2012 Annual Report | Cincinnati Children's by Tanya Leach

ILLUMINATING

DISCOVERIES BRIDGING RESEARCH, CARE AND COMMUNITY

2012 ANNUAL REPORT

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Produced by the Department of Marketing and Communications Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Jane Garvey, Vice President

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Message from our CEO and Chairman

Message from our Finance Leaders

Casting Light on a Rare Lung Disease

Tribute: William Kuenneth Schubert, MD

Deciphering the Mysteries of Eosinophilic Disorders

Revealing the Power of a Life-Altering Drug

Guiding Asthma Patients to a Better Quality of Life

Elli Edwards, Jennifer Sennett, Shannon Studebaker

The Convalescent Hospital for Children: Evolving, Educating, Empowering

PHOTOGRAPHY

Donor Recognition

Ryan Kurtz; additional photos from the Cincinnati Children’s archive

Financial Report

Our Leaders

WRITER/PROJECT DIRECTOR

Beatrice Katz DESIGN

Real Art Design Group DONOR RECOGNITION

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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is a teaching affiliate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The medical center is accredited by The Joint Commission; CARF, The Rehabilitation Commission; and the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. We have been awarded Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for quality patient care and nursing excellence. Our pediatric residency training program is approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Cincinnati Children’s affirmatively seeks to attract to its staff appropriately qualified persons of diverse backgrounds. The medical center does not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation or status as a disabled veteran or veteran of the Vietnam conflict. Cincinnati Children’s ranked third among all pediatric hospitals in the 2012 U.S. News & World Report survey of best children’s hospitals. ©2012 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

C O V E R Jordan Scott, 9, has eosinophilic esophagitis and is a patient of the Cincinnati Center for Eosinophilic Disorders.

ILLUMINATING

DISCOVERIES BRIDGING RESEARCH, CARE AND COMMUNITY

2012 ANNUAL REPORT

Dear Friends, In our annual reports, we try to capture in words and pictures the vision that drives Cincinnati Children’s and our many partners: the passion to improve child health; the commitment to discovery, innovation and improvement. This year, we focus on one of the most powerful ways we improve child health: through patient-oriented research. Research at Cincinnati Children’s spans the entire arc from basic science through application and outcomes research, from bench to bedside and into the community. Every day, we strive to cast new light on complex diseases– and most importantly, to translate discoveries into new treatments that make a difference for patients. In this report, you’ll read about three programs that excel in bridging research, discovery and care. You’ll learn about two girls from Kuwait who are in Cincinnati for lifesaving care of a rare lung disease, and about pioneering research that offers them hope of a cure. You’ll learn how researchers and parents formed a productive partnership that resulted in rapid advances in the fight against eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders. And you’ll learn about leading-edge clinical trials of the first medicine that can shrink brain, kidney and lung tumors in patients with tuberous sclerosis.

TOP TO BOTTOM

Michael Fisher, Thomas Cody

These inspiring achievements are changing the outcome for our patients today–and illuminating the way to a healthier future for children everywhere.

We remember 2012 as a year of exciting beginnings but also sad losses. In February, we lost one of our greatest leaders –William Kuenneth Schubert.

As leaders of Cincinnati Children’s, we know that a great and enduring institution must excel in the present and continually look to the future. The strength of Cincinnati Children’s today is a tribute to the wisdom, vision and actions of leaders, staff and supporters throughout our 129-year history. It’s the responsibility of this generation to plan for the well-being of the children and families who will need us 129 years from now.

In a career spanning nearly 50 years at Cincinnati Children’s, Dr. Schubert was a distinguished pediatrician, teacher, child advocate, researcher and leader, as well as a generous supporter. He made immeasurable contributions to our institution, our community and to the families we are privileged to serve. We continue to build on the legacy he left.

We were proud, therefore, to announce plans in April 2012 to build a new clinical sciences building. When it opens in 2015, it will provide space to consolidate and expand patient-oriented research activities. It will allow us to strengthen the critical link between research and patient outcomes. It will help us do more, learn more and improve the lives of more children and families.

SINCERELY,

MICHAEL FISHER

President and CEO

This investment is a mark of our unwavering commitment to improve child health. We move forward knowing that achieving the best results for children will take support from many partners and donors who share the passion to make a difference. Together, we will advance knowledge, improve care and change lives.

THOMAS G. CODY

Chairman

Dear Friends, In many ways, fiscal 2012 represents the culmination of a long, steady financial journey and first steps toward a new way forward. For the past seven years, Cincinnati Children’s has been exceptionally focused on improving and expanding programs, facilities, partnerships and infrastructure to meet two complementary but different goals: to better serve our community’s children and to be the global leader in providing complex care for patients from all geographies. The responsibilities and stewardship associated with these roles required financial excellence in two very different and demanding business models. As the community’s leader in promoting and improving the health of our region’s children and teens, Cincinnati Children’s recognizes that healthcare must shift from a system focused on delivering medical services to a new model that empowers children and families to take charge of their own health. This year’s annual report features a story about our efforts to help families whose children have asthma manage the disease more effectively and reduce their need for hospital care. This shift in philosophy requires a new business model–one focused on strengthening the patient’s self-management skills and on ensuring that when care is required, families have access to the right care, at the right time, in the right setting, which may well be outside our hospital walls.

T O P T O B O T T O M Scott Hamlin, Robert D. H. Anning, Felicia Williams

This approach demands that we work with community partners and stakeholders in ways we are only beginning to harness and adequately support.

In the end, revenue growth stimulated by increased demand for services, coupled with successful per-patient-treated cost reductions led to net operating revenues of over $128 million–a strong improvement over last year. This, in turn, will allow us to accelerate our investment in new scientific discovery, new program offerings, expanded community partnerships and in the infrastructure and family support our patients require.

Conversely, our commitment to being the global leader for complex pediatric care requires a business model based on unique clinical capabilities coupled with leading-edge scientific discovery. To succeed, we must differentiate our services from the national and global market and establish Cincinnati Children’s as the destination of choice for highly specialized care.

SINCERELY,

The improved financial results of fiscal 2012 (see Financial Report, pages 77-79) hint at the powerful potential locked within our journey to become far better at both roles– community leader and global leader. The statistical highlights in our financial report show that we were able to touch the lives of a record number of patients and families in virtually every setting in which we provide care. Increased demand for our services and expertise led to operating revenues that grew nearly 9 percent to $1.85 billion this year. And equally satisfying, our per patient encounter cost of providing clinical care actually decreased about 4 percent on an inflation-adjusted basis, as a result of an institution-wide effort to decrease costs and improve efficiency and productivity. A nation hungry for demonstrably better value from its healthcare system is demanding that we take this success much further in the coming years–and we are committed to doing that.

SCOTT HAMLIN

Executive Vice President and COO

ROBERT D.H. ANNING

Chair, Finance Committee

FELICIA WILLIAMS

Chair, Audit and Compliance Committee

Nourah Al-Shammari came to Cincinnati Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for lifesaving treatment for a rare lung disease. Now a cure is on the horizon, thanks to pioneering research.

CASTING LIGHT ON A RARE LUNG DISEASE

Nawaf and Fatemah Al-Shammari searched the world for a doctor who could help their daughter. By the time the search led them to Cincinnati Children’s, hope was running out for 3-year-old Nourah. She was desperately ill from a mysterious lung disease.

Within a month Nourah was in the ICU, unconscious, on a respirator. While she was in the ICU, her doctors performed the bronchoscopy. The results were surprising: They didn’t find infection or inflammation, but sediments– evidence of a very rare lung disease.

At Cincinnati Children’s, the Al-Shammari family found a doctor with expertise in the complex treatment Nourah needs. And more, they found a research team with expertise in lung biology.

Her parents and medical team began searching for help outside Kuwait.

It’s a rare combination: outstanding patient care sideby-side with outstanding research; collaboration among the doctors who treat sick children and the researchers studying what underlies disease; basic science grounded in clinical challenges.

“I sent her records to many hospitals,” her father recalls, “but no one would accept her case.” Nourah’s doctor sought advice from pulmonary experts worldwide through an online discussion group on the internet. That’s how he found Robert Wood, MD, PhD, director of bronchoscopy at Cincinnati Children’s.

For Nourah, it’s a combination that made all the difference. The best available treatment saved her life. Innovative research offers hope for a complete cure.

“I saw his inquiry and recommended whole lung lavage,” says Dr. Wood. “He asked if he could send his patient to me.”

A MYSTERIOUS LUNG DISEASE

Born in Kuwait in 2005, Nourah was an apparently healthy baby until she was 2½ years old. Then suddenly she became very sick with asthma and coughing. She grew lethargic. She turned blue.

“W O O D ’ S L U N G L AU N D R Y ”

Whole lung lavage (WLL) is a complicated procedure, used to treat pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). For decades the only thing known about this rare disease was that patients with PAP have too much surfactant in their lungs, making it difficult for them to get air in.

What was making her so sick? A lung specialist wanted to do a bronchoscopy exam, but Nourah was too sick to risk giving her anesthesia for the procedure.

Surfactant, a fatty substance produced by the lungs, reduces surface tension and keeps the lung’s tiny air sacs (alveoli)

W H O L E L U N G L A V A G E Nourah undergoes whole lung lavage every three to six weeks. In the OR, Dr. Robert Wood inserts a breathing tube into her lungs. He keeps one lung mechanically ventilated and dry while he fills the other with saline, vibrates her chest wall to mix the surfactant into the saline, and then drains her lung. He repeats this several times. The process is repeated at a later time to clean the other lung.

open. Having either too little or too much surfactant is life-threatening.

Dr. Wood, one of the world’s experts, has 40 years of experience with the procedure in children. He agreed to see Nourah.

Without it, air sacs in the lung collapse when we exhale and struggle to expand with a new breath. This is what happens in premature babies who are born before their lungs have developed the capacity to produce surfactant.

The US and Kuwaiti embassies worked together to get the family the necessary travel visas and arrange the 6,800 mile trip, accompanied by a doctor and nurse.

But if we have too much surfactant, as in PAP, it fills up space that should be filled with air.

Dr. Wood performed Nourah’s first lavage treatment just three days after she arrived in Cincinnati in November 2008. He washed her lungs with many liters of saline to remove the surfactant sediment. Within three weeks, she was well enough to leave the hospital.

There’s only one treatment for PAP: washing the lungs to get rid of excess surfactant. “Lung laundering,” as Dr. Wood calls it.

Though the treatment is effective, lavage is a temporary fix. Nourah’s lungs continue to become clogged with

Not many hospitals have the ability to perform whole lung lavage on a child as young, tiny and fragile as Nourah.

excess surfactant. As a result, her family has remained in Cincinnati since 2008. Dr. Wood washes her lungs every 3 to 6 weeks.

laboratory studies of an innovative genetic therapy that, in preliminary tests, cures it. Nourah and Bashayer will be in the first group of patients offered the new therapy when it is approved for testing in humans.

COUSIN BASHAYER ARRIVES

Nourah is alive today because of the expert care available at Cincinnati Children’s. But the story is far more complicated.

DECADES OF DISCOVERY

Back home in Kuwait, her cousin, Bashayer, also suffered from pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. Not long after Nourah arrived in Cincinnati, Bashayer’s family moved here, too.

Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s have been at the leading edge of research on surfactant-related diseases since the 1980s, when a team led by neonatologist Jeffrey Whitsett, MD, did groundbreaking work on respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants.

Dr. Wood now was treating first cousins–just 3 and 4 years old–with PAP.

The lungs of premature babies are not able to produce enough surfactant. Respiratory distress due to insufficient surfactant is a killer in these tiny babies.

Very unusual. For decades, PAP was believed to be an acquired disease, occasionally seen in children, but mostly in adults.

Dr. Whitsett made an important breakthrough in the fight to save preemies. He identified and cloned two proteins essential to human surfactant. His research made it possible to produce a genetically engineered surfactant treatment for preemies. Surfactant replacement therapy is now routinely used in newborn ICUs–saving thousands of babies every year.

Today, because of Nourah, Bashayer and a handful of other young patients, researchers at Cincinnati Children’s have identified a previously unknown hereditary type of PAP (hPAP). Working rapidly, a research team led by Bruce Trapnell, MD, developed a test to diagnose hPAP and is conducting

OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISCOVERY

“ You have to know enough basic science to be able to problem solve, and you have to understand the disease enough to know what you’re looking for. Cincinnati Children’s brings the two halves together– research and clinical care, tools and patients. The combination makes this one of the best places on the planet to do pulmonary research.”

BRUCE TRAPNELL, MD

Dr. Whitsett and his research team have continued to focus intensively on lung biology and surfactant-related diseases. In fact, their research in the 1990s helped explain the basic biology of PAP.

“When this work began, no one knew how PAP developed,” says Dr. Trapnell. “In fact, there was a lot of misunderstanding.” People thought PAP was the result of the body producing too much surfactant. Piece by piece, a different picture emerged from laboratory research at Cincinnati Children’s.

T H E B A S I C S O F PA P

The work began when scientists at MIT turned to Dr. Whitsett for help. They were trying to understand the role of a newly identified protein, GM-CSF (granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor). The protein appeared to promote the growth of macrophages. It was important to understand GM-CSF’s role, because macrophages in our white blood cells are a key part of the immune system.

It turns out that PAP is not due to overproduction of surfactant but under-clearance of old, used surfactant. Research showed that GM-CSF is needed for macrophages to mature. If the cells don’t mature, they can’t do their job. In the lung, a key job is to get rid of used surfactant. If they don’t do this, the surfactant accumulates as sediment. Over time, the lungs fill up.

Described as garbage collectors, macrophages travel through the body, looking for trash, such as worn out cells or toxins or bacteria. When they find something that shouldn’t be there, they surround it and digest it.

As this insight became clear, a research team in Japan discovered that patients with PAP had an antibody against GM-CSF. By the early 2000s, the Japan and Cincinnati teams were working together.

To learn more about the role of GM-CSF in this process, the scientists created a model in mice by knocking out the gene that makes the GM-CSF protein. They expected to find that the mice would not be able to make macrophages.

Meticulous work at Cincinnati Children’s proved that the antibody was not merely present, but was actually causing the disease.

That’s not what happened. The mice did produce macrophages, but oddly enough, the mice had a lot of surfactant in their lungs. Why?

This finding defined PAP as an autoimmune disorder– a condition in which the body mistakenly attacks its own normal functioning.

The researchers needed an expert in lung disease and surfactant. They turned to Dr. Whitsett, who recognized the mice had PAP.

One output of the research was a diagnostic test for autoimmune PAP, making a bridge from the basic science lab to clinically relevant information. Today Cincinnati Children’s is one of just four centers worldwide that performs diagnostic testing for autoimmune PAP.

Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s have been studying PAP ever since.

L E F T Jeffrey Whitsett, MD, conducted research in the 1980s that resulted in lifesaving surfactant replacement therapy for premature babies with respiratory distress syndrome. R I G H T Cincinnati Children’s investigators have continued to focus on surfactant-related diseases. The research team studying hPAP includes (l-r) Takuji Suzuki, MD, PhD, Brenna Carey, PhD, and Bruce Trapnell, MD.

After a decade of work, we thought we had a pretty clear picture of the basic biology of PAP. Until we started seeing patients like Nourah and Bashayer.

They reanalyzed the data and retrospectively found five other cases. Then Nourah and Bashayer arrived. By now there were enough cases to begin to define the natural history of this new condition. Going further, Dr. Trapnell developed a test to diagnose it, and he created a mouse model to study it in the lab.

Because it turned out, they don’t have the antibody. H E R E D I TA RY PA P

In 2007, Dr. Wood saw a 6-year-old girl from North Carolina who appeared to have PAP. But when Dr. Trapnell ran the diagnostic test on a blood sample, she did not have the antibody. When he measured her GM-CSF level, it was elevated.

Molecular analysis identified a genetic defect in the macrophages. They can’t receive signals from GM-CSF. Since they don’t get the right message, they don’t clean up old surfactant.

This was something new.

The outcome is the same as in autoimmune PAP–too much surfactant in the lungs. But the disease pathway in hPAP is quite different.

Over the years the research team had carefully maintained a database of patient information and blood samples.

L E F T Bashayer Al-Shammari, Nourah’s cousin, also has hPAP and undergoes regular whole lung lavage treatments at Cincinnati Children’s. R I G H T Nawaf Al-Shammari searched the world for a hospital that could help his daughter. Here he shares a quiet moment with Nourah.

“We have all the facilities here,” says Dr. Trapnell. “We’ll do the preclinical studies on safety and dosing. The Cincinnati Children’s Vector Lab will make the gene therapy vector and the Cell Manipulation Lab will prepare the cells for genetic therapy. We have all the necessary infrastructure.”

NEXT STEPS

In a stunning advance, the basic research quickly led to a new type of therapy: pulmonary macrophage transplantation. In the lab, Dr. Trapnell’s team is able to correct the gene defect in mice macrophage cells and put the cells back into the lung.

For Nourah and Bashayer, macrophage transplant offers the hope of a complete cure.

“Because the GM-CSF levels are high, the macrophages we put into the lung proliferate,” he explains. “They go through the lung like Pac-Man, cleaning up surfactant. As they do this, they also get rid of excess GM-CSF, so the whole system comes back into equilibrium. It works so well, with just one treatment.”

“We’re very happy that there’s a treatment,” says Fatemah Al-Shammari. “The girls can’t have lung lavage all their lives.” “Despite more than 20 years of research, not one lung disease has been successfully treated by gene therapy,” Dr. Trapnell points out. “This has the potential to be a major advance, the first successful lung gene therapy.”

Cincinnati Children’s is uniquely positioned to move this research from the lab to patients.

Parents, physicians and researchers all feel a sense of urgency, yet know the work must move forward step by step. It may take two years or more before all the preclinical work is completed and Cincinnati Children’s receives approval to begin human testing through a clinical trial.

