University of California, Irvine School of Medicine CHOC Children's announced Coleen Cunningham dual appointment

IRVINE, Calif. Following a country wide search, the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and CHOC Children's have mutually introduced that Coleen Cunningham, MD, a famend professor of pediatrics and pathology from Duke University, has everyday a twin appointment function as each the chair for the UCI Department of Pediatrics and as senior vice president and pediatrician-in-chief for CHOC Children's.  Her appointment is fantastic March 1, 2021.

 

In this unique, twin role, Cunningham will be accountable for main UCI's Department of Pediatrics and its sixteen divisions that span the spectrum of illnesses and disorders.  She is charged with bringing real-world academics, scientists and clinicians collectively to collaborate and discover new expertise via research, and correctly follow that understanding to improve kid's health. As senior vice president and pediatrician-in-chief (PIC) at CHOC Children's, Cunningham will serve as a senior scientific chief with oversight duty for the healthcare system's big pediatric clinical and surgical services, educational advancement, lookup and instructing programs, as properly as grow to be the key medical doctor govt liaison between CHOC and UCI.

"Dr. Cunningham's huge clinical experience, superior lookup understanding and super management competencies in the area of kid's fitness will be transformative to Orange County and the communities that CHOC and UCI serve," stated CHOC Children's President and CEO Kimberley Chavalas Cripe. "Combining the clinical, lookup and educational understanding of UCI and CHOC will now not solely improve the pediatric care of teens in the region, however additionally increase the training and coaching of the subsequent technology of pediatric specialists via a entirely built-in application that leverages a pinnacle tier kid's fitness device with a pinnacle tier educational fitness system."

Balancing the tripartite mission of UCI School of Medicine – Discover. Teach. Heal. – Cunningham will power research, instructional and scientific excellence, whilst assisting similarly CHOC's mission to nurture, enhance and defend the fitness and well-being of children. In her role, she will make sure full integration of lookup and tutorial priorities throughout the continuum of care at each CHOC and UCI's pediatric programs.

"Dr. Cunningham is a nationally-recognized student and forward-thinking leader, with a exclusive file of success in research, training and medical care," stated Michael J. Stamos, MD, dean of the UCI School of Medicine.  "We are assured in her potential to lead our organizations.  Hers is a tremendous story of fulfillment and we are honored to have her be part of us."

Cunningham joins UCI and CHOC Children's from Duke University the place she serves as professor with tenure in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, as chief of Global Health, and vice chair for lookup in the Department of Pediatrics.  She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Pathology at Duke.

Cunningham earned her scientific diploma from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, the place she additionally did her residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases.  At SUNY, Cunningham additionally served as an companion professor of pediatrics and division chief of infectious diseases, an partner professor of pathology and division chief of international health, a professor with tenure for pediatrics and pathology, and a lookup professor of international fitness and vice chair for lookup for pediatrics.

Her work on HIV and AIDS in youth has been identified severa times, as has her work on H1N1 influenza. Most recently, Cunningham used to be awarded the Denny, Katz, Simon, Tingelstad Academic Service Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics.  She additionally lately acquired the Translational Research Mentoring Award from Duke University Medical Center and used to be chosen for participation in the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine.

Cunningham has posted greater than a hundred and twenty manuscripts and led many multicenter medical trials aimed at the therapy and prevention of HIV contamination in children.  She has received quite a few aggressive lookup funding awards and served on National Institutes of Health and different supply reviews.  She has additionally executed massive work as an educator, instructing college students at all levels, from undergraduate to fellows, focusing on coaching Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician Scientists.