General Pediatrics - Director Mayerson Center Safe and Healthy Children - Professor

Overview

Cincinnati Children’s seeks a visionary, dynamic, innovative, and collaborative leader to serve as the director for the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children. Applications and nominations are invited, and confidential conversations are welcomed.

• Leading and developing transformational clinical and research programs.
• Recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty and staff.
• Identifying emerging and new areas of emphasis and promise.
• Facilitating world-class clinical and educational programming.
• Building and sustaining community partnerships to address evolving needs.
• Mentoring and developing the academic skills of all team members.

The Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, established in 2000, evaluates more than 2,000 children per year for whom abuse is suspected from 22 Ohio counties, as well as Kentucky and Indiana. The center collaborates with community partners in the investigation and treatment of victims at its 5,000-square-foot facility on Cincinnati Children’s Oak Campus. It is accredited by the National Children’s Alliance and operates as a Child Advocacy Center within a children’s hospital.

The center implements trauma-minimizing practices in a multi-disciplinary environment including physicians, psychologists, social workers, forensic nurses, child protection workers, and law enforcement. Clinical responsibilities extend to children admitted to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center when abuse concerns are raised, with 24/7 coverage for inpatient care and collaboration with forensic nursing in the ED. The center’s goals include keeping children safe, identifying harmed children, preventing abuse and neglect, and improving outcomes for children exposed to trauma and violence.

We conduct research that informs interventions, assessments, treatments, and teaching. Our work has helped define the national standard for evaluating and treating victims of child abuse and maltreatment. Areas include child forensic interviews, improving medical evaluations to identify abuse, and using parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) to reduce behavioral issues in trauma-exposed youth. Our findings inform patient care and help implement trauma-informed practices throughout Cincinnati Children’s.

Research results are used to train law enforcement, child services workers, school staff, and other trusted adults in the community.

The Mayerson Center provides training on childhood trauma, adverse experiences, toxic stress, and trauma-informed practices in healthcare and early childhood settings. The center offers a three-year ACGME-accredited fellowship preparing physicians for academic and clinical careers in child abuse, including clinical care, research, teaching, and administration.

The Mayerson Center started and continues to lead Joining Forces for Children, a coalition working to prevent and reduce trauma impact in the greater Cincinnati area. Our advocacy has yielded outcomes such as community engagement techniques, ethical academic-community partnerships, and tools like the Family Wellness Survey. Strong Resilient Youth, an online trauma-informed skills training developed with McKinsey Health Institute, is available in multiple languages to support adults working with children and families locally and internationally.

The Mayerson Center resides within the Division of General & Community Pediatrics, directed by William Brinkman, MD, MEd, MSc. The division advances child health through clinical care, research, and education across multiple practices. The director will lead the Center’s clinical, research, education, and advocacy missions with integrity and collaboration.

• MD/DO or PhD with expertise in identifying, treating, and/or preventing child maltreatment; board certification in Child Abuse Pediatrics and/or an advanced degree (MPH, PhD) is a plus.
• Ability to obtain State of Ohio Medical Board licensure for MD/DO candidates.
• Rank of Associate Professor or Professor with eligibility for appointment as affiliated faculty at the University of Cincinnati…