“We know exactly where the target is,” says Dr. Trapnell. “By deepening our understanding of the basic biology, we can move toward therapy for these conditions, and we are likely to learn something more general about autoimmune and genetic diseases that can be applied to other, more common and complex conditions.”

In the meantime, Nourah and Bashayer need regular lavage treatments. Is there a way they can have these treatments in Kuwait?

The long-term investment in lung research at Cincinnati Children’s has had an enormous impact. It bridged the gap between understanding basic biology and advancing care to improve the health of children.

Dr. Wood has begun training Kuwaiti physicians to perform whole lung lavage in children as small as Nourah and Bashayer. As a first step, a Kuwaiti team visited Cincinnati Children’s in April to observe the procedure. A second trip for more training and hands-on experience is being planned, in preparation for the children to return to Kuwait.

Basic science studies of surfactant led to a lifesaving treatment for respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants and to an ongoing interest in other surfactantrelated diseases, including PAP.

“They deserve to be home,” Dr. Wood says.

Studying hPAP led to inventing a new procedure– pulmonary macrophage transplantation. “It’s not just a new treatment,” Dr. Trapnell says, “but a new class of treatment.” It opens the potential for new therapeutic approaches to other lung diseases.

WHY STUDY RARE DISEASE?

PAP is a very rare disease–fortunately. One of the reasons to focus on rare diseases, Dr. Trapnell points out, is that they typically have a single cause that can be isolated and studied.

The possibilities are speculative at this stage. But that’s a critical part of clinical science: linking clinical need, creative thinking and meticulous basic science to push the boundaries of knowledge, advance care and improve outcomes for patients.

Autoimmune PAP is caused by an antibody that attacks only one protein in a single signaling pathway that macrophages require to function normally. Hereditary PAP is caused by a defect in another single component of the same signaling pathway.

Cincinnati Children’s is proud to be at the forefront of such cutting-edge translational research.

W I L L I A M K U E N N E T H S C H U B E RT, M D JULY 12, 1926–FEBRUARY 25, 2012

The Cincinnati Children’s community mourns the passing of one of our greatest leaders, William Kuenneth Schubert, MD.

director of the Clinical Research Center. In 1968, he established the Division of Gastroenterology. He also served as director of the pediatric residency program and chief-of-staff. He went on to be chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation (1979-93) and president and CEO (1983-96).

In a career spanning nearly 50 years at Cincinnati Children’s, Dr. Schubert dedicated his life to improving the health of children in our community and around the world. He made immeasurable contributions as a physician, child advocate, researcher, teacher, mentor and leader. And throughout his career, he gave generously to support the work of the institution he loved.

Dr. Schubert was a compassionate physician, a brilliant diagnostician and an outstanding educator. He inspired generations of pediatricians and pediatric specialists.

A Cincinnati native, Dr. Schubert attended the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency and fellowship training at Cincinnati Children’s. After seven years in private practice, he joined Cincinnati Children’s full-time in 1963, as the founding

As a scientist, he did important research on liver disease, cholesterol, iron deficiency and Reye syndrome. He was a model of the clinician/researcher and encouraged physicians to pursue research careers.

As a child advocate, he was a spokesman for the position that no child should be turned away for lack of ability to pay. He worked tirelessly to pass the Hamilton County Health and Hospitalization tax levy and to consolidate pediatric care at Cincinnati Children’s, so that all kids could be treated equally.

AWA R D S H O N O R I N G D R . S C H U B E RT 1 9 8 9 William Cooper Procter Medallion (Cincinnati Children’s) 1 9 9 1 Daniel Drake Medal (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine)

Under his leadership as chairman of Pediatrics and president and CEO, Cincinnati Children’s grew in clinical and research programs, recruited world-class talent and added new facilities. After he retired in 1996, Dr. Schubert continued to serve Cincinnati Children’s as a trustee, advisor and elder statesman.

Distinguished Alumni Award (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine) 1992

Lifetime Hero Award (Cincinnati Business Courier) 2003

Murray Davidson Award (American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Gastroenterology) 2003

2 0 0 4 Great Living Cincinnatian (Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber) 2 0 1 1 Business Hall of Fame (Jr. Achievement of Greater Cincinnati)

Ashton Burke learns about eosinophils during lab day, when patients with eosinophilic disorders get to meet researchers and have fun playing educational games modeled on real research activities.

DECIPHERING THE MYSTERIES OF EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS

“ I remember telling my daughter Jori, when she was 14 years old, that she would not be able to eat food anymore,” recalls Ellyn Kodroff. “We sat at the kitchen table and sobbed as she took small sips of the vile-tasting formula, the only thing she could now have.” Jori, now 20, has an eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorder (EGID). She and her parents travel to Cincinnati Children’s from Chicago every three months so that she can be treated by the Cincinnati Center for Eosinophilic Disorders (CCED), led by Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD.

“Food is far more than just nourishment,” says Karen Philip, whose 12-year-old daughter, Grace, lives with an EGID. “It is an expression of our cultures and traditions. To have to view something so life- and soul-sustaining as a physical threat is daunting and, at times, exhausting.”

Cincinnati Children’s has become the acknowledged leader in treating and studying eosinophilic disorders–newly recognized conditions in which the body’s immune system treats food as a harmful entity, a foreign invader.

DECIPHERING THE MYSTERY

A growing number of patients around the world face the challenge of living with and finding care for eosinophilic conditions. In the last decade, rates of many types of allergic diseases have skyrocketed. EGIDs now affect as many as one in 1,000 people. Though they are more common than inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn’s disease in children, EGIDs are not yet as widely known and are often misdiagnosed.

In response to food, the body rapidly produces too many immune cells called eosinophils. The cells attack the pathway that food takes–esophagus, stomach, intestines and other organs. The eosinophils trigger chronic inflammation, pain and tissue damage. Individuals with EGID suffer from growth problems, stomach cramps, vomiting and diarrhea, and have trouble swallowing.

During a recent orientation session for new patients at the CCED, several families talked about their difficulties of finding expert care: “My doctor had only seen one other patient with this condition,” said one. “You’re kind of a mystery,” said another.

Some patients do well if they eliminate specific foods from their diet. Others are forced to stop eating all food and live on a liquid formula diet. The social, emotional and psychological effects can be staggering.

Cincinnati Children’s is at the forefront of deciphering the mystery by bringing eosinophilic disorders to the attention of the medical community, as well as conducting research to understand these conditions and advance care.

Lab day is open to patients and family members of all ages. Here a youngster gets his first look through a microscope. Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD (at left), leads the Cincinnati Center for Eosinophilic Disorders. Here he meets with postdoctoral research fellow Ting Wen, PhD. LEFT

RIGHT

The work began in 1999, with one child.

At the time, there had been only a few reports in medical journals about patients who were thought to have reflux disease but did not respond to medication and had elevated eosinophils. Not much was known about the condition.

Gastroenterologist Philip Putnam, MD, had a new patient in clinic. A biopsy sample of the child’s esophagus showed a lot of eosinophils.

The Cincinnati Children’s team wanted to understand more about these mysterious conditions: How to recognize them. How to diagnose them. The underlying biological pathways. How to make life better for patients who suffer with them.

He consulted with Dr. Rothenberg, director of the Division of Allergy/Immunology, who had done extensive basic research on eosinophils and their role in triggering allergic inflammation. That first patient at Cincinnati Children’s was soon followed by others. Dr. Putnam and Dr. Rothenberg started holding a combined clinic and meeting to talk about what they were seeing. Soon pathologist Margaret Collins, MD, joined their team.

From that small beginning, a comprehensive patient care and research program grew. It was the first of its kind anywhere. PA RT N E R I N G TO A DVA N C E R E S E A RC H

Linking clinical and research expertise was critical to the program’s success. “We’d be flying blind without the basic

research,” Dr. Putnam points out. “We’d only be able to look at the end of the chain–the cells under a microscope. We wouldn’t understand the processes.”

TRANSFORMING THE LANDSCAPE

Today the CCED is the world’s largest, most experienced clinical program for EGIDs, and the most productive research center.

As with any new research endeavor, securing funding to pursue new ideas was vital. In addition to traditional federal research grant funding, the partnership and investment of private donors proved essential to advance the study and care of EGIDs.

It has seen more than 1,000 children and adults since 1999. Families come from across the country and around the world seeking hope, healing and a better quality of life. The center has brought major research discoveries from the laboratory bench to the clinic–transforming the landscape for patients living with eosinophilic disorders.

From hosting small fundraisers, to securing large-dollar support from nonprofits and foundations, to creating advocacy groups and testifying before Congress, the EGID community quickly established itself as an integral part of the CCED team.

First, the CCED’s research in mouse models clarified the nature of these diseases. “Esophagitis used to be thought of as only acid reflux related,” says Dr. Rothenberg. “Our early studies provided a new paradigm, which subsequently has been accepted–that esophagitis could be an allergen-driven inflammatory process.”

The Kodroff family launched the Campaign Urging Research for Eosinophilic Disease (CURED), a national advocacy organization dedicated to raising public awareness of EGIDs and funds for research to cure it. The Buckeye Foundation, which is managed by the Philip family, also supports the CCED’s work. “It was a smart investment,” says Karen. “Dr. Rothenberg had the infrastructure needed to make a meaningful impact on the disease. We knew our investment would yield results.”

This discovery led to a now widely practiced treatment approach: anti-inflammatory drugs for eosinophilic esophagitis. The CCED conducted the first controlled clinical trial to test this approach. Today, two anti-inflammatory drugs are routinely used to control symptoms, and others are under development.

These two groups have become transformational partners, donating more than $4 million to advance the study and care of EGIDs at Cincinnati Children’s.

In another important contribution, the CCED advanced understanding of the genetics of EGIDs.

“Witnessing their huge commitment is a tremendous inspiration for our team,” says Dr. Rothenberg. “Their partnership allowed us to pursue new ideas, often less conventional and more far-reaching than would be acceptable to typical funding agencies.”

The CCED’s patient data, along with information compiled from its web-based patient registry, revealed that the disease occurs in families, suggesting that genetics has a role.

L E F T Jori Kodroff ’s family established the Campaign Urging Research for Eosinophilic Disease (CURED). Their partnership has provided critical support for research at Cincinnati Children’s. R I G H T Philip Putnam, MD, talks to 4-year-old Ellie Plummer before he performs an endoscopy procedure to test for eosinophils in her esophagus.

In fact, as EGIDs are better understood, many adults– including the parents and relatives of some of our pediatric patients–are finally being diagnosed after a lifetime of struggling with an unrecognized condition.

Dr. Rothenberg’s team also has developed a molecularbased diagnostic test for the disease. The test is currently being commercialized so that it can be available to patients everywhere.

The CCED team has done pioneering research to decipher the genetic underpinnings of eosinophilic disorders. Dr. Rothenberg’s lab identified and defined the role of several genes and proteins involved.

Thanks to these and other achievements, doctors are better able to reduce patients’ eosinophil levels and control the disease. Jori is now able to eat a few foods. Her college accommodates her very restricted diet by making her individualized meals with foods that are safe for her.

These discoveries are fueling research for another promising treatment approach: antibodies against the proteins IL-5 and IL-13. Dr. Rothenberg led the first trials of anti-IL-5 and anti-IL-13. Several companies are now pursuing these approaches.

MOVING TO THE NEXT LEVEL

“The partnership of philanthropists helped us bring three major findings from the bench to patients,” says Dr. Rothenberg. “Their investment helped us build

Ellie was diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagitis when she was a baby. At 2½ she was put on the elemental diet. She stopped eating food and got all her nutrition from an amino acid formula. After three months, the eosinophils cleared out. Then Dr. Putnam began testing one food at a time to see what foods are safe for her. Today, Ellie can eat six foods, including apples, potatoes and grapes.

the clinical research enterprise necessary for truly meaningful translation of our findings to patients.”

Dr. Rothenberg is convinced that “modern genetic approaches give us the technical capacity to begin to understand why people develop the disease–and that will help us develop better diagnostic tests and treatments, and ultimately find the cure.”

But more needs to be done to improve outcomes for those who live with EGID. “We’re making groundbreaking discoveries, but we still understand too little,” Dr. Rothenberg says. “A recent study by our group, showed that children with EGID have the lowest quality of life compared with a wide number of other common pediatric chronic diseases. It’s humbling to see the degree of patient suffering despite all that we’re doing. We need to bring this whole field to a higher level– and we’re well positioned to do that.”

The patients and philanthropists who have run this race with him look forward to the day when they will cross the finish line together. “I believe Dr. Rothenberg will find a cure,” Ellyn Kodroff says. “Then Jori and all the others suffering will have the opportunity to eat and enjoy life again.”

David Franz, MD, launched a clinic for patients with tuberous sclerosis (TS) in 1992. Today the TS program at Cincinnati Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest and is recognized for clinical excellence and leadership in clinical research.

REVEALING THE POWER O F A L I F E - A LT E R I N G D RU G

Alyssa Loftus was a baby when she was diagnosed with a rare disease. Little was known about it, and there were very few specialized clinics in the country to serve patients with it. Since there was no clinic for her in Cincinnati, Alyssa’s parents traveled over 600 miles to take her to the nearest specialist–and he was about to retire.

Every patient is affected differently. In some, symptoms are mild. In others, they’re severe. Though the TS tumors are not cancerous, they can be devastating and life-threatening. Tumors in the brain can cause seizures, autism and profound developmental delay. Tumors can destroy kidney and lung function.

Concerned, they reached out to David Franz, MD, a young neurologist who had trained at Cincinnati Children’s and was joining the staff. Would he start a clinic for patients with tuberous sclerosis (TS)?

From the beginning, the Cincinnati Children’s clinic set out to offer a new level of care.

He said yes, and the institution supported the effort.

Patients once were isolated, and care was fragmented. At Cincinnati Children’s, care would be coordinated. Patients would find lifelong care for all aspects of the disease.

That was 1992. Today that clinic is the largest, most comprehensive TS clinic in the world. It is transforming care for children and adults with tuberous sclerosis.

“All the specialties were there, in one clinic,” says Alyssa’s father. “The multidisciplinary approach was a huge benefit.”

“It was a huge leap of faith on the part of Cincinnati Children’s,” says Alyssa’s father, Douglas Loftus. “The whole team’s commitment to creating a better future for kids with TS is just extraordinary.”

In its first 10 years, the program gained recognition for clinical excellence. In its second decade, it became a powerhouse for clinical research.

Alyssa, now 21, “has gotten the best care available,” her father says, “and it was right here in our backyard.”

The Cincinnati Children’s team has led a series of highly successful trials of the first drug that can alter the course of the disease. These studies resulted in rapid FDA approval of the medicine’s use for brain and kidney complications of tuberous sclerosis.

FINDING HOPE

Tuberous sclerosis is a genetic disease that can cause tumors to grow throughout the body–in vital organs, on the skin and in the eye.

The future is no longer hopeless for patients with TS.

L E F T When Alyssa Loftus was a baby, her family traveled hundreds of miles to the nearest tuberous sclerosis specialist. Her parents asked Dr. Franz to start a TS program at Cincinnati Children’s. R I G H T Douglas Loftus is deeply grateful for the care his daughter has received, saying, “Alyssa would not have the life she has today if it were not for Cincinnati Children’s.”

reasoned this drug might reduce the growth of tumors in patients with TS.

FROM GENE DISCOVERY TO TREATMENT

New information about the genetics and molecular biology of tuberous sclerosis made this progress possible.

Their insight opened the door to the first effective treatment.

In the 1990s, researchers identified the TS mutation in two genes. By 2000, scientists had discovered that normally these genes control a protein, mTOR, that regulates cell growth throughout the body.

They began to plan a clinical study of rapamycin and build the necessary infrastructure for the research. The pilot study tested whether rapamycin could reduce the size of kidney tumors in TS patients and prevent new tumors from growing. It was led by nephrologist John Bissler, MD, the world’s leading expert on the kidney complications of tuberous sclerosis.

The research to identify the mTOR pathway was done by cancer biologists, but the Cincinnati Children’s TS team seized on the implications for tuberous sclerosis. In individuals who inherit the TS mutation, mTOR is overactive, causing uncontrolled cell growth and tumors. But there was an existing drug, rapamycin, that inhibits mTOR. The Cincinnati Children’s team

As the trial began in 2003, there were doubters. Dr. Franz recalls, “The drug had been used for transplant and cancer patients. Skeptics asked what made us think

Jonathan Fields underwent two surgeries for brain tumors caused by tuberous sclerosis. When he developed another tumor in 2008, his physician in New York referred him to the clinical trial at Cincinnati Children’s. The medication has reduced the size of the tumor and given Jonathan a better quality of life. Jonathan’s family moved to Cincinnati last year to be close to care.

it could fix a genetic condition. Some thought it might make the tumors worse.”

the brain, Dr. Franz wanted to try it. Could it also shrink this patient’s brain tumor? It did–leading Dr. Franz and colleague Darcy Krueger, MD, PhD, to launch a study of TS patients with brain tumors.

EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

“The families and patients who participated in the trial were more than equal partners in this research,” says Dr. Bissler. “They were courageous and altruistic.”

While monitoring patients’ lungs, Dr. Bissler found that those with a dangerous lung disease– lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)–showed improved lung function. LAM affects up to 40 percent of women with TS. Could rapamycin help them and others with LAM? A third trial was launched, led by pulmonologists Frank McCormack, MD, from the University of Cincinnati, and Bruce Trapnell, MD, from Cincinnati Children’s.

As a precaution, Dr. Bissler monitored the brain and lungs of study participants for potential harmful side effects of the drug. This led the research in unexpected directions. One patient enrolling in the kidney trial was found to have a brain tumor. Early results of the kidney study suggested rapamycin was shrinking kidney tumors. Even though it was thought rapamycin did not penetrate

The rare combination of wide-ranging expertise in one institution, along with a commitment to clinical

L E F T Nephrologist John Bissler, MD (left), is the world’s expert on the kidney complications of tuberous sclerosis. Here he talks with research associate Brian Siroky, MD. R I G H T Misty Orlando Barnhart with Jo Coombs, RN. Misty was diagnosed with TS at age 14 and underwent surgery to remove a tumor-filled kidney at 19, but new tumors grew in her remaining kidney. She found the clinical trial at Cincinnati Children’s in 2010. “When I came here, the tumors were so big you couldn’t see my kidney,” she says. “Now you can’t see the tumors, and I have 100 percent normal kidney function. I call it my miracle.”

research, made it possible for Cincinnati Children’s to lead simultaneous trials for kidney, brain and lung.

