 Jennifer Arnold, M.D.
Medical Director of Pediatric Simulation Center
Texas Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Baylor College of Medicine
Jennifer Arnold, M.D., M.Sc. was recently recruited to be the medical director of the new Pediatric Simulation Center at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Arnold graduated from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2000 and then trained in resuscitative medicine and simulation education at the University of Pittsburgh’s Peter M. Winter Simulation, Education, and Research Center and within the Safar Center for Resuscitative Medicine as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Scholar. She also obtained her masters of medical education from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. Dr. Arnold received the Ray E. Helfer Award for Innovation in Medical Education from Ambulatory Pediatric Association for her research in simulation education.
Dr. Arnold also is involved in caring for critically ill newborns in Texas Children’s Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit—the highest level of care. Her patients include premature newborns with complex congenital heart disease, genetic/birth defects, respiratory problems, infections and gastroenterologic issues.
 Gail E. Besner, MD
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
John E. Fisher Endowed Chair in Neonatal Research
Director of Pediatric Surgical Research
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Gail E. Besner, MD joined the faculty of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in1991. She is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, the Program Director of the Pediatric Surgery Residency Training Program, and the Associate Burn Director at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She holds the John E. Fisher Endowed Chair in Neonatal Research at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Dr. Besner holds three separate million-dollar National Institutes of Health research grants to fund her passion, finding a cure for necrotizing enterocolitis. She has formed an important collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry to produce the growth factor she discovered in 1990 that will soon lead to clinical trials.
Dr. Besner graduated from the University of Cincinnati College Of Medicine and did her general surgery residence in Boston at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at Harvard Medical School. She completed her pediatric surgery training at Buffalo Children’s Hospital prior to coming to Nationwide Children's.
Dr. Besner has authored more than 120 articles and abstracts and has delivered over 300 local, national and international presentations during her career. She was the lead surgeon for the successful separation of two sets of conjoined twins at Nationwide Children's Hospital. As the Director of the Burn Unit at Nationwide Children's, Dr. Besner led this unit in attaining the status of the first fully accredited burn unit at a free standing children’s hospital in the United States.
 William G. Woods, M.D.
The Daniel P. Amos Children’s Chair
Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders
Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Associate Director, Childhood Cancer
Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT
Emory University
William G. Woods, M.D., is an internationally known leader in the field of childhood cancer. His two major cancer research interests are myeloid leukemia and neuroblastoma. For years he headed the acute myeloid leukemia (AML) strategy group of the Children’s Cancer Group (CCG). His work culminated in a study that determined how a defined blood marrow transplantation (BMT) therapy program improves overall survival for children with AML, as well as increases the overall cure rate to 50 percent for the first time. His second major research contribution, supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, involved investigating neuroblastoma screening and determined that screening children for neuroblastoma increases by two-fold the incidence of diagnosing this cancer without a concomitant decrease in overall mortality.
Dr. Woods graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1972 and then moved to the University of Minnesota where he did both his pediatrics and pediatric oncology training and became chief of the Hematology/Oncology section. In 1996, he became the director of the South Carolina Cancer Center in conjunction with the University of South Carolina.
Since 2001, Dr. Woods has been the director of the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. He has made clinical, administrative and research fundraising one of his top priorities. In Dr. Woods’ long tenure in academic pediatric hematology/oncology, he has helped train an esteemed group of more than 50 fellows, many of whom now hold prominent leadership positions in this specialty throughout the United States.
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