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The medical health of our country has changed dramatically over the last century. Scientific and technologic discoveries have resulted in a marked reduction in neonatal and infant mortality, and unprecedented improvements in child health in the United States. Many of the advances and innovative technologies that impact adult diseases can be targeted to improve health during childhood. Personalized medicine and predictive health carry the promise of providing a preventive, proactive treatment program for young at-risk individuals. These advances, with the promise of improved adult, as well as, child health, make it essential to support well-designed translational and clinical studies in children, conducted by appropriately trained pediatric investigators in the safest and most ethical research environment. FDA initiatives, in particular, the Pediatric Rule, make studies in children even more pressing. While research with children presents special challenges, the rewards of successful research are the prospect of a long and healthy future.

The Departments of Pediatrics (DOP) at Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) are partners in providing care for children in Atlanta and in promoting excellence in research and teaching. The relationship between the two schools of medicine and CHOA provides an unprecedented opportunity for growth and expansion in translational and clinical research in child health and disease. Therefore, we developed a Clinical and Translational Research Program for Pediatrics (CTRPP) within the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) to support and develop pediatric research. The DOPs at Emory, MSM and CHOA worked with Georgia Tech and Kaiser Permanente Georgia to develop an academic home for the conduct of pediatric clinical and translational research that effectively reaches the entire Atlanta pediatric community. The CTRPP provides a coherent and integrated program in pediatric clinical and translational research by enhancing specific elements in research infrastructure including designated inpatient and outpatient clinical interaction sites, trained pediatric navigators and research subject advocates, integration between the CHOA office of clinical research and Institutional Review Boards, integrated clinical informatics, and support for pediatric-based community engagement programs. In addition, the CTRPP, working with the Research, Education, Training and Career Development program, provides training, education, and the opportunity for establishing newly-trained clinical, translational pediatric investigators to meet the goal of rapidly translating available scientific discoveries to the community through hospital and community-based programs.