The medicine reduced the size of kidney tumors in all participants. When it was stopped, tumors grew again in most patients. Of those with LAM, 70 percent had improved lung function that was partially sustained even after the medicine was stopped.

In each case, results exceeded expectations. FINALLY, AN APPROVED DRUG THERAPY

Results of all these trials have been reported at professional meetings and in major medical journals, beginning in 2006 when Dr. Franz published data for the first five patients with brain tumors to be treated with rapamycin. Tumor size decreased in all patients.

These initial findings supported the idea that inhibiting mTOR is an effective treatment, and led to larger followup studies. Dr. Bissler organized a placebo-controlled trial of kidney tumors. The national TS Alliance spread the word that Cincinnati Children’s was recruiting participants. 118 patients in 11 countries enrolled.

Results of a two-year study of patients with kidney tumors, LAM or both were reported in 2008. Participants received the medicine for a year, followed by a year without it.

Dr. Franz recruited 28 patients at Cincinnati Children’s for a larger-scale brain tumor study. Alyssa was the 17th to enroll. She had developed a tumor that was rapidly growing and was facing the possibility of a very difficult brain surgery. After six months on the medicine, the tumor had shrunk 50 percent. In fact, tumors shrunk in all 28 patients. None required surgery for brain tumors after treatment. Of those with active epilepsy, 86 percent had seizures less often.

Dr. Bissler presented outcomes of his international follow-up study in February 2012. Kidney tumors shrunk in all patients who received the drug. 42 percent of patients experienced a 50 percent reduction in tumor size. In April 2012 the FDA responded to the data by granting expedited approval of the drug for noncancerous kidney tumors in TS patients. Within hours, Dr. Bissler started receiving calls from patients around the world wanting to come to Cincinnati Children’s for care.

These results were reported in 2010. The FDA responded by granting accelerated approval of the drug for TS patients with brain tumors, while requiring a larger study.

TRANSFORMING LIVES

The outcome of these clinical trials has been transformational for patients and extraordinarily gratifying for the doctors and nurses who work closely with them. “I have the best job in the world,” says Jo Coombs, RN. “We see truly amazing affects of this drug. It changes lives.”

This next, placebo-controlled trial involved 117 patients at centers in the US, Canada and Europe. The outcome, reported at professional meetings in 2011 and published in 2012, confirmed the robust results of the initial study. A larger-scale LAM study was coordinated through a consortium of 13 institutions around the world. The findings, published in 2011, showed that the drug stabilizes lung function and improves patients’ quality of life. In 2012, a citizen’s petition requesting accelerated approval of the drug for treating LAM was filed with the FDA. Meanwhile multicenter research to confirm the study results are in progress.

Says Dr. Bissler, “The families and patients inspire us. It’s deeply gratifying that now we can actually do something that gives them hope for the first time.” “I get passionate when I talk about it,” Doug Loftus acknowledges. “Alyssa would not have the life she has today if it were not for Cincinnati Children’s.”

Antonio Long was able to play outdoors this summer because his asthma is under control, thanks to an intensive education and support initiative at Cincinnati Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

G U I D I N G A S T H M A PAT I E N T S TO

A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE

Charlotte Long is all smiles as she watches her grandson run and play at Cincinnati’s beautiful new Washington Park. “It’s wonderful to see him,” she says. “Last summer was really bad. He was sick a lot and couldn’t play outside.” Antonio Long, 4, suffers from asthma. Exercise is one of the triggers that starts him coughing and wheezing.

health care nurses, inpatient and outpatient services, hospital staff and community partners.

Before his asthma was under good control, breathing problems brought Antonio to the emergency department (ED) several times, and his grandmother, who is his guardian, missed work to take care of him when he was sick.

For Antonio, the path to a better quality of life began last January, during a routine visit to the Pediatric Primary Care Center (PPCC) at Cincinnati Children’s.

KNOWLEDGE AND CONFIDENCE

Antonio and Charlotte enjoyed a happier summer this year, thanks to an intensive effort at Cincinnati Children’s to improve care for children with asthma.

Because Antonio required emergency care several times in 2011, Charlotte was offered the opportunity to meet with Lauren Poling, one of two asthma care coordinators in the PPCC.

TA R G E T I N G C O M M U N I T Y H E A LT H I S S U E S

Cincinnati Children’s strategic plan targets four major community health issues. Asthma is one of those priorities.

Says Charlotte, “I’m so glad I took advantage of the opportunity.”

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and one of the top reasons children are admitted to the hospital. In Hamilton County, Ohio, one in six children has been diagnosed with asthma. The figure increases significantly for children who live below the poverty line.

Having a care coordinator means that Charlotte now has a teacher and an advocate to help reduce barriers to care. Charlotte counts on her if she has questions or concerns. “I feel comfortable calling Lauren when I’m unsure what to do,” she says, recalling one hot, smoggy day when she called to confirm when to give Antonio his medicine and how much to give. Poling was able to review the asthma care plan developed by Antonio’s provider and give her guidance.

Our goal is to help patients improve control of their asthma to prevent ED visits and hospitalizations. The work is being accomplished through a large-scale collaboration of primary care doctors and pulmonary disease specialists, asthma care coordinators and home

Poling also referred Charlotte to another service that made a difference: the Asthma Home Health Pathway. Since 2010, Cincinnati Children’s home health nurses

L E F T Because Antonio needed emergency care several times in 2011, he was referred to the asthma care coordinator in the Pediatric Primary Care Center. R I G H T Asthma care coordinator Lauren Poling (right) talks with Mona Mansour, MD, in the Pediatric Primary Care Center.

have visited over 500 families to provide asthma care teaching in the home.

“Education is everything,” Charlotte says. “I know I’m doing it right, and Antonio was learning with me. He knows how many puffs to take.”

Cheryl Patterson, RN, visited Charlotte and Antonio six times over six months to reinforce the education Charlotte received in the hospital.

A BUNDLE OF INTERVENTIONS

Antonio’s asthma is under much better control, thanks to education and support that gave Charlotte the skills and confidence she needs to manage his care.

She helped Charlotte identify things in the environment that can trigger Antonio’s asthma. She taught her to look for early signs of an asthma episode, so she can give Antonio medicine to stop the attack from getting worse. She reviewed the difference between controller medicine, which is given daily to reduce inflammation and prevent flare-ups, and rescue medicine, which is given as a fastacting treatment for wheezing and shortness of breath. And she coached Charlotte on how to fit the inhaler mask correctly so Antonio gets all the medicine into his lungs.

The asthma initiative also includes approaches designed to meet other challenges families face. An Asthma Inpatient Task Force, led by hospitalist Jeffrey Simmons, MD, and Asthma Center director Carolyn Kercsmar, MD, spearheaded efforts to improve families’ access to asthma medications at home. Children who’ve had a hospital stay due to asthma now go home with

a month’s supply of medicine and a copy of the child’s asthma care plan.

hospitals and organizations across the community to marshal health information technology to improve asthma care. The Department of Health and Human Services launched the Beacon Community Program in 2010 with grants to 17 communities, which are models for innovation using information technology to tackle leading health problems. The Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge collaboration is focusing on asthma and diabetes.

In another improvement on the inpatient units, respiratory therapists now conduct an asthma risk assessment, using a checklist embedded in the hospital’s electronic medical record. The assessment identifies families who would benefit from an asthma care plan, education during the hospital stay, participation in the Asthma Home Health Pathway or referral to community resources.

In March, HealthBridge introduced an ED Admit Alert System that sends electronic alerts to primary care physicians when their patients with asthma or diabetes visit the emergency room in any of 21 area hospitals.

The same risk assessment tool is used by asthma care coordinators in our primary care clinics to assess highrisk patients and by our home health care nurses during home visits.

Mona Mansour, MD, heads the Beacon program for the Cincinnati Children’s primary care clinics. She notes that “having regional alerts made us aware of patients who are eligible for asthma care coordination because of visits to providers outside of the hospital. It allows us to reach out to these patients, regardless of where they go for care.”

When conventional treatment, care coordination and education aren’t enough, the hospital’s Asthma Center offers intensive, specialized care by pulmonary disease experts. PA RT N E R S I N T H E C O M M U N I T Y

Work to improve outcomes for children with asthma extends to collaborations with many partners in the community.

All of these initiatives are keeping kids out of the hospital. Dr. Mansour reports that children admitted to the hospital for asthma are now 50 percent less likely to be readmitted or to be seen in the ED within 30 days, and are 23 percent less likely to return within 90 days. For high-risk children who receive asthma care coordination in our primary care clinics, the average number of days between ED visits or hospital admission has gone from 173 to 325 days.

One effort is a school-based asthma initiative at Rockdale and South Avondale elementary schools, both located near our main campus in the Avondale neighborhood. Another is a long-standing asthma initiative with 38 community-based pediatric practices that are members of Tri State Child Health Services, a physician hospital organization. Collectively these practices serve 13,000 children with asthma in Greater Cincinnati.

The numbers are impressive. But nothing is more impressive to Charlotte Long than watching Antonio run through the park.

And as a participant in the Greater Cincinnati Beacon Collaboration, Cincinnati Children’s is working with

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

T H E C O N VA L E S C E N T H O S PI TA L F O R C H I L D R E N E VO LV I N G , E D U C AT I N G , E M P OW E R I N G

The hallmark of a successful organization is being nimble enough to meet the changing needs of the community. That is exactly what the Convalescent Hospital for Children has done for more than 180 years. While it closed its doors as a separate hospital a decade ago, the Convalescent Hospital has opened thousands more doors through its formal partnership with Cincinnati Children’s, bringing hope and healing to children and families in their time of need.

Hospital for Children has continuously evolved to meet the most pressing needs of children and teens in our community and beyond. “Cincinnati Children’s and the Convalescent Hospital for Children have an impressive history of championing the care of children,” says Convalescent Hospital board member Pam Terp. “Today, we are working together to meet the complex needs of young adults with developmental disabilities.”

From responding to the needs of children orphaned by a cholera epidemic in the 1830s to providing a resource for children suffering with chronic illnesses in the 1930s; from funding research to battle respiratory distress in premature infants in the 1980s to supporting the underserved needs of patients with mental illness in the 1990s, the Convalescent

Project SEARCH is one of the more recent programs to benefit from the support of the Convalescent Hospital. Founded at Cincinnati Children’s more than 15 years ago, Project SEARCH is an internationally recognized job training program for people with significant disabilities.

L E F T Project SEARCH founder Erin Riehle, MSN, RN (center), with program graduates (l-r) Eric Johnson, Paul Wilson and Mary Bodle. R I G H T Project SEARCH graduate Jill Frambes works as a sterile processing technician at Cincinnati Children’s.

The program partners with schools and a diverse cadre of employers to transition students with special needs from high school to meaningful employment. Project SEARCH opens new doors for its graduates and allows them to establish independence and build self-esteem.

coupled with a passionate program leader and supported by a world-class organization, has created amazing outcomes. Project SEARCH has expanded to more than 200 programs in hospitals and businesses in 42 states and seven countries. More than 2,500 students participate in the program worldwide each year, with approximately 67 percent obtaining full-time employment by graduation.

“What began with the vision and determination of one person has grown into a program that provides a future and a purpose to thousands of people with disabilities,” says Marie Huenefeld, a Convalescent Hospital board member and strong supporter of Project SEARCH. “One of the best parts is that so many former Convalescent Hospital children have benefited from the program.”

“The Convalescent Hospital is very proud to partner with Cincinnati Children’s in this program,” Marie says. “It has been a thrill for all of us connected to Project SEARCH to watch the growth and impact it has had not only in Cincinnati, but across the US and around the world.”

Convalescent Hospital’s investment in Project SEARCH has been instrumental to its success. Their partnership,

PARTNERSHIP MAKES THE

DIFFERENCE

As a nonprofit hospital and research center,

advance treatments and change the outcome

Cincinnati Children’s relies on friends like you

for children in Cincinnati, across the nation

to provide hope and healing to the children

and around the world.

and families entrusted to our care.

We are profoundly grateful to those who have

Your partnership provides seed money to develop

chosen to partner with Cincinnati Children’s

new programs and services. Your support improves

to advance discovery and help bridge what

the quality, safety and reliability of pediatric

happens in our research labs into improved

healthcare. Your investment provides funding

treatments and care. Together, we are

for innovative research to prevent disease,

improving child health.

G I F TS TO C I N C I N N AT I C H I L D R E N ’ S FISCAL YEAR 2012: JULY 1, 2011– JUNE 30, 2012

U N R E S T R I C T E D (21%)

R E S E A R C H (41%)

Supports the most pressing needs of the medical center.

Advances groundbreaking discoveries that will improve care for kids in our community and around the world.

$6,376,775

$12,730,129

$11,805,512 PA T I E N T C A R E (38%)

Provides expert family-centered care to all children entrusted to our care.

TOTAL:

$30,912,416

As a nonprofit hospital and research center, we are grateful for all gifts made to Cincinnati Children’s. Unless otherwise noted, this report lists all donors who gave $500 or more in fiscal year 2012 (July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012). We have made every effort to be accurate and complete with this listing. Should you find an error or omission, please call the Department of Development at 513-636-6347.

DONOR RECOGNITION

Cornerstone Contributors These generous supporters have made gifts to Cincinnati Children’s totaling $1 million or more. Because of their partnership, Cincinnati Children’s continues to be a leader among pediatric hospitals. Our research pioneers are changing the way doctors all over the world care for children. Our clinicians are able to provide state-of-the-art, family-centered care, and countless lives have been saved.

Dr. and Mrs. Ira A. Abrahamson Jr.

Fondation Leducq

Ms. Jean L. Abrahamson

Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders Foundation

American Heart Association

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Anonymous (8)

Mr. Reed L. Coen

Association of Volunteers

The Convalescent Hospital for Children

General Electric Evendale Employees’ Community Service Fund

Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Azizkhan

The Cooperative Society

Emma Margaret Goldman Trust

Patricia Heekin Briggs

Dr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Crawford

Estate of Irving Goldman

Mrs. Lela C. Brown

CURED

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Buckeye Foundation

Charles H. Dater Foundation

Marjory J. Johnson Trust

Mr. and Mrs. David G. Bunning

Boomer Esiason Foundation

Ms. Lyn M. Jones

Robert Rogan Burchenal Foundation

Junior Co-Operative Society

Estate of Dorothy S. Campbell

James M. Ewell Charitable Remainder Trust

Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Carter

Fifth Third Bank

Robert T. Keeler Foundation

Cincinnati Children’s Employees

Mrs. Barbara J. Fitch

Dorothy M. M. Kersten Trust

The Children’s Heart Association

The Flaherty Family

Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

Food Allergy Initiative

Kindervelt of Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Mr. Robert B. Gardner

Ida C. Kayser Trust

Kohl’s Department Stores

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Pichler

Estate of Louis M. Sloan

Leukemia and Lymphoma SocietySouthern Ohio

The Procter & Gamble Fund Estate of Lova D. Riekert

Hannah Jo Smith Research for Leukemia Foundation

The H.B., E.W., and F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation

Estate of Dr. George Rieveschl Jr.

Estate of Joseph S. Stern Jr.

John J. & Mary R. Schiff Foundation

Estate of Ralph J. Stolle

March of Dimes Foundation

The Robert C. and Adele R. Schiff Family Foundation, Inc.

The Sunshine Charitable Foundation

Marriott International

Estate of Leroy E. Schilling

Mr. G. Richard Thomas

Dr. and Mrs. Lester W. Martin

Ruth Lyons Children’s Fund

Mrs. Mary Lou Tecklenburg

Roger P. Schlemmer

Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

Mr.* and Mrs. Manuel D. Mayerson

Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund

Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. McLaurin

Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts

Western & Southern Financial Group Masters

Dr. and Mrs. C. Nelson Melampy

Marge & Charles J. Schott Foundation

Louise A. Williams Trust

The Oxley Foundation

Michael M. Shoemaker Trust

Estate of Louise S. Wilshire

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

DENNIS AND ANN FLAHERTY

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)–two words that changed Dennis and Ann Flaherty’s life forever. Their son William was diagnosed with this life-threatening immunodeficiency disorder when he was only 3 years old. After a long battle that included a bone marrow transplant, William is now a happy and healthy 8-year-old, but Dennis and Ann haven’t forgotten how daunting the journey to the cure can be.

to improve care for those diagnosed and to help families facing HLH, the Flahertys have provided seed funding for the HLH Center of Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s. The center is focused on four pillars– research, education, clinical care and family support. “This center will significantly change the outcome for families facing this disease through earlier detection, treatments and family-focused support,” Dennis says. “This journey can be extremely dark at times, and the HLH Center of Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s will be a beacon of hope.”

Determined to find a way to bring more awareness about the newly recognized disorder to the medical community,

Individuals and Family Foundations Cincinnati Children’s is able to change the outcome for families because of our long-standing partnership with donors. We thank the many patients, families, staff and friends who have made charitable gifts to support our work. Each and every donor makes a difference in the lives of the families we serve.

$1,000,000 +

Mrs. Mary Lou Tecklenburg

Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Hamlin

The Flaherty Family

Mr. G. Richard Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. Terence L. Horan

Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. McLaurin

Nancy and David Wolf

Mr. and Mrs. David C. Horn

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Pichler The Sunshine Charitable Foundation

$50,000 – $99,999

Anonymous (2)

$100,000 – $999,999

Henry and Elaine Fischer

Anonymous (3)

Dr. and Mrs. David L. Goldfarb

Mrs. Lela C. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Mathile

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.

