Ray E. Helfer Award
Ray E. Helfer was an esteemed pediatric educator, child advocate and past President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. The purpose of the award is to recognize creative, scholarly work in pediatric education that is described in a paper submitted for the Annual APA Meeting. The Ray E. Helfer Foundation for Children and Families provides financial support for this award.
Past Award Winners
- 2011
- Amy Starmer, MD
Impact of a Resident Handoff Bundle on Medical Error Rates and Written Handoff Miscommunications - 2010
- Michael Weisgerber, PhD
The SOS-REACH (Suspected Observable Senior Resident Empowerment Action Checklist), a Novel Instrument for Evaluating Senior Resident Empowerment during Family-Centered-Rounds
- Tao Xu, PhD
Impact of nationwide Training Program for Neonatal Resuscitation in People's Republic of China
- Tao Xu, PhD
- 2009
- Dorene Balmer, PhD
Impact Versus Explicit Curricula in General Pediatrics: Is There a Convergence?
- 2008
- Jennifer Arnold, MD
Effect of High Fidelity Simulation Curriculum on Pediatric Resident Competency in Neonatal Airway Management Skills
- 2007
- Teaching Procedural Skills to Pediatric Residents: A Randomized Interventional Trial
Michael G. Gaies
Effects of the World Health Organization Essential Newborn Care Training Course on Early Neonatal Mortality by level of Maternal Education
Elwyn Chomba - 2006
- Development and validation of high fidelity patient simulator case scenarios for pediatric resident evaluation
Mark Adler, MD - 2005
- Impact of Duty Hour Restrictions on General Pediatrics Faculty Teaching
Karen J. Marcdante, MD, Charlene Gabler-Uhing, MD, Dawn Bragg, PhD, and Deborah E. Simpson, PhD,
Departments of Pediatrics and Educational Services, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI - 2004
- Impact of an Innovative CD-ROM Designed to Improve Ambulatory Teaching
Philip O. Ozuah, MD, PhD, Mary Ottolini, MD, MPH and Larrie Greenberg, MD
Children's Hospital at Montefiore/ Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC - 2003
- Asthma Severity Classification: Using Standardized Patients to Measure Residents' Competency
Philip O. Ozuah, Sandra Braganza and Iman Sharif
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - 2002
- Measuring Medical Knowledge Competencies Using Web-Enhanced Instruction During a Pediatric Resident Ambulatory Block Month
Carl Erwin Johnson and Larry Hurtubise
Columbus Children's Hospital - 2001
- Evaluating Evidence-Based Decision Making Skills: Development and Validation of an Instrument
Alan Schwartz
Virginia Commonwealth University - 2000
- Evaluation of 'Breastfeeding Basics' an Educational Course on the World Wide Web
Mary E. O'connor
Case Western Reserve University, Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital Cleveland, OH - 1999
- Can a Primary Care Based Asthma Intervention Affect Service Use, Home Management and Morbidity for Inner-City Children?
Karen Warman, E.J. Silver, Nora Esteban-Cruciani, M.P. McCourt, Laurie J. Bauman, and Ruth E.K. Stein
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY - 1998
- Does a Health Maintenance Curriculum for Pediatric Residents Improve Performance?
Joseph Lopreiato and D. Michael Foulds
University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio - 1997
- The Development and Evaluation of a CD-ROM Computer Program to Teach Residents Telephone Management
Mary C. Ottolini and Larrie Greenberg
Childrens National Medical Center Washington, DC - 1996
- Counseling Parents of a Child Dead on Arrival (DOA): The Effective Use of Standardized Patients (SPs)
Larrie Greenberg, Dan Ochsenschlager, Regina O'Donnell, Jennifer Mastruseri and George Cohen
Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine - 1994
- Evaluation of Clinical Competence:
The Gap Between Expectation and Performance
Bahman Joorabchi and Jeffrey Devries
Department of Pediatrics, Henry Ford Health System and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan
