially as she had experienced at her previous hospitals. Advance […]
Akron Children’s research recognized at the National Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference
During the recent National Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference held in Philadelphia in August, Dr. Prabi Rajbhandari, a pediatric hospitalist, was recognized for her study titled Linguistic Services for Hospitalized Children with Non-English Language Preference: A PRIS Network Survey. The study was noted as a Top 10 Article, a prestigious accolade signifying its contribution to the […]
Dr. Michael Forbes named chief academic officer
Dr. Michael Forbes has been named Akron Children’s chief academic officer, a new position that will oversee and align the hospital’s research and medical education strategies and foster collaborative efforts with university partners. Dr. Forbes joined Children’s in 2006 as an attending physician in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), where he also led research […]