Sophie’s Angel Run LLC.

CURED

Mr. Richard A. Weiland

Michael and Suzette Fisher Food Allergy Initiative Joseph E. Ghory Allergy Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

$25,000 – $49,999

Annie Wallingford Anderson Foundation

Richard L. Hunt* Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Jaquet Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell S. Meyers Mrs. Nancy M. Miller Donald J. Moeggenberg* Namaste Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Franklin W. Reilly Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Sepela Rudolph and Marie Simich Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Smidt

Elizabeth Mendenhall Anderson Foundation

Mrs. Mauri Willis

John J. & Mary R. Schiff Foundation

Mr. James M. Anderson and Reverend Marjorie C. Anderson

The Craig Young Family Foundation

The Robert C. and Adele R. Schiff Family Foundation Inc.

Anonymous (4)

$10,000 – $24,999

Dr. Nathaniel A. Chuang and Dr. Jeannie S. Huang

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Allen

Mr. William J. Sinkula Hannah Jo Smith Research for Leukemia Foundation

Clack Foundation Inc.

Amgis Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Crawford

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D.H. Anning

Liam’s Lighthouse Foundation Neena Rao Charitable Corporation

Mrs. Jean E. Wommack

Alpaugh Foundation

Anonymous (6) Dr. and Mrs. Ellis Arjmand

Mr. Dee Ellingwood and Ms. Kaycee McGinley

Andrea Lerner Levenson Dr. Stephen Levitt

Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Azizkhan

Mrs. Barbara J. Fitch

LKC Foundation

Ted and Kim Beach

Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Frank

Jerry and Tyra Markham

Mr. Leonard H. Berenfield

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Gougeon

Ms. Dee A. Martin

Dr. Janet A. Borcherding

Robert Gould Foundation

Mrs. Martha H. McGraw

Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Bourgraf

Mr. Donald L. Grant

Mr. and Mrs. Gene I. Mesh

Mr. and Mrs. Elroy E. Bourgraf Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Gusweiler

Mitch’s Mission

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bray

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton A. Haynes

Ms. Gail Norris

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Brennaman

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Hildbold

Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Cambron

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald P. Ipach

Ohio River Valley Combined Federal Campaign

Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Carter

Marianne and Donald James

Jane and Rob Portman

Dr. and Mrs. Brian D. Coley

Mr. Brandon J. Janszen

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Quinn

Dr. Robin T. Cotton and Ms. Cynthia M. Fitton

Mrs. Molly E. Kaplan*

Dr.* and Mrs. Joseph L. Rauh

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Karsen

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Ritch

The Crosset Family Fund

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Robbins

Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Dean

Walter and Olivia Kiebach Charitable Foundation Trust

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. DiMarco

Ellen and Mark Knue

The Dodson Foundation Inc.

The Ronald Kuntz Family

Dr. Frederick C. and Mrs. Susan H. Ryckman

Dr. Dennis Drotar and Dr. Peggy A. Crawford

Denise and John Kuprionis

Ms. Donna L. Schiff

Dr. C. Dean Kurth

Alan and Cheryl Schriber

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Robinson

CHILDREN’S CIRCLE OF CARE

Individuals, couples and family foundations that gave $10,000 or more during calendar year 2011, or whose cumulative gifts have exceeded $1 million, are recognized as members of Children’s Circle of Care. Founded in 1995 by North America’s most prestigious children’s hospitals, Children’s Circle of Care honors the major benefactors of the 25 leading pediatric hospitals.

Skyler Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald K. Chasteen

Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Smith

Madge Chidlaw*

George W. and Elizabeth W. Kelly Foundation

Dr. Joseph T. Stegmaier and Mrs. Barbara R. Sporck-Stegmaier

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel I. Choo

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Kent

Gerry and Bill Cowlin Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Kincaid

Ms. Elizabeth A. Stautberg

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Cummins

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Kinman

The Robert and Christine Steinmann Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Danis

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Klare

John & Shirley Davies Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Koch

Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Still

Colin J. Dembo Memorial Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Strange

Amy Diamond and Family

Edward T. and Blanche C. Korten Charitable Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard P. Suer

Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Dineen

Arthur and Elizabeth Kuhn Fund

The Sutphin Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. George A. Dunn Jr.

The Richard H. Sutphin Family Foundation

Dr. Nancy K. and Mr. David A. Eddy

Mr. John E. Lanier and Ms. Jane E. Garvey

JS Turner Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Daniel von Allmen Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Yeakle YOT Full Circle Foundation

Mrs. Trudie R. Ficks Mrs. Roberta S. Fisher Donald and Deborah Gilbert Mrs. Jocelyn H. Glass Dr. and Mrs. James M. Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Gregory

$5,000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $9,999

Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Guttman

Helen T. Andrews Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Guttman

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Hayden III

Dr. Diane S. Babcock

Ms. Casey Hilmer

Drs. Wynndel P. Baldock and Elisabeth E. Baldock

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Hirschfeld

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Berman

Dr. Margaret K. Hostetter

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Blackmore III

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Brown III Ms. Madeleine Burmester

The Raymond C. and Anna T. Johnson Foundation Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. Steven C. Carleton

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Keckeis

Mr. Michael J. Hoogeveen

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Lukens Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Millard H. Mack Anne S. and James J. McGraw Jr. The Mead Foundation Blanche M. and Herbert A. Metzger Memorial Fund Mr. James A. Miller Morgan Family Foundation Dr. Ardythe L. Morrow and Mr. Kenneth R. Haag Dr. and Mrs. Martin J. Murphy Dr. Arthur M. Pancioli and Dr. Rita M. Girard Nina and Edward Paul Dr. John P. Perentesis and Dr. Stella M. Davies Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Rabinowitz Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Schiff Jr.

Mrs. Mary Jane Schubert

Dr. Lesley L. Breech and Dr. Jack B. Basil

Dr. Cheryl L. Hoying and Mr. Joseph L. Hoying Mr. and Mrs. James L. Jaeger

The Scoliosis Foundation

Dr. Rebeccah L. Brown and Mr. Dan O. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Seta

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Brown Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Terry S. Karageorges

Mr. Jay Shaw

Mr. and Mrs. Danny R. Brummett-Mason

Ms. Joyce J. Keeshin

Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Citrone

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Klare

Mr. William C. Clasen and Ms. Kathleen Winter

Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Koch

Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Marvin H. Schwartz

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Singer Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stein Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Steinman III Mrs. Barbara E. Stern Mrs. Mary L. Strutz Mr. and Mrs. Davis M. Tapp Mr. Jerome F. Tatar Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Thomson III Max Richard Thornsbury Foundation Mr. Alan S. Threlkeld Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Tranter Mr. and Mrs. David I. J. Wang Mr. Jonathan Zipperstein

Mr. Robert L. Collins Dr. Sandra J. Degen and Dr. Jay L. Degen Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Donelan Jr. Ms. Sonia L. Donoher Dr. Lorah D. Dorn Mr. and Mrs. David F. Dougherty Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ellis III Mr. and Mrs. John H. Enneking III Ms. Margaret A. Everist

$2,500 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $4,999

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne I. Fanta

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Abbinante

Dr. and Mrs. Michael K. Farrell

Anonymous

Mrs. Sandy L. Fritz

Dr. and Mrs. Mark C. Ault

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Gentner

Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Baughan

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew T. Hanson

Ms. Marty Betagole

Mrs. Phyllis Harlow

Dr. Francis M. Biro and Ms. Nancy L. Bloemer

John and Carrie Hayden Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Bohn

Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Helpling

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bowen

Mr. Aaron Hempfling

Mr. Thomas A. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Kiessling

Jay and Karen Kratz Dr. Catherine L. Krawczeski and Mr. Richard A. Krawczeski Mr. Michael Kresser Dr. Ann W. Kummer Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Lah IV Mr. John LaRocca Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Lazarow Mr. Jie Li Dr. and Mrs. Philip K. Lichtenstein Mr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Loftus Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Lovell Dr. and Mrs. Francesco T. Mangano Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Scott Mattis Mr. Ken May Dr. Jaclyn W. McAlees and Mr. Marcus McAlees Dr. and Mrs. John E. McCall Mr. and Mrs. George M. Menyhert

Mr. Steven Messer

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Anderson Jr.

Mr. Peter D. Morey and Dr. Bernadette L. Koch

Dr. Parke G. and Dorothy M. Smith Foundation The Philip Smith Foundation

Anonymous (3)

Ms. Anne K. Morton

Mrs. Violet K. Solomon

Mr.* and Mrs. Neil A. Armstrong

Mr. Todd Moss

Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Speed

Mr. and Mrs. James Barter

Dr. and Mrs. Louis J. Muglia

Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Bauer

Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Myer III

Dr. Lori J. Stark and Mr. Eric A. Grohsgal

Mr. and Mrs. Suresh Nirody

Mr. Daryl Strother

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Beard

Mr. James R. Office

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sullivan

Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Beckman

The Richard and Dorothy Pandorf Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Sylvester

Mrs. Cindi Bedinghaus

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Sylvester

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Beiting

Mr. Ian Pinales

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Terp

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Beiting

Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Preston

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas U. Todd

Mrs. Lois G. Benjamin

Drs. John and Judy Racadio

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Towbin

Mr. Richard L. Betagole

Mr. Raja Ram

Ms. Robin Uhl

Mr. Travis Bible

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Rauh

Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Valentine

Drs. David and Elaine Billmire

Mr. William R. Remke

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Van Der Horst

Mr. and Mrs. Erik Bjerke

Ms. Erin Riehle

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Whitsett

Rose Family Fund

Mr. Brian R. Wildman

Dr. Melodie G. Blacklidge and Mr. Kenneth Dunn

Mrs. Susan Rutkowski

Mr. and Mrs. Jay V. Wittenbaum

Mr. Thomas H. Blalock

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Saporito Mr. and Mrs. Morgan S. Schafer Mr. and Mrs. Brett Schappacher Mr. Matt Schmitz Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey N. Schner Mr. and Mrs. Gregory W. Schube Mr. and Mrs. Gerald S. Skidmore Catharine S. Smith, C. Kenneth Smith, and Philip S. Smith Family Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Rob H. Anning II

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Baverman Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Blanton

$1,000 – $2,499

Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Able Mr. and Mrs. John T. Acklen Mr. and Mrs. James R. Adams Dr. Evaline A. Alessandrini and Mr. Thomas F. Alloy

Mr. and Mrs. Arlen D. Bockhorn Mr. and Mrs. Damon D. Bowling Mr. and Mrs. James P. Boyce Dr. Rebecca C. Brady Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Branson Mrs. Eleanor J. Brenan

Dr. Raouf S. Amin and Dr. Amal H. Assa’ad

Dr. Maria T. Britto

Mr. Robert A. Anderle

Mr. and Mrs. Aaron L. Broomall

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Cirino

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Demmerle II

Mr. James M. Brown

Dr. Douglas F. Clapp

Mr. and Mrs. Paul DeNicolo

Mr. James W. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cochran

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. DeWitt

Dr. Pamela I. Brown

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. DeWitt

Bruce Family Foundation

Dr. Mitchell B. Cohen and Dr. Morissa Cohen

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Brummett

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Collins

Mr. and Mrs. David W. Deye

Mrs. Cynthia Burnett

Dr. Beverly L. Connelly

Dr. and Mrs. Scott E. Dillingham

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Burns

Mr. and Mrs. Dave Cook

Dr. Mark S. Dine

Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Buttari

Mr. and Mrs. Dannah J. Crosby

Alex Dinkel Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Kerry R. Byrne

Dr. Michael H. Cynamon and Ms. Wendy Ressler

Mr. James R. Doellman

Ms. Sarah Dailey

Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Dworjanyn

Mrs. Tiffanne Campbell

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton C. Daley Jr.

Ms. Lalita Duggal

Mr. Stephen S. Campbell

Lewis and Marjorie Daniel Foundation

Mr. Darryl Echoles

Mr. Thomas J. Cash

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Darlington

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Eckerle

Ms. Susanne M. Cassidy

Mr. and Mrs. Shailaja Datla

Mr. and Mrs. Ian S. Edwards

Ms. Carrie A. Cassis

Mrs. Katharine M. Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Barry N. Ehrnschwender

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Cebo

Dr. and Mrs. Adekunle H. Dawodu

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Elder

Mr. and Mrs. Scott L. Chandler

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Dearing

Dr. Barbara A. Chini and Mr. Paul V. Janavicius

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. DelGrande

Gene and Neddie Mae Elkus Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Randall L. Delk

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Elms

Mr. Michael Camacci and Ms. Diana L. Collins

Mr. and Mrs. William O. DeWitt Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael V. Downing

SCHUBERT SOCIETY

Employees of Cincinnati Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who give $1,000 or more in a fiscal year are recognized as members of the William K. Schubert, MD, Society. Named for the beloved and greatly missed pediatrician and dedicated leader of the medical center, this society honors those who follow Dr. Schubertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s example of generous philanthropic support.

Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Falcone Jr.

Mrs. Kimberly Goins

Ms. Mary Maureen Heekin

Mr. and Mrs. D. Vincent Faris

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin C. Gold

Mr. Paul Heiman

Ms. Jena Feichtner

Mrs. Amanda J. Goldsmith

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey K. Heinichen

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Feldmann

Dr. and Mrs. Stuart L. Goldstein

Dr. and Mrs. Michael A. Helmrath

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Finn

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Goodwin

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hemingway

Mr. and Mrs. Marc E. Flick

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley M. Govert

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Henize

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Fogarty

Mr. Louis C. Graeter II

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Henke

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Ford III

Mr. and Mrs. Michal L. Grau

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Herman

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Forrester

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Gribbell

The Herzog-Beckman Foundation

Mr. Gary Franke

Mr. Thomas W. Griffiths

Mr. Ronald G. Hess

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Frebis

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Haas

Dr. and Mrs. James E. Heubi

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Frey

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Habel

Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry

Ms. Jamilah Hackworth

Mr. Ron Hicks and Ms. Michele Fronckiewicz

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Frye

Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Hagopian

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hill

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Fussinger

Hainline Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Hillman Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gaskey

Ms. Joy E. Hamilton

Mr. and Mrs. Harlyn J. Hubers

Ms. Joan M. Gates

Mr. and Mrs. Jason E. Hammann

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hughes

Dr. and Mrs. Rodney P. Geier

Ms. Michele Hanson

Mrs. Martha G. Huheey

Dr. Michael J. and Dr. Janelle A. Gelfand

Ms. Roberta S. Harding

Ms. Mary Jo Hutchins

Dr. Parameswaran Hariharan and Dr. Lalitha Hariharan

Ms. Tracy Inman Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Jacob

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Giesler

Robert & Helen Harmony Fund For Needy Children

Ms. Barbara L. Glassmeyer

Mr. Danny D. Harris

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Jinks

Ms. Julie M. Glassmeyer and Mr. Paul D. Berlage

Mr. and Mrs. John Hartz

Dr. and Mrs. Alan H. Jobe

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Hastings

Mrs. Arlyn T. Johnson

Dr. and Mrs. Jack L. Gluckman

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Hatcher

Ms. Patricia A. Johnson

Mrs. Deane B. Godfrey

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hausfeld

Mr. and Mrs. Rick L. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Goering

Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Hazlewood

Mr. Robert A. Johnston

Mr. Kevin E. Gessner Mr. and Mrs. Karl J. Gieseke

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Irvine Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jarnicki

Mr. and Mrs. Tony L. Johnston

Susan and Roy Kulick

Dr. Mona E. Mansour

Dr. and Mrs. Blaise V. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Laden

Mr. and Mrs. Randall G. Marsh

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Josephic

Mr. Chris D. Lahna

Mr. and Mrs. Luke S. Martin

The Juilfs Foundation

Dr. Tal Laor

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander R. Marx

Dr. Karen A. Kalinyak and Mr. Joseph G. Martin

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lapinsky

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton L. Mathile

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Larson

Mr. and Mrs. Brian May

Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Kalnow

Ms. Michele Laumer

Mr. and Mrs. Joshua K. Mayers

Mr. and Mrs. Bill E. Katz

Mr. and Mrs. Simati L. Laupola

Dr. and Mrs. David C. Mayhaus

Ms. Stacy Katz

Mr. Eric Lavender

Dr. and Mrs. John J. McAuliffe III

Dr. and Mrs. Andrew V. Kayes

Mr. Ernest Lawhorn

Mr. John McCann

Dr. and Mrs. Gary L. Keller

Ms. Ruth Lebow

Dr. and Mrs. James J. McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Kerechek

Mr. William T. Lecher

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin T. McCormick

Mr. Stephen J. Knox and Ms. Betsy Kiley

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Leikhim

Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. McDonald

Dr. and Mrs. Marc A. Levitt

Mr. Robert W. McDonald

Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Kimball

Mrs. Barbara G. Lewis

Mr. Powell McHenry

Dr. Eileen C. King and Mr. Dennis W. King

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Litmer

Ms. Vicki M. McIver

Dr. and Mrs. John W. Klekamp

Dr. Mitchel D. Livingston and Mrs. Carol Livingston

Ariana Knue

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel McLinden

Ms. Sharon M. McLeod

Mr. John J. Locaputo

Carly Knue

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. McMahon III

Ms. M. Anne Longo

Zachary Knue

Dr. Sarah L. Lopper and Mr. Jeffrey A. Lopper

Dr. Charles T. Mehlman and Dr. Elsira M. Pina

Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Koch Mr. and Mrs. Louis Koenig

Mrs. Jodi Meister Dr. and Mrs. C. Nelson Melampy

Mr. and Mrs. Chase M. Kohn

Mr. George B. Lott and Ms. Barbara N. Wurth

Mr. and Mrs. Curt W. Koslovsky

Mrs. Elizabeth Lovett Grover

Ms. Patricia L. Messmer

Dr. Alice Kreisle and Mr. Jon Bormet

Dr. Maurizio Macaluso

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Krier

Mr. and Mrs. Carlos F. Mahaffey

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Millar

Mr. Gerard Kroger

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Mailender

Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Miller

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Kroner

Mr. David B. Malik

Mr. Kelly T. Miller

Ms. Kristin R. Melton

Ms. Maura L. Moran

Mrs. Christine Opdycke

Ms. Judith R. Ragsdale

Mr. George E. Morgan III

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Palermo Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Rands

Dr. and Mrs. Michael L. Mucenski

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Panioto Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Doug B. Rawlings

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Muething

Dr. Ruben Papoian and Ms. Lynn Briggs

Red Bird Hollow Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Alan W. Mullins

Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Pappenheimer Jr.

