The Division of Pediatric Pulmonology contains 23 faculty: 2 MD-PhD, 9 PhD, and 12 MD. Of these faculty, five are predominantly engaged in clinical medicine, and the others have strong research components to their programs, which bring in a total of about $6 million in direct costs each year. The training of MD and PhD scientists side by side has been shown to increase the probability that physicians will remain active in investigation after training.
Our program exists in the context of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, which is in a phase of rapid expansion of its research effort and has reached the top dozen medical schools for NIH funding support in the last few years. Our program is based in the Department of Pediatrics, which has been numbered among the top ten such departments for NIH funding for the last decade. This Department has 110 faculty based at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, which is among the top children’s hospitals in the United States, as named by U.S. News and World Report. Thus, the institutional setting of the program is one of balanced clinical and research excellence.