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Riley/IUSM Pediatrics Ranks 6th in Research Funding Among Nation's Medical Schools
08/02/2007
Riley Hospital for Children and the Indiana University School of Medicine's (IUSM) Pediatrics Department recently ranked 6th among the nations medical schools for research grant funding in the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The ranking further demonstrates the progress that Riley/IUSM is making in their comprehensive 10-year plan for preeminence which was announced in August 2005 by Dr. Ora Pescovitz, President and CEO of Riley Hospital and Executive Associate Dean of Research of IUSM. In this strategic plan, Riley set forth the goal of being one of the nation's top 10 children's hospitals in research within five years.
"If we keep this up, it is likely that in the next few years IUSM Pediatrics and Riley Hospital will be ranked in the top 3 among the nation's medical school Pediatric departments in research funding from the National Institutes of Health", says Richard Schreiner, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at IUSM and Physician in Chief of Riley Hospital.
"We are proud and grateful to all who are working hard to make this possible and, thereby, expand our understanding of the basic causes of diseases of children and improve our diagnostic and treatment options. It is only through research that we have dramatically improved the outcomes for children with serious diseases in the past, and it is only through research that we will do so in the future".