Dr. Joel N. Myers

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Parker

Dr. Pramod P. Reddy and Dr. Usha P. Reddy

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Myers

Dr. Alice A. Passer and Mr. Barry I. Krieger

Richard D. Reis Family Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. William S. Pease

Mrs. Gayle P. Riemer

Mr. Jason W. Napora and Ms. Alison Momeyer

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory W. Renzenbrink

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Needham

Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Pence

Mr. and Mrs. Brad A. Rife

Dr. David P. Nelson

Mrs. Sandra S. Perry

Mr. and Mrs. Hale Newman

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Pilcher

Dr. Isidro Risma and Dr. Kimberly A. Risma

Ms. Laura C. Nixon

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Planes Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Eppa Rixey IV

Mr. and Mrs. John Nordmeyer

Mr. and Mrs. Kim F. Pleggenkuhle

Mr. and Mrs. Danny L. Roark

Ms. Debbie H. Ogden

Ms. Carrie Pollick

Reuben B. Robertson Foundation

Ms. Lynn R. Olman

Mr. Jay R. Purdy

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Maley

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin E. Quill

Dr. Nicole C. Robinson and Dr. Bryce Robinson

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

JOE AND SUSAN PICHLER

Joe and Susan Pichler have known many families whose children have received exceptional care at Cincinnati Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, often for conditions that require sophisticated analysis and treatment. These experiences led them to talk with Arnold Strauss, MD, chair of the Department of Pediatrics, who told them of the critical need to expand treatment programs for children and teens suffering from

mental illness, an area of medicine that is often underserved and underfunded. The Pichlers responded with a significant gift in support of the Partial Hospitalization Program, which provides inpatient therapeutic care for children and adolescents in a daily, nine-hour program that allows them to go home to their families each night.

Mr. Tim and The Honorable Kathleen Rodenberg

Mr. Steve M. Singer

Ms. Terri L. Thrasher

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Singleton

Mr. Timothy M. Timmers

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Rogers

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Sluzewski

Ms. Patricia M. Tobergte

Ms. Nicole R. Rotunno and Mr. Robert F. Rogas

John G. Smale*

Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Tobias

Mr. and Mrs. Tim Smallwood

Dr. Joseph C. Todd

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Rutherford

Mr. Christopher J. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Townsend

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Rutz

Solomon/Rau Family

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Travis

Dr. and Mrs. Howard M. Saal

Dr. and Mrs. Imre Solti

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Sansalone

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony C. Saladonis

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Sowar Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Turner Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Saxion

Paul and Karen Sparling

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Tyger

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Saxton

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Spohr

Dr. Judith B. Van Ginkel

Ms. Anne Scharff

Dr. and Mrs. S. Andrew Spooner

Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Schell

Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Steele

Mr. Herbert L. Venable and Ms. Julia Abell

Ms. Mary A. Schell

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Steinert

Carl S. and Stephanie M. Vorhoff

Mr. Thomas R. Schiff

Dr. Mark C. Steinhoff

Mr. and Mrs. Alan G. Schmidt

Ms. Yvonne E. Stepter

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher and Kathleen Vuturo

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Schmitz

Mrs. Amy Stoll

Susan Wade Murphy

Dr. and Mrs. Arnold W. Strauss

Mr. James T. Walker and Ms. Kathleen A. Furlong

Dr. David P. Schor and Ms. Susan M. Elek Mr. John T. Schwierling Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Schumacher Ms. Mary Beth Schutter Mr. Christopher M. Scowden Dr. Robert A. Shapiro and Ms. Elaine E. Fink Ms. Julie Ann Shaw Mr. and Mrs. David L. Shelton Mr. John M. Shepherd Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Sims

Mr. Richard Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Gail R. Stultz Mr. and Mrs. Brian Sullivan Ms. Kathleen M. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Sullivan III Ms. Regina C. Surgener Dr. Alexandra Szabova Dr. Nicole M. Tepe and Mr. Matthew Wortman Mr. James W. Thompson Mr. Robert W. Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. Jason A. Walker Mr. Richie Walker Mr. and Mrs. John Waltz Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ward Dr. Gary D. Webb Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Webb Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Webster The Weichert Kranbuhl Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Derek Wheeler

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Wick

Dr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Aronow

Mrs. Joyce R. Wilhelm

Dr. Cindy J. Bachurski

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Willett

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Bankes

Dr. and Mrs. J. Paul Willging

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Barbash

Dr. Jennifer M. Brown and Mr. Richard T. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Williams

Ms. Cheryl D. Bauer

Ms. Kim R. Brown

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Wilson

Mr. Richard L. Bere

Mr. and Mrs. Larry J. Brueshaber

Mrs. Roberta Winters

Mrs. Mildred Berning

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Brunner

Mr. David Wiser

Mrs. Arlene Bertellotti

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Bryen

Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Witte

Mrs. Janet Betts

Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Buchheit

Dr. and Mrs. Edward J. Wnek

Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Burlingham

Ms. Gin L. Wong

Mr. Mark S. Bever and Ms. Nancy J. Burns

Wood-Byer Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beyer Jr.

Dr. Donita Bylski-Austrow

Dr. Linda L. Workman

Dr. and Mrs. Jorge A. Bezerra

Dr. Marc M. Cahay

Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Yauss

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Bible

Ms. Barbara Campbell

Marilyn and Thomas Zemboch

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bitter

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Carpenter

Mr. James Zenni

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Booth

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Cassidy III

Ms. Sharon E. Ziegler

Mrs. Monica Borell

Mr. and Mrs. Ryan K. Chambers

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Borgman

Mr. Weiguo Chen

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bosse

Mr. and Mrs. Kyle M. Chirico

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bost

Mr. Kevin M. Clark

Ms. Mary A. Bowling

Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Cloughessy

Ms. Catherine O. Bradford

Mr. Timothy J. Collins

Dr. and Mrs. Kim Brady

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cooper

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Brant

Ms. Melinda S. Corcoran

Mr. Mark Brasington

Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Cox

Mr. Stephen Breech

Dr. and Mrs. Edward J. Crane

$500 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $999

Ms. Ngqika Abdul-Khabir Dr. Denise M. Adams and Mr. Christopher S. Adams Mrs. Ruth Adams Mr. and Mrs. James T. Aglamesis Dr. and Mrs. Henry T. Akinbi Mrs. Sharon L. Andersen Ms. Michelle L. Annis Anonymous (2) Mrs. Wilma D. Anthony

Dr. Daniel T. Brown and Mr. Mark R. Haggard

Ms. Jessica H. Byerly

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Brehm

Mr. John Craynon

Mr. John W. Brod

Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Crenshaw

Dr. and Mrs. Alan S. Brody

Dr. Gail Croall and Mr. David T. Croall

Dr. and Mrs. Kerry R. Crone

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Elder

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Curran III

Dr. and Mrs. Ravindhra G. Elluru

Dr. and Mrs. Jack W. Gottschalk

Mr. and Mrs. John Curro

Mr. Gilbert Embry

The Charles M. Grant Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Davies

Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. English

Mr. Joseph N. Green

Mr. and Mrs. Craig M. Davis

Mr. Jeffrey Engram

Dr. and Mrs. John H. Greinwald Jr.

Mrs. Kathleen G. Davis

Mr. James M. Grodnick

Dr. and Mrs. Alessandro de Alarcon

Dr. Kelly T. Epplen and Mr. Michael F. Epplen

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Decker

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Fagin II

Dr. Neera Gulati

Dr. William R. DeFoor and Dr. Catherine A. DeFoor

Ms. Karen Fahlgren

Dr. D. Robert Haas

The Farmer Family Foundation

Beth Joanna Habbert Memorial Fund

Mr. and Mrs. James K. Dempsey III

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory M. Feary

Mr. and Mrs. David W. Hammer

Ms. Dawn M. Denno

Mrs. Robin L. Felty

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Hampton

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey DeRossette

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Fisher

Mr. and Mrs. James N. Harjo Sr.

Dr. Peter Dickie

Mr. and Mrs. Marc D. Fisher

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hartman

Mr. Richard Dobson

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Florko

Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Hartman

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Dobson

Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy D. Focht

Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Hartman

Mrs. Clarissa C. Doggett

Mr. and Mrs. Earl D. Folker

The Hayden Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Dolan

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Foxx

Dr. Daniel Heffernan

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Dole

Mr. Steven L. Frank

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony E. Helton

Ms. Lisa Dorriere

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Freiberger

Colonel and Mrs. Thomas Henwood

Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Doyle Jr.

Mr. Alan P. French

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Heringer

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Driscoll

Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Fritz

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher N. Herrell

Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Drook

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Gahl

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Herrin

Mr. and Mrs. Dana M. DuBois

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Gamblin

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. Herschede

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Dyer

Mrs. Susanne E. Geier

Ms. Stephanie Ebken

Mr. John B. Goering

Dr. Andrew D. Hershey and Dr. Gurjit Khurana Hershey

Ms. Elli Edwards and Mr. Michael Scarpa

Mrs. Dolores S. Goldfinger

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey G. Hester

Mr. Jack Goldsmith

Mr. Donald Hiler

Mr. and Mrs. W. Charles Ehlers

Ms. Kathleen Good

Mr. John J. Hill

Ms. Erin Gore

Mr. Charles R. Grone

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Hoel

Mr. Kenneth Kemen

Dr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Levin

Mr. and Mrs. David D. Hoguet

Mr. Michael R. Kemer

Mr. and Mrs. Ozzie Levine

Mr. and Mrs. Irving W. Horowitz

Mr. Steven Kenat and Ms. Heidi B. Jark

Mr. and Mrs. James I. Lewis

Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. House

Mr. James R. Kimmel

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Leyritz

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Huesing

Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. King

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Little

Ms. Elizabeth J. Hunt

Ms. Angela Kinstler

Mr. Mark Lloyd

Dr. Lisa L. Hunter and Mr. Richard W. Smolak

Ms. Shawna K. Kirkendall

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lobono

Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kitzmiller

Mr. and Mrs. Leon H. Loewenstine Sr.

Mr. John M. Isidor and Ms. Sandra P. Kaltman

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Klare

Mr. Terrence Loftus

Mr. Barry S. Klein and Ms. Dawn M. Denno

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Logemann

Ms. Janet Jacob Mr. and Mrs. Mark Jeanmougin

Ms. Lori S. Klug

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lohrer

Dr. Clinton H. Joiner and Dr. Mary E. Frederickson

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Koenig

Dr. Jason T. Long

Mrs. Christina S. Kohnen

Ms. Diane B. Jokerst

Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Louis

Mrs. Suzanne Kopcha

Mr. and Mrs. Leighton Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Ted M. Lucien

Mr. Mark U. Krone

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Junga

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lunsford

Ms. Tina M. Kroovand

Mr. Paul Justice

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Lutz

Dr. and Mrs. Darcy A. Krueger

Dr. and Mrs. Suhas G. Kallapur

Mr. Eric Mailloux

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Kuhlman

Dr. Geraldine M. Kaminski

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Kuhr Sr.

Dr. Janine C. Malone and Mr. Joseph A. Malone

Mr. and Mrs. Garrett A. Kamstra

Mr. and Mrs. Samir Kulkarni

Dr. and Mrs. Peter B. Manning

Mrs. Olga D. Kanuschak

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kuy

Mr. and Mrs. Eric M. Markus

Ms. Lisa Keegan

Mr. and Mrs. Andrej P. Kyselica

Ms. Lisa K. Keehan

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Lamendola

Dr. Lisa J. Martin and Mr. Chad J. Martin

Mr. Thomas K. Keehan

Mr. Matthew G. Lanier

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Martindell

Mrs. Barbara Keeling

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Lawson

Dr. and Mrs. Jack Matyas

Ms. Lisa A. Kellar

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. LeBlond

Dr. and Mrs. Todd A. Maugans

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Keller

Mr. and Mrs. Guenter Lensges

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Maxwell

Mr. Paul A. Kelly

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Leser

Mr. Tony Mazzone

Mr. Joseph Lohre

Mr. and Mrs. William G. McBrayer III

Mrs. Diana L. Nordling

Ms. Mara M. McClellan

Mr. Nicholas P. Miller and Ms. Hillery A. Banawitz

Mr. Edward L. McClure

Mrs. Arlene F. Mitchell

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Nymberg

Mr. Scott McDermott and Ms. Shannon Studebaker

Mrs. Judy A. Moermond

Mr. Michael F. O’Connor

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Monroe

Ms. Mandy O’Leary

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McEwan

Mr. Richard T. Morgan

Mr. Michael E. Ollinger

Mr. Sarah McGough

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Morris Jr.

Dr. Lauren R. Ostling

Mr. and Mrs. Larry T. McGruder

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Moskowitz

Mr. and Mrs. James Overbey

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. McKee

Mrs. Marjorie Motch

Mr. Richard A. Padgett

Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. McNamara

Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Nelson

Mr. James Page

Meisel Family Foundation Inc.

Mrs. Jenifer Neltner

Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Mercurio

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Neville

Dr. Shobana Pandian and Dr. Joseph Eapen

Dr. Arnold C. Merrow

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Newell

Paroz Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. Andy Newton

Dr. Peter Pathrose

Dr. Linda J. Michaud

Mr. and Mrs. Simon C. Nielsen III

Mr. Mario Patino

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Middendorf

Mr. and Mrs. David W. Peck

Mr. Alexander P. Miller

Dr. Orly Ben-Yoav Nobel and Mr. Robert Nobel

Ms. Judith E. Miller

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Noll Jr.

Mrs. Dorothy H. Perlman

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Nordloh

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Pepper Jr.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

DAVID AND NANCY WOLF

David and Nancy Wolf have a theory about the secret of our success, and they want to share that with children around the globe. “A special passion exists at Cincinnati Children’s,” David says. “Nancy and I have seen it in every doctor, nurse and staff member. We want doctors and researchers from across the world to experience that passion and carry it on to their patients.” Through a generous

gift, the Wolfs have funded an opportunity for doctors from Israel to do just that. The David and Nancy Wolf Israel Exchange Training Program provides top medical students from Israel with the opportunity to spend time at Cincinnati Children’s learning from our world-class physicians and researchers, impacting an exponential number of doctors and patients from across the world.

Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Pfeiffer

Mr. and Mrs. Sean D. Rice

Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Scheiber

Dr. Jannel Phillips

Dr. and Mrs. Ward R. Rice

Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Schlachter

Mrs. Vivian Planck

Mr. Kenneth Richardson

Dr. Mary W. Schley

Mr. and Mrs. Sanford H. Pliskin

Ms. Terri A. Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Schmidt

Ms. Eveline A. Poe

Mr. and Mrs. Stacey M. Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. Barry S. Porter

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Robke

Mr. Robert C. Kanter and Dr. Rosemary E. Schmidt

Mr. Mark E. Potticary

Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Roeder

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Schmidt

Mr. and Mrs. Randy Potts

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Rohling

Mr. John H. Schnehain

Mr. J. Dale Proffitt

Dr. and Mrs. Marc E. Rothenberg

Mr. Eugene Schneider

Mr. Adam Puccini

Mr. Ricardo Ruiz

Mrs. Joan E. Schraml

Mr. Christopher Puckett

Mrs. Jennifer Ruschman

Ms. Margie Scruggs

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Pugh

Mr. and Mrs. Craig Russell

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Searfoss

Ms. Doreen A. Quinn

Mr. and Mrs. Brian M. Russell

Ms. Sylvia F. Sears

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Raible Jr.

Dr. Michael Rutter

Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sebens

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Raines

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Saalfeld

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Rechtin

Mr. and Mrs. R. Daniel Sadlier

Mr. Sai Shankarlingam and Mrs. Anitha T. Panchanathan

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory E. Reder

Mr. and Mrs. Jason T. Saskowsky

Mr. and Mrs. Manivakkam J. Shanker

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Sheffer

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Taylor

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Weiss

Dr. Sally R. Shott and Mr. Andrew M. Shott

Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Taylor

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wendling

Mr. Nicholas Teegarden

Ms. Mary Sue Wentzel

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Simon

Dr. and Mrs. Roger E. Teller

Mr. Barton Weprin

Ms. Melody L. Siska Mr. Drew L. Smith

Dr. Nathan Timm and Dr. Kimberly Daly

Mr. Thomas E. Wheat and Ms. Anne E. McGrath

Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Smith Jr.

Mr. J. Raphael Tincher

Ms. Katrina White

Dr. Teresa A. Smolarek

Mr. James N. Trumble II

Mr. R. J. Solway

Mr. and Mrs. William Tsacalis

Mr. Roger B. White and Mrs. Marsha K. Lee-White

Mr. Robert D. Sommer

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin T. Tunney

Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Wilhelm

Mr. J.D. Spahn

Ms. Molly Vance

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory K. Williams

Mr. Randal Spear

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Vanderschueren

Ms. Tabitha Williamson

Mr. Peter Spreen

Ms. Sue M. Vanney

Mr. Steven R. Wilson

Dr. Mary A. Staat

Mr. and Mrs. Drew Verdecchia

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Wittenbaum

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Stecher

Dr. Marty O. Visscher

Dr. Yan Xu

Steenberg Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Yarger

Mr. and Mrs. Bertram H. Steinhard

Dr. Brian E. Volck and Dr. Jill S. Huppert

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry D. Stephenson

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Vonderhaar

Mrs. Layel Zelazny

Ms. Janine Stockmeier

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery J. Waggoner

Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Zengel

Mrs. Caroline F. Sutphin

Ms. Judith A. Walsh

Mr. and Mrs. James T. Ziegler

Mrs. Jean W. Sutphin

Mr. George W. Webb

Ms. Maria Zigmunt

Mr. Richard Sutphin

Mr. and Mrs. David A. Weiper

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Zimmerly

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Young

Dr. Mary E. Sutton

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

“Our family chose to help Cincinnati Children’s because it was a smart investment. They had the infrastructure in place needed to make a meaningful impact on the disease. We knew our investment would yield results.”

