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2006 Annual Report:
Recent Achievements and Research Revenue
Recent Achievements
- Ranked second among all medical school-based Departments of Pediatrics in National Institutes of Health research awards
- Total funding in 2006 from research grants and contracts is $85,556,169
- U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics seventh in the country
- U.S. News and World Report ranked the Department's Child Health Associate/ Physician Assistant Program sixth in the country, out of 135 programs. Of note, our CHA/PA Program is the only pediatric physician assistant program in the country
- The Department has 32 subspecialty Sections and Programs and is affiliated with Denver Health, the National Jewish Medical and Research Center and the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
- The Department trains 75 residents, 77 pediatric fellows, 170 medical students and 120 physician assistant students annually
- Four of the Department's faculty have served as President of the American Academy of Pediatrics and one as President of the Physician Assistant Education Association
- Nineteen faculty members have NIH K23 awards and three have K24 awards
- The Department has nine NIH training grants in the areas of pulmonary diseases; nutrition; diabetes; hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation; neonatology; gastroenterology; cardiovascular-pulmonary diseases; endocrinology; and health outcomes
- Our Pediatric Clinical Translational Research Center is one of only six exclusively pediatric research programs in the U.S. funded by the NIH. It receives approximately $3.5 million annually in direct NIH funding, which helps to support more than 150 research protocols
- The Research Institute, established in 1992, has increased the role of The Children's Hospital and community philanthropy in research. Since its inception, the RI has awarded $5,700,000 to promising pediatric scientists in all disciplines found at The Children's Hospital
Research Revenue
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