General Pediatrics - Director of the Mayerson Center ...

Cincinnati Children's seeks a visionary, dynamic, innovative, and collaborative leader to serve as the next director for the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children. Applications and nominations are invited, and confidential conversations are welcomed.The Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children is renowned nationally and internationally for excellence in child abuse clinical care, research, education and advocacy. The director will collaboratively create and lead an innovative vision to transform health outcomes and build fiscal vitality by: Leading and developing transformational clinical and research programs Recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty and staff Identifying emerging and new areas of emphasis and promise Facilitating world-class clinical and educational programming Building and sustaining community partnerships to address evolving needs Mentoring and developing the academic skills of all team membersClinicalThe Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children was established in 2000. Each year, more than 2,000 children for whom abuse is suspected are evaluated from 22 Ohio counties, as well as Kentucky and Indiana. We collaborate with many community partners in the investigation and treatment of victims at our 5,000-square-foot facility on Cincinnati Children's Oak Campus. Our center is one of a distinct group of 600 child abuse centers in the United States known as Child Advocacy Centers (CAC). The Mayerson Center is fully accredited by the National Children's Alliance and one of the few housed within a children's hospital. As a CAC, we implement practices that minimize trauma for the child and family within a multi-disciplinary environment which includes child abuse physicians, trauma trained psychologists, forensically skilled social workers, forensic nurses, child protection workers and law enforcement from the surrounding counties.Our clinical responsibilities also extend to those children admitted to CCHMC when a concern of child abuse is raised. Mayerson Center coverage for in-patient care is available 24/7. We collaborate with patient services in a forensic nursing clinical service which covers the emergency department 24/7. As CCHMC continues to grow its regional, national, and international presence, clinicians may be asked to work at locations outside of the Burnet Campus.Beyond the immediate horror of abuse, childhood trauma can have a critical and lifelong impact on a child's development, physical and mental health, educational success and well-being. Our Center goals include keeping children safe, identifying those children who have been harmed, preventing child abuse and neglect and improving the outcomes of children exposed to trauma and violence.ResearchWe conduct research that informs our interventions, assessments, treatments and teachings. We have helped to define the national standard for the evaluation and treatment of victims of child abuse and maltreatment. Areas of research have included interventions and best practices for conducting effective, low-stress child forensic interviews, improving medical evaluations to correctly identify victims of abuse, and using parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) to reduce behavioral issues in trauma-exposed youth. Our findings inform patient care and treatment throughout Cincinnati Children's, helping to implement trauma-informed care into everyday practices. In addition, our research is used to train state and local law enforcement, children services case workers, school administrators and teachers, and other supportive adults who work with children i

Created: 2026-04-15