K A R E N P H I L I P, T H E B U C K E Y E F O U N D A T I O N

William Cooper Procter Society The William Cooper Procter Society recognizes and honors friends of Cincinnati Children’s who inform us that they have included the medical center in their will, estate plan or other deferred gift arrangement. Named in memory of Colonel Procter, whose visionary gift established our research endowment, this society acknowledges these generous individuals who have chosen to leave a legacy to improve children’s lives for generations to come.

Dr. and Mrs. Ira A. Abrahamson Jr.

Mrs. Beatrice Bluestein

Mrs. Charlene F. Combs

Ms. Jean L. Abrahamson

Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Blum

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Conner

Dr. and Mrs. Richard I. Abrahamson

Dr. Thomas and Dr. Barbara Boat

Mrs. Lois A. Cooper

Dr. Ann L. Akeson

Dr. Janet A. Borcherding

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Allen

Mr. and Mrs. Elroy E. Bourgraf Sr.

Dr. Robin T. Cotton and Ms. Cynthia M. Fitton

Mr. Robert A. Anderle

Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Bradbury

Dr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Crawford

Mr. James M. Anderson and Reverend Marjorie C. Anderson

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Bratburd

Mrs. Geraldine Crawford

Mrs. Mary E. Briggs

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Daniels

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D.H. Anning

Mrs. Lela C. Brown

Mrs. Barbara R. DeGarmo

Ms. Carole J. Arend

Robert Rogan Burchenal Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Deitschel Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Aronow

Mr. Peter W. Bushelman

Dr. Alexander M. Della Bella

Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Azizkhan

Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Cambron

Mrs. Barbara Dellerman

Dr. Diane S. Babcock

Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Carter

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. DeWitt

Dr. Earladeen D. Badger

Department of Surgical Services, Cincinnati Children’s

Mr. and Mrs. William O. DeWitt Jr.

Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Cincinnati Children’s

Ms. Lynne Downs

Dr. Francis M. Biro and Ms. Nancy L. Bloemer

Dr. Douglas F. Clapp

Mr. and Mrs. Todd M. Duncan

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cochran

Ms. Donna S. Eby

David D. Black*

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.

Dr. and Mrs. Franklin J. Edge

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Blinn

Mr. Reed L. Coen

Mrs. Joan T. Ehas

Mrs. Elaine H. Baverman* Dr. and Mrs. Corning Benton Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Beshear

Ms. Audrey J. Dick Ms. Jane R. Dummer

Ms. Anna M. Elsasser

Mrs. Willa M. Garner

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hayden

Ms. Gladys R. Elsasser

Ms. Alice M. Geier

Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Heyman

Mr. and Mrs. Mark G. Essig

Mrs. Susanne E. Geier

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Hildbold

Mr. and Mrs. David Falk

Mrs. Kathleen L. Hill

Dr. and Mrs. Michael K. Farrell

Dr. John A. Gennantonio and Dr. Margretta E. Gennantonio

Ms. Terri J. Feie

Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Giesel

Mrs. Barbara Hoekenga

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Fillion

Ms. Gladys R. Glassmeyer

Ms. Marion R. Holthaus

Mr. Michael D. Finch

Mrs. Dolores S. Goldfinger

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace R. Holzman Jr.

Michael and Suzette Fisher

Mr. Wayne C. Gover

Ms. Shawn Hooper

Mrs. Barbara J. Fitch

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Grabowski

Mr. and Mrs. Terence L. Horan

Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon R. Flowers

Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord R. Gross

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Humphreys

Dr. and Mrs. Harold Fogelson

Mr. Raymond J. Haarman

Mr. Richard L. Hunt*

Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Frank

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Hallam

Dr. and Mrs. Joe F. Inman

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Friedlander

Mrs. Margaret H. Hamer

Ms. Barbara A. Jackson

Mr. Robert B. Friedman

Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Hamlin

Lillian M. Fritz

Mrs. Marilyn H. Harra

Dr. Richard L. Jackson and Dr. Judith A. Harmony

Dr. and Mrs. William M. Fye

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Hatala

Mrs. Betty K. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Hockney

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

TOM AND MARY ELLEN CODY

“Anything you can do to get involved with Cincinnati Children’s is a privilege,” says Tom Cody, chairman of the Cincinnati Children’s Board of Trustees. In addition to his institutional leadership, Tom and his wife Mary Ellen are passionate philanthropists who are leading by example through their generous support of the Heart Institute. The institutes at Cincinnati Children’s are grounded on three mainstays–clinical care, research

and education. The Codys’ gift will impact all three. In addition to supporting continuing education for the institute’s pediatric cardiac specialists, it will also expand the Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Program. VADs are mechanical pumps used to keep patients alive while they wait for heart transplants, and they are also being studied as a treatment to repair cardiac muscle damage, reducing the number of patients needing heart transplants.

Ms. Lyn M. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien

Mrs. Mildred A. Jones

Dr. Harold K. Marder and Dr. Jewel D. Slesnick

Ms. Margaret H. Jung

Ms. Marie A. Marley

Dr. Sonya G. Oppenheimer

Dr. Mark A. Kahn

Dr. and Mrs. James M. Marrs

Mr. Maurice E. Oshry

Mrs. Olga D. Kanuschak

Dr. and Mrs. Lester W. Martin

Mr. Bruce A. Pavlech

Mrs. Molly E. Kaplan*

Mr. Manuel D. Mayerson*

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Pease

Mrs. Marie C. Katzenstein

Mrs. Rhoda Mayerson

Mr. and Mrs. Kroger Pettengill

Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Kauder

Mr. and Mrs. Dale L. McGirr

Dr. Steven M. Pilipovich

Mr. Aloysius F. Keller

Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. McGraw

Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Place

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Kimball

Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. McLaurin

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Planes Jr.

Mr. Allen J. King

Dr. J. Scott McMurray

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Raines

Ms. Patricia Kisker*

Jeanette L. Meier

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Rauh

Mrs. Margaret W. Kite

Dr. and Mrs. C. Nelson Melampy

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rauh

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Koetters

Dr. Mary P. Melvin*

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Rauh

Mrs. Gladys M. Kurtz

Reverend and Mrs. Roger L. Meredith

Dr. and Mrs. J. Mark Reed

Dr. Beatrice C. Lampkin

Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Meyer

Dr. and Mrs. David M. Rider

Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lerer

Mrs. Frances M. Miller

Reverend Mr. Luis O. Riva Saleta

Dr. and Mrs. James L. Lessard

Mr. John N. Miller

Mrs. Marjorie B. Robbins

Dr. Joseph E. Levinson and Dr. Sophia M. Levinson

Ms. Judith E. Miller

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Robbins

Dr. Anthony J. Mortelliti and Dr. Gisella Mortelliti

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Robinson

Mr. Thomas A. Long* and Dr. Ann R. Gelke

Mrs. Marjorie Motch

Ms. Andrea T. Rosenthal

Carl J. Mueller*

Mrs. Ruth F. Rosevear

Dr. John R. Liu and Ms. Kari A. Jodal

Ruth M. Mueller

Dr. Robert R. Ross

Dr. Jennifer M. Loggie

Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Myer III

Mr. and Mrs. Snowden M. Rowe

Mr. George B. Lott and Ms. Barbara N. Wurth

Mrs. Gayle R. Nesselhuf

Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Russell

Mr. and Mrs. Joel L. Newberg

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Lyons

Estate of Lucile H. Ryan

Mr. and Mrs. Hale Newman

Mr. and Mrs. Millard H. Mack

Mr. Paul L. Niklas

Dr. Frederick C. and Mrs. Susan H. Ryckman

Dr. and Mrs. Philip K. Lichtenstein

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Okenfuss

Mrs. Phyllis M. Romanow

Ms. Arlene J. Sansone

Ms. Michelle B. Starkey

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Sathe

Dr. James F. Steiner

Drs. Brad W. Warner and Barbara B. Warner

Ms. Donna L. Schiff

Mrs. Mary S. Stern

Dr. Richard B. Warriner III

Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Schiff Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Stevenson

Mr. and Mrs. Todd Washburn

Mrs. Nancy L. Schlemmer

Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Stix

Mr. Dustin J. Waters

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Schmidt

Ms. Kathleen J. Stotler

Mr. and Mrs. Barry S. Weinstein

Mr. Robert C. Kanter and Dr. Rosemary E. Schmidt

Dr. C. Frederic Strife and Dr. Janet L. Strife

Mr. Harvey M. Weitkamp Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Welch

Ms. C. Jean Schroer

Dr. and Mrs. David M. Sullivan

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wert

Dr.* and Mrs. William K. Schubert

Mr. G. Richard Thomas

Dr. Clark D. West

Mr. and Mrs. Phil F. Schultz

Mr. James L. Thompson

Mrs. Patricia P. Whitaker

Dr. William J. Scott Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Tobias

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Whitsett

Kenneth and Lois Sears

Dr. Joseph C. Todd

Dr. and Mrs. J. Paul Willging

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Sharrock

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas U. Todd

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Womack

Dr. and Mrs. Curtis A. Sheldon

Mr. Leonard C. Tolliver Jr.

Mrs. Jean E. Wommack

Mrs. Kathleen A. Sherlock

Dr. and Mrs. Randolph T. Travis

Mrs. Joan R. Wood

Mr. Andrew M. Shott and Dr. Sally R. Shott

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Vankalker

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Woodiwiss

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Wacksman

Dr. and Mrs. Frank C. Woodside III

Ms. Miriam R. Siegel

Ms. Saundra E. Walker

Ms. Lynne T. Wu

Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Smith Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Zanotti

Estates and Trusts Throughout our history, Cincinnati Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has benefited from thoughtful friends who have provided for the future needs of the medical center. With grateful appreciation, we honor the memory of these donors who provided a gift during the past year through their estate plan.

Rose M. Albrecht Trust

Estate of Jackie Kasten

Estate of Marie A. Reichel

Doris M. Akeson

Ida C. Kayser Trust

Carolyn Rueppel

William Belmont Backs and Louise Nuxoll-Backs Trust

Dorothy M. M. Kersten Trust

Estate of Lucile H. Ryan

Estate of Richard C. and Jean Kinstler

Estate of Leroy E. Schilling

Mary S. Belville Trust

Otto Luedeking Trust

Charles W. Scott Trust

Katherine E. Cooke Trust

Estate of Donald J. Moeggenberg

Michael M. Shoemaker Trust

The Edward and Edna Frances T. Everlien Charitable Trust

Marion H. Morrison Trust

J. Frederick and Helen B. Vogel Trust

Dorothy T. Mueller Trust

Estate of Mildred J. Walters

Estate of Joseph W. Heideman, Jr.

Mandyam Dhati Narayan Trust

Louise A. Williams Trust

Juliet C. Muller Helmsworth Trust

Betty H. Palmer Charitable Lead Trust

Bernal R. Woodward Trust

Estate of Richard L. Hunt

Corporations, Foundations and Other Nonprofits Businesses, foundations and nonprofit organizations–both large and small–partner with Cincinnati Children’s in our important work. Their generous support of our mission plays a vital role in advancing care for patients and families, while strengthening and enriching our community.

$1,000,000 +

$100,000 – $249,999

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The Convalescent Hospital for Children

American Liver Foundation

Histiocytosis Association of America

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (National Headquarters)

American Thoracic Society

Hope on Wheels Hyundai Dealers

Angels for Eosinophilic Research Alliance

Josh Cares

Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s

The Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research

Fondation Leducq

Children’s Digestive Health Nutrition Foundation

March of Dimes Foundation

The Children’s Heart Association

The Perinatal Institute

Children’s Heart Foundation

Lupus Foundation of America Inc.

Toyota Motor North America Inc.

Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

$500,000 – $999,999

Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders Foundation

The H.B., E.W., and F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation, Fifth Third Bank and Narley L. Haley, Co-Trustees

American Heart Association Inc. The Sontag Foundation St. Baldrick’s Foundation

The Cure Starts Now Foundation Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Cincinnati Children’s

Kohl’s Department Stores Leukemia Research Foundation

Macy’s Department Stores Matching Gifts Masimo Foundation

Helen G., Henry F. & Louise Tuechter Dornette Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee

The Ohio National Foundation

Fifth Third Bank

John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust

Food Allergy Initiative

Speedway LLC

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America

Fosdick & Hilmer Inc.

The V Foundation for Cancer Research

Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation

Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research

Walmart Foundation

$250,000 – $499,999

Autism Speaks Burroughs Wellcome Fund CancerFree KIDS Pediatric Cancer Research

The Procter & Gamble Fund Marge & Charles J. Schott Foundation

$50,000 – $99,999

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

American Lung Association (Headquarters)

Markey Cancer Foundation

Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Max’s Blue Butterfly

Children’s Cancer Research Fund

Anonymous

National Tuberous Sclerosis Association

Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions

Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation

Ohio Cancer Research Associates

Dikla Insurance Company Ltd.

The PNC Foundation

Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc.

The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation

Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Foundation

Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc.

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Inc.

Tourette Syndrome Association

GBBN Architects

UCB Inc.

General Electric Evendale Employees’ Community Service Fund

Charles H. Dater Foundation Fifth Third Asset Management Inc. The Hartmann-Ryan Team at Cassidy Turley

Victory Wholesale

General Electric Foundation Matching Gifts

$25,000 – $49,999

Insuring The Children

American College of Rheumatology Research & Education

International OCD Foundation

Auction to Benefit Project SEARCH

HORAN Howard Hughes Medical Institute Johnson Investment Counsel Inc.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

WA L M A RT / S A M ’ S C L U B

When corporations and communities come together, miracles can happen. Cincinnati-area Walmart and Sam’s Club customers and employees rallied during the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ Miracle Balloon Campaign benefiting Cincinnati Children’s. This year’s campaign was one of the most successful ever, more than doubling last year’s contribution.

Club family,” says regional manager David Gose. “Our customers and associates are parents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters and of course, grandparents. When we see children who need medical care, we want to make a difference. The Miracle Balloon Campaign provided an opportunity for our customers and associates to give whatever they could afford to children who need the level of care that Cincinnati Children’s provides, and they gave without hesitation.”

“The children treated at Cincinnati Children’s hold a special place in the hearts of the Walmart and Sam’s

Macy’s Inc.

Dairy Queen Corporation

TriVersity Construction

Medtronic Foundation

Dental Care Foundation, Cincinnati Children’s

Truist

Messer Construction Company Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc.

Endocrine Fellows Foundation

Wound Healing Society Foundation

The PNC Financial Services Group

Epic Systems Corporation

The Nelson Stark Company Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research

THP Limited Inc.

GE Aviation

Thrasher Research Fund

The Gerber Foundation

Western & Southern Financial Group Masters

The Gorilla Glue Company

$10,000 – $24,999

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology American Academy of Pediatrics American Endowment Foundation American Financial Group Inc. American Society for Surgery of the Hand Anonymous Carpet Cushions & Supplies Inc. Cincinnati Bell Inc. Cincinnati Music and Wellness Coalition CinRon Marketing Group LLC Cisco Systems Inc. Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy Costco Wholesale-Springdale

Healthnetwork Foundation Huron Consulting Group Inc. Interim HealthCare of Cincinnati Inc. International House of Pancakes The Frank J. Kloenne and Jacqueline D. Kloenne Foundation

Turner Construction Company

$5,000 – $9,999

AFLAC AHRA Education Foundation The Archiable Electric Company Bahl & Gaynor Investment Counsel Inc. Butler County Medical Center LLC The Cambridge Charitable Foundation Chase Bank Children’s Tumor Foundation Circle K Midwest Clover Hill Farm Inc.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

The Columbus Foundation

R.G. McGraw Insurance Agency Inc.

Corporex Companies Inc.

National Hemophilia Foundation

Cotswold Foundation

Al. Neyer Inc.

CSL Behring LLC

NISH National Office Operating Account

Deloitte

Ohio Casualty Foundation

Duke Energy Foundation

Ohio Credit Union League

dunnhumbyUSA

Omnicare Inc.

Foxx Construction LLC

The Peck Hannaford & Briggs Co.

Frost Brown Todd LLC

Plastic Surgery Foundation

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc.

RCF Group Tackling TS Charity

DiaPharma Group Inc.

Give with Liberty Matching Gifts Program

GKN Aerospace Cincinnati

Time Warner Cable

Dell Inc.

Great Clips Inc. The Highfield Foundation

The Union Central Life Insurance Company

EMC Corporation

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

United Way of Greater Cincinnati

Five Guys Burger and Fries

Katz, Teller, Brant & Hild

Valvoline Instant Oil Change

General Electric United Way Campaign

Kicks for Kids

WLWT

Genzyme Corporation

Lundbeck Inc.

Wright Brothers Inc.

GR/AD Architects

M&T Investment Group Marriott Foundation For People With Disabilities Marriott International Joanna McAfee Childhood Cancer Foundation Miles That Matter Foundation Olivia J. Murray Foundation MV Commercial Construction LLC Nativity The Pop Opera PEDCO E & A Services Inc. Pension Corporation of America PNC Bank Pomeroy RE/MAX Regional ServicesAlpharetta, GA Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

Delta Community Credit Union

Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP

$2,500 – $4,999

3D Exhibits Ace Hardware Foundation American College of Radiology Avaya Inc. Baker Concrete Construction Bank of America Bank of America Matching Gifts Bayer Becker / Terracon Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Brenco Inc. Building Blocks Foundation Clever Crazes for Kids CBCE cHc Manufacturing Inc. Chico’s FAS Inc. Cintas Corporation

Society for Pediatric Dermatology

CO-OP Financial Services

Sodexo

CTS Telecommunications

Strauss & Troy

Curtis Inc.

