Chair of Pediatrics, Chief Medical Officer, Director of the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, University of Cincinnati
Tina L. Cheng, MD, MPH is the B.K. Rachford Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, and Chief Medical Officer at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC).
Dr. Cheng’s clinical work, teaching, research, and advocacy focus on child, adolescent and family perspectives on improving health, community-integrated models to interrupt the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage, and innovation to achieve excellent and equitable health outcomes. She has established enduring care delivery programs and innovation centers at Children’s National Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University. At Cincinnati Children’s she helped to establish the Michael Fisher Child Health Equity Center and the Mental and Behavioral Health Institute. She oversees a department and research foundation with over 850 outstanding faculty and 5,100 clinical and research staff.
An author of over 200 publications, Cheng has received numerous federal and foundation grants. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine she serves on their Forum for Children’s Well-Being and is Vice Chair of the maternal child health section. She has participated in committees of the National Academies and co-led the study on “Launching Lifelong Health By Improving Health Care of Children, Youth and Families.”
President-elect of the Association of Medial School Pediatric Department Chairs, she is past president of the Academic Pediatric Association and past chair of the AAP Committee on Pediatric Research. She has been recognized with the AAP Education Award, Job Lewis Smith Award for Community Pediatrics, and the APA Public Policy and Advocacy Award.
Cheng graduated from Brown University’s 7-year Program in Medicine, completed pediatrics residency and chief residency at the University of California, San Francisco, preventive medicine residency and masters in public health from the University of California, Berkeley, and fellowship in academic general pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts.
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Monday, April 14, 2025
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