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Faculty Spotlight

Rebecca Ruhana Burns

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)

My clinical interest is in Urgent Care/Pediatric Emergency Medicine. I am also involved in quality and process improvement as well as urgent care research.

Elizabeth N Groothuis

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)

I am a pediatric hospitalist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Prentice Women's Hospital. I primarily work in the NICU at these sites. When not involved with clinical work, I am heavily involved with global health education within our pediatric residency program.

Thomas P Green

Professor of Pediatrics (Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine)

I am interested in using quantitative pharmacologic approaches (modeling and simulation) to improve the understanding of drug disposition and effects in children. Pharmacometric interpretation of both population and clinical trial data can lead to more efficacious and safer treatments as well as provide guidance for the design of efficient, definitive pediatric clinical trials.

Mehul V Raval

Associate Professor of Surgery (Pediatric General Surgery) and Pediatrics

Mehul V. Raval, MD, MS grew up in a small town in North Carolina and from a young age was mesmerized by science and medicine. Dr. Raval completed his undergraduate studies as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his medical education at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. During medical school, he participated in a one-year Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. Dr. Raval trained in General Surgery at Northwestern University.  During this time he completed a 2-year Clinical Schoalrs Progfram at the American College of Surgeons in Chicago, IL and earned a Masters of Scie...

Kelly L Cox

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)

I am an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician in Cardiology at Lurie Children’s Hospital. I completed my general pediatric training at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. I completed my clinical cardiology training at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University Medical Center, followed by completion of non-invasive cardiac imaging training. 

Ruchi S Gupta

Professor of Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care), Medicine (Allergy and Immunology) and Preventive Medicine

Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Clinical Attending at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Gupta has more than 17 years of experience as a board-certified pediatrician and health researcher and currently serves as the founding director of the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR). She is world-renowned for her groundbreaking research in the areas of food allergy and asthma epidemiology, most notably for her research on the prevalence of pediatric and adult food allergy ...

Kiley P Johnson

Instructor of Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)

I am a clinician who enjoys providing primary care to general pediatric patients in an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Alex D Green

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition)

Dr. Green graduated from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and then did his pediatric residency at Case Western Reserve University - Metrohealth in General Pediatrics. He then went to Nationwide Children's Hospital and completed his Pediatric Gastroenterology training along with an additional year in Pediatric Gastrointestinal Motility. After training he was on faculty at the University of California San Francisco and established a Pediatric Gastrointestinal Motility Center. He then joined the faculty at Northwestern University / Lurie Children's Hospital in 2016.

Jarrett R Linder

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)

Dr. Linder is a pediatric cardiologist with advanced training in cardiac thrombosis and non-invasive imaging. He is devoted to the prevention and treatment of blood clots in children with heart disease. Dr. Linder has additional echocardiography training in transthoracic, transesophageal and fetal echocardiography. He has further interests in procedural imaging, 3D echocardiography and contrast echocardiography in pediatrics.

Meredith F Bone

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care) and Medical Education

I am a pediatric intensivist working with a team to care for broad range of critical ill children. My non-clinical work is centered on my roles as Director for the Office of Fellowship Programs and the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. My focus is on professional and career development of faculty and medical trainees.

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