Thompson Hine LLP

DeBra-Kuempel

The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Hispanics Avanzando Hispanics Human Genetic Therapies Inc. Huntington Bank J. II Fire Systems Inc. Kenneth Wong Corporation KeyBank KLH Engineers Inc. Kolar Design Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon Lone Star Steakhouse-Middletown Loth, Inc./IWS The Lubrizol Foundation Luckenbach Lines Inc. Macy’s Foundation Meijer Netscout Novartis International AG OMNOVA Solutions Foundation ORACLE

Palo Alto Networks Inc. The Procter & Gamble Company Shareholder Services

Cafco

Han’s White Tiger Tae Kwon Do

Anthony D. Castelli, Attorney at Law

Harmony Staffing Services LLC

Department of Accounting, Cincinnati Children’s

Healthcare Regional Marketing

Department of Home Care Pharmacy, Cincinnati Children’s

Human Arc Corporation Jack Dym Investment LTD.

The Success Group LTD.

Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s

United Group Services Inc.

Champion Window Mfg. & Supply

Ransohoff Inc. Ruttle Design Group Inc. SGC Foundation Smile Train

Maxwell C. Weaver Foundation

Cincinnati Wholesale Ice Cream Inc.

The Wilbert Foundation

Cochlear Americas

Zanett Commercial Solutions Inc.

Controlled Credit Corp.

Zeus Sports Inc.

CREW Greater Cincinnati Custom Glass & Glazing Inc.

$1,000 – $2,499

The 100 Times Foundation Corporation

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Pharmacy LLC

W. Ron Adams P.S.C.

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

Akers Packaging Services Inc.

Economy Linen & Towel Service

American Lung Association of the Midland States

Every Child Succeeds

American Scaffolding Inc. Arthritis Foundation BHDP Architecture Bowling Green Pediatric Dental Group

Findlow Filtration Inc. Fink Foundation FirstGroup America Gas America Charitable Foundation

BP Fabric of America Fund

The Patrick and Amanda Gavin Charitable Foundation

Brooks Brothers Group Inc.

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Bruegger’s Enterprises Inc.

Green Crest Golf Course

Buffalo Wild Wings

H & R Block Financial Advisors Inc.

Butler Technology and Career Development School

Carol and Ralph V. Haile Jr., U.S. Bank Foundation

Hub Pen Company Inc. IBM Employee Services Center Johnstone Supply/Controls Center Inc. Just Give Kao Brands Company Keating, Muething & Klekamp PLL Kessler Foundation Key Foundation Matching Gifts Kroger Company LPK Martin & West PLLC McCarthy Strategic Solutions Med Assets Med-El Corporation Merrill Lynch Matching Gift Program Mid-American Junior Golf Tour Middletown Community Foundation Mike-Sells Potato Chips New York Life Insurance Co-Cincinnati Neyer Properties Inc. Northrop Grumman Corporation Nutricia North America Océ North America, Inc. Matching Gifts Program

Office Depot Regional Office

Total Quality Logistics

Carrigan and Grimm Inc.

Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation

Traction LLC Traincroft Inc.

Department of Home Health Care, Cincinnati Children’s

Ohio Physical Therapy Association

US Bank

Chemed Foundation

Omega Processing Solutions LLC

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Cheviot Savings Bank

On Line Design Inc.

Ashley Ward Inc.

Chick-fil-A

Oticon Inc.

Widmer’s Cleaners

CINFAB, LLC

Phonak Corporation Pitcher, Enders & Drohan CPA’s Inc. Planes Moving & Storage Inc. Pratt Corrugated Holdings Inc. Prestige Technical Services Inc. Pride Technologies Progressive Podiatry LLC Radisson Hotel Cincinnati Riverfront Remke bigg’s August A. Rendigs, Jr. Foundation Rite Aid Corporation Sinai Hospital Scripps Financial Service Center See Kids Dream Semler Industries Inc. Sharefax Credit Union Inc. Sheldon-Reder Suburban Real Estate Corporation Superior Honda Teri Studios TGW International Inc. Thunder11

ComDoc

$500 – $999

AAkron Rule Corp. Advanced Bionics Advanced Health Media LLC Alternative Design American Cold Storage Systems Inc. American Cornhole LLC Anonymous (2) Aptalis Pharma US Inc. Arts Rental Equipment Inc. Baule USA LLC Baxter Healthcare Corporation Besse Medical Associates R. P. Biederman Co. Inc. Boutique 280

CTL Engineering Inc. Custom Fabricators Inc. Customer Relationship Metrics Cutting Edge Services Corporation Doner Financial Inc. Duke Energy Matching Gifts Program Duke Energy-Zimmer Generation Station Duke Realty Corporation Ernst & Young Foundation Express Employment Professionals Inc. Figure Weight Loss Food Lion Gannett Foundation Matching Gifts Genentech Inc.

Bow Automation Bretagne, LLC Kentucky Account Brower Insurance Agency Incorporated Tim Browne Memorial Inc. The Bungie Foundation CAI Insurance Agency Inc.

Gilead Sciences Inc. Greystone Investments Management Hahana Beach Handy Window Shade Inc. Healthlinx Executive Search Inc. Hill-Rom Holdings Inc.

Illinois Tool Works Foundation Matching Gifts

Niscayah Inc.

Standex Electronics Inc.

Northwestern Mutual-West Chester

Steiner Electric Company

Information & General Services MBA Chapter

NxTech, Incorporated

Stiles Associates

OK Interiors Corporation

Tactical Advantage Group LLC

International Traders Inc.

Dennis Ott Builders Inc.

JPMorgan Chase Matching Gifts Program

P L Marketing Inc.

U.S. Bancorp Matching Gift Foundation

JTM Provisions Co. Inc Ben Kelhoffer Foundation Inc.

The Pampered Chef Paragon Financial Group

United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cincinnati Inc. United Way of Greater Stark County

Kenwood Dealer Group Inc.

Parkside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

LaRosa’s Pizzerias

Passport Health Communications Inc.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

LexisNexis

Performance Honda

Vitronic Promotional Group

LifeCenter Organ Donor Network

Perry Interiors Inc.

W E L Ventures Inc.

Lindhorst & Dreidame Company

Pfizer Inc.

Waltz Business Solutions Warren County Records Center & Archives

Logistics and Procurement Services LLC

Pinnacle Environmental Consultants Inc.

Market Precision Inc

Reed Medical INC.

Maxor National Pharmacy Service Corp.

REinvest Consultants

McLane Food Service Inc. #153

RespirTech

Medco Employee Giving Campaign

SALIX

Miltenyi Biotec Inc.

SEI-Cincinnati LLC

MMG Corporate Communication Inc.

Spina Bifida Association of Cincinnati

M-Pact Corporation

SpringHill Suites by Marriott-Waterstone

The Carter Nedley Foundation

Western & Southern Life Insurance Company WKRC-TV Women’s Plastic Surgery Centre WRP Associates LLC XL Insurance Group YPO Forum X

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

“When we see children who need medical care, we think of their families and we want to work with Cincinnati Children’s to make a difference.”

D AV I D G O S E , WA L M A RT / S A M ’ S C L U B

Chairs and Fellowships We are grateful to the individuals, families, corporations and foundations that had the vision to establish permanent endowment accounts to benefit the children and families we serve. Their investment in the future of the medical center provides ongoing support for salaries, equipment and laboratory costs that are necessary to create new knowledge to advance and improve child health.

The Alvin H. Crawford Chair of Pediatric Spine Surgery

The Marjory J. Johnson Chair of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

The Robert L. Creedon Chair of Pediatric Dentistry

The Marjory J. Johnson Chair of Brain Tumor Translational Research

The Division of Critical Care Medicine Chair

The Marjory J. Johnson Chair of Vascular Tumor Translational Research

The EMSC Chair of Pediatric ER Medicine

The Neil D. Johnson Chair of Radiology Informatics

The Gunnar Esiason/Cincinnati Bell Chair of Life Sciences Research

The Rob and Jessican Kahn Chair of General and Community Pediatrics

The James M. Ewell Chair of Pediatric Research

The Samuel and Molly Kaplan Chair of Pediatric Cardiology

The David G. and Priscilla R. Gamble Chair of Neonatology

The Dorothy M.M. Kersten Chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology

The Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology Chair

The Kindervelt Chair of Pediatric Pulmonary Biology

The Lee Ault Carter Chair of Pediatric Ethics

The Emma Margaret and Irving Goldman Chair of Pediatric Ophthalmology

The Deb Kleisinger Chair of Novel Cancer Treatment

The Robin T. Cotton Research Chair of Pediatric Otolaryngology

The David N. Glass Chair of Pediatric Rheumatology

The Alvin H. Crawford Chair of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

The Carolyn Hamlin Chair of Otology Research

CHAIRS

The Division of Allergy and Immunology Chair The Richard and Geralyn Azizkhan Chair of Pediatric Surgery The William F. and Rebecca A. Balistreri Chair of Pediatric Hepatology The William S. Ball Chair of Radiology Research The Corning Benton Chair of Radiology Education The Thomas Boat Chair of Pulmonary Medicine The Kevin E. Bove Chair of Pediatric Pathology The Hubert and Dorothy Campbell Chair of Pediatric Pulmonology

The Othilda Krug Chair of Child Psychiatry The Beatrice C. Lampkin Chair of Cancer Biology

The Beatrice C. Lampkin Chair of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

The George Rieveschl, Jr., Chair in Research

The Division of Pediatric Surgery Research Chair

The Joseph E. Levinson Chair of Pediatric Rheumatology

The Jeff Robbins Chair

The Katherine Stewart Waters Chair of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology

The Luther Foundation Research Chair of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine The Lester W. Martin Chair of Pediatric Surgery The Robert and Sarah McLaurin Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery Research The C. Nelson Melampy Chair of Pediatric Anesthesiology The A. Graeme Mitchell Chair of Human Genetics The M. Susan Moyer Chair of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease The Robert Myers and Mary Colgate Shoemaker Chair of Pediatric Endocrinology The Sonya Oppenheimer Chair of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics The Division of Pathology Chair The Aaron W. Perlman Chair of Pediatric Rehabilitative Medicine The B.K. Rachford Chair of Pediatrics The Louise W. and Joseph L. Rauh Chair of Adolescent Medicine The Pauline and Lawson Reed Chair of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

The Thelma and Jack Rubinstein Chair of Pediatric Developmental Disorders and Mental Retardation The Richard Ruddy and Barbara Wriston-Ruddy Chair of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research The Frederick C. Ryckman Chair of Pediatric Surgery The Albert B. Sabin Chair of Pediatric Infectious Diseases The Schlemmer Family Chair of Pediatric Research The Jacob G. Schmidlapp Chair of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology The William K. Schubert Chair of Pediatric Research The Curtis Sheldon and Jeffrey Wacksman Chair of Pediatric Urology The Frederic and Carolyn Silverman Chair of Pediatric Radiology The Charles H. Sloan Sr., Olive Louise Sloan, and Charles H. Sloan Jr. Chair of General Pediatric Research The StarShine Chair The Janet L. Strife Chair of Radiology Quality and Safety The Ralph J. Stolle Chair of Pediatric Immunology

The Transplant Hepatology Chair The Carl Weihl Chair of General and Community Pediatrics The Clark D. West Chair of Pediatric Nephrology The Louise M. Williams Chair of Pediatric Nephrology F E L LOW S H I P S

The William George Bauer Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology The Mary Louise Burton Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology The Ruth Knittel Dietz Perinatal Research Institute Fellowship The Katharine S. and Gerald J. Ficks Fellowship in Neonatology The Andrew Jergens Foundation Fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology The Junior Co-Operative Society Fellowship in Pediatric Diabetes The Junior Co-Operative Society Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases The Ida C. Kayser Fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology

The Edward L. Pratt Fellowship in Pediatric Medicine and Nutrition

The Reginald C. Tsang Fellowship in Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology

The Edward F. Scully Fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology

The Josef F. Warkany Fellowship in Human Genetics

The Frank C. Woodside and Dinsmore & Shohl Fellowship in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Tribute Gifts When donors make a gift in honor or memory of a loved one, our patients benefit from their generosity. We thank the families and friends of the following individuals, who have had $500 or more donated in their name.

Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Azizkhan

Dr. Mitchell B. Cohen and Dr. Morissa Cohen

Dr. Nancy Hagerman

Mr. Lynwood L. Battle Jr.

Ms. Maya Collins

Ms. Sylvia Heiby

Jamie Benassi

Mr. Louis Costello

Bailey A. Hemingway

Mr. Jake Bertellotti

Dr. and Mrs. Kerry R. Crone

Ms. Casey Hilmer

Mr. Pierce J. Blalock

Carter John Davis

Mr. Jacob T. Hoffman

Cameron I. Bordainick

Colin Davis

Ms. Kai N. Hollingsworth

Mr. Matthew K. Bormet

Mr. Shane P. DiGiovanna

Mrs. Kristin Horsburgh

Mr. and Mrs. Elroy E. Bourgraf Sr.

Tanner Dole

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bredenfoerder

Nicholas Dworjanyn

Mr. Frank Wray and Ms. Kathleen M. Kool-Wray

Nathaniel Brown

Master Manish Eapen

Ms. Katherine Koslovsky

Curtis G. Buerkett

Mr. Ryan Elliot

Dr. Helen Kranbuhl

Master Michael Buerkett

Ms. Elsa Fagin

Mr. and Mrs. Venu G. Krishnamoorthy

Brady Campbell

Ms. Marie Fern

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel I. Choo

Mr. Michael A. Fisher

Mr. Jonathan J. Calderas and Dr. Corinne Lehmann

Jonah Chuang

Dr. David N. Franz

Ms. Kathryn Leikhim

Ms. Ava M. Gallino

Dr. and Mrs. Marc A. Levitt

Ms. Ashley Gavin

Ms. Lauren Lloyd

IN HONOR OF

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.

Ms. Julien R. Guttman

Mr. Joshua C. Mack

Timothy Browne

Andrew J. Hagen

Kurtis Martin

Raymond Buse III

Christopher Harmon

Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. McLaurin

Paul Carroll

Kaylynn M. Hartman

Mr. Nick Moloney

Dalton Chandler

Joyce Heiman

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Northern

Arun Chatterjee

Zachary Heringer

Ms. Priscilla Peyton

Manuel Chavez Sr.

Mary Hess

Ms. Cameron Rawlings

Steven A. Cirino II

Mr. Anthony G. Hoel

Dr. Pramod P. Reddy and Dr. Usha P. Reddy

Jennifer K. Clanton

Kyle T. House

Phyllis Clyde

Anabelle Huff

Mr. Seth Rogers

Bruce W. Cochran

Alice Humbert

Ms. Lynn W. Roy

Sophia Cordier

Elizabeth M. Igel

Brayden Schindler

Joyce W. Coykendall

Gregg Jacob

Mrs. Catherine A. Schneider

Hunter A. Creech

Judith Johnson

Ms. Sara Shinn

Mary Christine Daush

Richard E. Kaeser

Mr. Reese Stuart

Mrs. Shirley I. Davies

Jenna Kamphaus

Grace Tapp

Rowan Dinn

Joseph Kanuschak

Dr. Ann Weichert

Dr. Harold Downing

John B. Kara

Dr. Brenda Wong

Amanda M. Drake

Ben Kelhoffer

Patricia Droppelman-Helton

Hayes R. Kelley

Emily Dubois

Richard C. Kinstler

Deborah L. Folker

Matthew Korfhagen

IN MEMORY OF

Erik Anderson Rebecca Archambeault Regan Leigh Arnold Henrietta F. Belmont Michael Blessinger Lora Bodley Norbert Borgman Natalie Bost Emily M. Brehm Gerardo (Jerry) Brindisi

Ayelet Y. Galena

Wright Lanier

Julia Gallino

Jenna C. Laumer

Clifton Kippy Gideon

Andrew Lee

Judith E. Gilliam

Michael Little

Caroline Goebel

Thomas A. Long

Kim Goebel

Eleanor S. Lortz

Joseph M. Gruber

Patricia E. Macke

Florence Guttman

Manuel D. Mayerson

Shelia McCuddy

Dr. Jack H. Rubinstein

Joe Stima

Sophie Meinhardt

Michael Salt

Abby Lyn Streszoff

Patrick & Drew Meisenheimer

Mitchell W. Sayre

Robert Taylor Jr.

Tony R. Merk

Robert F. Schapker

Marjorie Timko

William J. Meyer

Francis J. Scharon

Michael C. Torbeck

Kyle Miller

Holly Schmitz

Samuel George Towne

Mary Susan Moyer

Jonathan P. Schmitz

Faith Venerable

Ms. Janie Newton

Dr. William K. Schubert

Mason Ward

Kurt A. Ostling

Paul D. Seiter

Michael T. Washburn

Norman Oxley

Luke Seitz

Lillian Wesner

Dr. Aaron W. Perlman

George Shelby

Molly West

Crystal G. Phillips

Kathleen A. Sinkula

Ronald West

Ian Pierce

Sophia Jane Smallwood

William Whitsett

Bhama Rajaram

Kortney Snyder

Ryan Wilson

Puli Pradip Reddy

Russell Dale Stephenson

Sarah E. Zoz

Auxiliaries

J U N I O R C O - O P E R A T I V E S O C I E T Y G I F T:

Established in 1910, the Junior Co-Operative Society operates and staffs the Gift Shops at Cincinnati Children’s Burnet and Liberty campuses. The Gift Shops are filled with a wonderful selection of toys, games, cards and books to lift the spirits of hospitalized children. All proceeds from the Gift Shops are donated to the medical center. Their dedicated volunteers live by their motto, “the more you shop, the more we give.”

K I N D E R V E LT C I T Y P R E S I D E N T: G I F T:

Marjorie Gilsdorf $482,832

P R E S I D E N T:

United by a common interest in supporting the medical center, Cincinnati Children’s auxiliaries have been essential to our success. If you would like more information about our auxiliaries, or if you wish to join in their important work, please call 513-636-6080.

Buffie Rixey

$575,550

A S S O C I A T I O N O F V O L U N T E E R S

Our largest fundraising auxiliary, Kindervelt is widely recognized as one of Greater Cincinnati’s outstanding volunteer organizations. With nearly 1,000 members in groups around the region, linked by a citywide board of trustees, Kindervelt truly lives its mission to “have fun while raising funds” for the patients and families of Cincinnati Children’s. In its more than 40-year history, the women of Kindervelt have contributed over $15 million to the medical center.

Jeane Elliott $60,300

P R E S I D E N T: G I F T:

The Association of Volunteers has supported the Convalescent Hospital for Children, an affiliate of Cincinnati Children’s, for more than 40 years. To raise funds for the Convalescent Hospital, the association sponsors the Cincinnati Art & Antiques Festival. This four-day antique show, held each October, is one of the largest and finest in the country.

T H E C O O P E R A T I V E S O C I E T Y

Nancy Sorg $761,600

P R E S I D E N T:

F U N N Y C O M P A N I E C L O W N S

G I F T:

P R E S I D E N T: G I F T:

Our first auxiliary, the Cooperative Society has served Cincinnati Children’s for more than 125 years. In addition to financial contributions, members of the Cooperative Society also give generously of their time. Members volunteer for the Division of Child Life and Recreational Therapy, the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children and the sewing room.

Donald Bachmann $13,160

Since 1983, the Funny Companie Clowns have been delighting children and adults throughout the community, while raising money for Cincinnati Children’s. The 25member volunteer auxiliary performs at holiday parties, company picnics, birthday parties and festivals, and has raised nearly $200,000 for the medical center.

Special Events and Community Organizations Special events bring people together to benefit our young patients, while building awareness of the medical center and children’s health issues. Cincinnati Children’s thanks each and every volunteer and supporter who gave time, talent and resources for an event that benefited the medical center. Those events that raised $500 or more are listed here.

$500,000 +

Katie Linz Foundation

Cincinnati Walks for Kids

The Plaid Open

Celestial Ball

Sample, Savor and Support

Liam Nolen Bradley Memorial

Tennis Masters Series

Fairlawn Local School

Warrior Run: The Race For Life

Ellen B. Ganson Memorial Foundation

$250,000 – $499,999

An Evening to Honor Milt Kantor $100,000 – $249,999

Angels for Eosinophilic Research Golf Tournament Ruth Lyons Children’s Fund

$10,000 – $24,999

Champions Fore Cincinnati Children’s Golf Outing Funny Companie Clowns Hearts are Trump Euchre Tournament

$50,000 – $99,999

LEGO KidsFest

Annual Golf Outing Benefiting the Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs

Neurosurgery Chiari Fundraiser

Memorial Cancer Research Golf Outing Passport to Forever

Tri State Society of Healthcare Engineers, Inc.

StarShine Hospice Golf Classic

Win a Wine Cellar

StarShine Hospice Cornhole Charity Classic

Becca’s 2nd Annual Legendary Run for the Cure

Kendall’s Second Annual EB Walk/Run Kilgore Elementary Dance-a-thon Kolping Seth Stevens Memorial Soccer Tournament Olivia J. Murray Second Annual Golf Outing Nativity The Pop Opera Operation Beard for Bucks! St. Ursula Academy Orange & White Football Game Simon’s Fund The Spirit Of Cincinnatus

$25,000 – $49,999

$5,000 – $9,999

Max Richard Thornsbury Foundation- CDH Research

Bluegrass for Babies

2012 Auto Expo

Team Jenna

Children’s Charitable Care Golf Outing

Abby’s Run for the Heart

Walk for EB

Cincinnati Golfers for Charity

Association of Philippine Physicians of Greater Cincinnati

American Board of Internal Medicine

B2B Halloween BashFamilies Against Brain Injury

Kiwanis Club of Kenwood-SilvertonMadeira Golf Outing

Brenco Golf Outing

Chipping In for Children Happy Hour

Leis for Sheriff Committee

Chippin’ in for Children

CJCC Volleyball Tournament

A Night In For Neuroblastoma

SGC Foundation Golf Outing

Cincinnati Friends of Charity

Olde Sawmill Elementary

Torch Relay

Cincinnati Marathon, Inc.

Our Lady of Lourdes School

Toys for Nicholas

Cincy Kids 4 Kids

Primrose School of West Chester

Turpin Parents Soccer Club

John R. Estep Charity Golf Outing

R.C. Hinsdale School

Xavier University Charity Golf Outing

Families Against Brain Injury

Xavier University Dance Marathon

Abby Glaser’s Family Talent Show Fundraiser

Rocks Football Team 7th and 8th Grade Car Wash

$2,500 – $4,999

Green Crest Christmas Walk

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati

All Saints School

Han’s White Tiger Tae Kwon Do Break-a-Thon

Ross-Butler Tech DECA Powder Puff Football Game

Angels of Mercy the SaNyiah Rose Lynn Memorial

Immaculate Heart of Mary

Saint Ignatius of Loyola 7:30pm Music Group

$1,000 – $2,499

Acoustic Night at Scotty’s

The Basement Band

Kenwood-Silverton-Madeira Kiwanis Golf Outing

Paul Seiter Annual Memorial Fundraiser

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

A N E V E N I N G H O N O R I N G M I LT K A N TO R

Milt Kantor is a businessman, a husband, a father, a grandfather and a friend to many. As an avid philanthropist for most of his life, Milt has called upon many of his friends in the world of sports to share their time and resources for causes that are close to his heart.

life and his generosity during an event that benefited the Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute at Cincinnati Children’s. Guests included Bobby Knight, Cris Collinsworth, “Big O” Oscar Robertson, Dolph Schayes, Bob Huggins and others who were thrilled to honor Milt while supporting the health and healing that Cincinnati Children’s provides for kids around the world.

For his 85th birthday, Milt’s family gathered some of those sports legends, and 500 other friends, to celebrate his

Shred Day-Souders Financial Group

Greek Philoptochos Society

Riverside Athletic Boosters

Spooky Film Festival

Hoops for the Cure

Rockdale Temple Religious School

StarShine Plant and Flower Sale

Saint Cecilia School Fundraiser

Sycamore Community School District

International Society for Research in Human Milk & Lactation

Sycamore High School Student Council Event-Mr. Sycamore

Lakota West High School- School Government Association

Saint Margaret York Parish

Ben Kelhoffer Golf Outing

South Central Ohio Minority Supplier Development Council

$500 – $999

Bethel International United Methodist Church Florence Lodge 33 Fraternal Order of Eagles Germania Society Gorilla Glue 1/2 Day Vacation Raffle

Madeira City School District Shirley Mann Elementary School Sucker Sale “Ella’s Elves” Music Therapy Donation from Thomas Wright Lemier Nu Chapter Omega

Saint Ignatius of Loyola St. Romain Dance Academy

Amanda Thomson Piano Recital Warren County Records Center & Archives Bake Sale Westboro Friends Church Woodland Elementary Walk-a-Thon

Parkway Products Annual Golf Outing

Gifts-in-Kind We thank the following individuals, corporations and organizations that helped ease the stress of our patients and families with their donations of toys, services and other non-cash gifts, valued at $500 or more.

Adopt-a-BookHannah and Alex Laman

Ms. Hanna Barlow

Boy Scouts Pack 742

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold R. Barnett

Brent James and the Contraband

Amazon.com

Bennett’s Beavers

Ms. Tammy Brinegar

American Book Company

Mr. and Mrs. Chad Blanchard

Mr. and Mrs. Vasiliki Brunson

Mrs. Frank Anastasia

Blue Ash Airport Days

Mr. Daniel P. Bueche

APKE Premium Cleaning

Bob Roncker’s Running Spot

Bunnies By The Bay

Mr. and Mrs. Chris C. Ayers

Books for Cure-Natasha Saputra and Megha Battina

Mr. Kevin Burton

Ms. April Baker

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Carroll

Catholic Kolping Society of Cincinnati

Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc.

Indy Racing League

Department of Audiology, Cincinnati Children’s

Felix Leshey Foundation

Jimmy’s Limousine Service

First Christian Church

Kai’s Love Hats

Cengage Learning

First Watch Restaurants Inc.

Ms. Hadia Kahn

Cincinnati Carvers Guild

Mr. Daigle Fisher

KIDSovercancer Foundation

Cincinnati Precision Instruments Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy D. Focht

Kindergarden School

Cincy Kids 4 Kids

Mr. Grant Forster

La Salle High School

Cintas Corporation

Freestore Foodbank

Mrs. Theresa L. Labbe Wise

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Frisch’s Restaurants

Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Ladrigan

Clark Montessori School Foundation, Inc.

From the Heart Church Ministries of Cincinnati

Lakota Plains Junior School

Coca-Cola Refreshments

GE Aviation

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cody Sr.

Ms. Joanne Geiger

Dr. Ernest H. Lawhorn and Dr. Susan R. Lawhorn

Coldwell Banker West Shell

Mr. and Mrs. David Gilday

Ms. Latisha Lewis

Commonwealth Financial Network

Mr. and Mrs. Olivier R. Gillier

Dr. Anne Lucky

Companions in Courage Foundation

Girl Scout Daisy Troop #43840

Luxottica Retail

Compass Group

Girl Scout Troop #41725

Mann Elementary School

Coney Island

Girl Scout Troop #42599

The Marvin Lewis Community Fund

Ms. Deanna Cox

Mr. Gavin Goeser

Mason Intermediate School

Ms. Gail Cox

Greater Cincinnati Relocation Council (GCRC)

Ms. Virginia J. McDowell

Ms. Barbara Decker

GWRRA Chapter OhX2

Miami University

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Dickman

Mr. Justin Hall

The Dragonfly Foundation

Hamilton County Sheriff ’s Department

Miami University Residence Hall Association

Drawing Dreams Foundation

Jeffrey Thomas Hayden Foundation

Ms. Abby Murphy

dunnhumbyUSA

Mrs. Pat Hueslman

Music to Heal

Ms. April Dalton

The LaRosa Family

Messer Construction Company

Mrs. Betty Dzeich

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Huysse

Nativity The Pop Opera

Elisha Lodge #106

IKEA West Chester

Mr. Michael Nesi

Mr. and Mrs. David Ellis

Indian Hill

Newport Aquarium

Newport Independent SchoolNewport Intermediate School

Response Marketing Inc.

Terrace Park Elementary

Roads, Rivers and Trails

Mr. R. Jeffrey Thomas

The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Robbins

Mr. Richard Thomas

The Alicia Rose “Victorious” Foundation

Ms. Tari Torbeck

Otis Spunkmeyer Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Rosenlieb

Total Quality Logistics

Ms. Catherine A. O’Toole

Saint Susanna School

Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.

Nina and Edward Paul

Sans Souci Sorority

Toys for Nicholas

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro

Scarlet Oaks

Pepsi Beverages Company PetSmart

The Friends of The School for Creative & Performing Arts

Tri State Paranormal of Northern Kentucky

Phillip A. Sharp Middle School

Ms. Shannon Scott

University of Cincinnati

The PNC Financial Services Group

Seven Hills Church

University of Cincinnati-Public Safety

Procter & Gamble

Dr. and Mrs. Peter Y. Sheng

Ursuline Academy

Q Laboratories Inc.

Ms. Missy Tripp

Skyline Chili of Middletown

Ms. Amy Vaughan

Readers Hideaway

Sodexo

Walmart Foundation

Pete Delois Recreations Outlet

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Staffilino

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene K. Reis

Ms. Lynova Stamper

Warren County Records Center & Archives

Mr. and Mrs. Justin D. Reno

Ms. Kimetra Stone

Ms. Carol Wobser

Republic Capital Truck and Trailer Sale

Stonz

Ms. Tatiana M. Yewisiak * Deceased

FINANCIAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2012: JULY 1, 2011â&#x20AC;&#x201C; JUNE 30, 2012

(Dollars in Thousands) OPERATING REVENUES AND EXPENSES OPERATING REVENUES

OPERATING EXPENSES

FY 2012

FY 2011

$1,286,492 252,401 149,858 162,987 1,851,738

$1,144,142 229,749 153,914 165,603 1,693,408

Salaries and Benefits Services, Supplies and Other Depreciation Interest Total Operating Expenses

1,072,522 514,968 119,574 15,926 1,722,990

1,033,823 479,392 110,716 16,104 1,640,035

Available to Reinvest in the Mission

$128,748

$53,373

Net Hospital Patient Services Revenue Professional Services Revenue Research Grants Other Operating Revenue Total Operating Revenues

(Dollars in Thousands)

ASSETS

CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET

FY 2012

FY 2011

Cash and Equivalents Marketable Securities Patient Accounts Receivable, Net of Allowances for Uncollectible Amounts Other Current Assets Current Assets

$169,667 258,903 214,355 126,599 769,524

$97,451 227,642 204,081 122,522 651,696

840,978 3,678 81,324 937,327 $2,632,831

851,701 4,620 74,261 886,162 $2,468,440

$227,089 20,365 247,454

$188,643 19,432 208,075

467,223 441,819 1,156,496

481,471 245,039 934,585

397,514 156,702 922,119 1,476,335

526,991 135,943 870,921 1,533,855

$2,632,831

$2,468,440

Property and Equipment, Net of Accumulated Depreciation Funds Held in Trust Other Long-term Assets Interest in Net Assets of Supporting Organizations Total Assets

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

LIABILITIES

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses Current Portion of Long-term Debt Current Liabilities Long-term Debt Other Long-term Liabilities Total Liabilities

NET ASSETS

Unrestricted Net Assets Temporarily Restricted Net Assets Permanently Restricted Net Assets Total Net Assets Total Liabilities and Net Assets

PAT I E N T S

O U T PAT I E N T VISITS

SURGICAL PROCEDURES

PEOPLE

STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS

FY 2012

FY 2011

FY 2010

FY 2009

FY 2008

Admissions (includes short stay) Average Length of Stay (days) Emergency Department Visits Patient Encounters

30,579 4.7 124,274 1,144,858

30,951 4.4 121,875 1,087,260

32,981 4.1 125,130 1,078,798

31,217 4.4 114,985 1,003,079

27,392 4.5 93,456 925,944

65,347 832,317 65,247

65,446 797,280 29,868

65,915 793,814 28,374

60,243 735,926 29,635

61,788 693,636 31,941

Inpatient Outpatient Surgical Hours

6,365 27,094 44,240

6,141 26,168 42,874

5,667 25,492 40,825

5,667 24,669 39,462

6,323 22,845 43,325

Active Medical Staff Total Employees Full-time Equivalents

1,572 12,932 10,976

1,516 12,654 10,781

1,498 12,368 10,455

1,442 11,666 9,871

1,292 10,680 9,104

Primary Specialty Test Referral Center

OUR LEADERS

(Lists reflect leadership as of June 30, 2012)

OFFICERS OF THE BOARD

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Thomas G. Cody, Esq. Chairman

Sharry Addison

Pamela Terp

Robert D. H. Anning

Felicia Williams

Carol Armstrong

Craig Young

Michael Fisher President and Chief Executive Officer Vicki L. Davies Treasurer Elizabeth A. Stautberg, Esq. Secretary

Richard G. Azizkhan, MD Lynwood Battle Michael S. Cambron Willie F. Carden Jr. Lee A. Carter

TRUSTEES EX OFFICIO

Rt. Reverend Thomas Breidenthal The Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio Kay Fricke Family Advisory Council

Thomas G. Cody, Esq. Katharine DeWitt Jr.

AUXILIARIES

Nancy Krieger-Eddy, PhD

Nancy Sorg President, Cooperative Society

Michael Fisher Vallie Geier

Marjorie Gilsdorf President, Junior Co-Operative Society

Louis D. George Michael Hirschfeld, Esq. Joyce J. Keeshin M. Denise Kuprionis, Esq. Peggy Mathile

Buffie Rixey President, Kindervelt TRUSTEES EMERITI

Ralph Burchenal

Jane Portman

Barbara Fitch

John Steinman Arnold W. Strauss, MD

Kroger Pettengill

AFFILIATES

PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP TEAM

A D O L E S C E N T H E A LT H C E N T E R

Michael Fisher President and Chief Executive Officer

O F G R E AT E R C I N C I N N AT I

Janet Ach President Frank Biro, MD Director, Division of Adolescent Medicine C H I L D R E N ’ S D E N TA L C A R E F O U N D AT I O N

Michael Lee, DDS President Stephen Wilson, DMD, MA, PhD Director, Division of Pediatric Dentistry C O N VA L E S C E N T H O S P I TA L FOR CHILDREN

Pamela Terp Chair Phillip C. Long President J A C K RU B I N S T E I N F O U N D AT I O N F O R D E V E L O P M E N TA L D I S O R D E R S

JoAnn Hagopian President David Schonfeld, MD Director, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Richard G. Azizkhan, MD Surgeon-in-Chief Elisabeth Baldock, PhD Senior Vice President, Human Resources Mitchell Cohen, MD Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Clinical Affairs Brian D. Coley, MD Radiologist-in-Chief and Director, Department of Radiology Dwight E. Ellingwood Senior Vice President, Planning and Business Development Michael K. Farrell, MD Chief-of-Staff Jane Garvey Vice President, Marketing and Communications Tracy Glauser, MD Associate Director, Clinical Translational Outcomes and Health Services Research, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation Scott J. Hamlin Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Hoying, PhD, RN Senior Vice President, Department of Patient Services

Marianne F. James Senior Vice President, Information Services, and Chief Information Officer William M. Kent Senior Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations Uma R. Kotagal, MD Senior Vice President, Quality and Transformation Charles Dean Kurth, MD Anesthesiologist-in-Chief and Director, Department of Anesthesia Frederick Ryckman, MD Senior Vice President, Medical Operations James A. Saporito Senior Vice President, Development Elizabeth A. Stautberg, Esq. General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Legal and Public Affairs Arnold W. Strauss, MD Physician-in-Chief; Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati; and Director, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation Jeffrey Whitsett, MD Interim Associate Director, Basic Sciences, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation

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