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Ajay Bhasin

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine) and Pediatrics

Dr. Bhasin completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in 2016. His primary focus is in the care of hospitalized adults and hospitalized children.

Jennifer S Wicks

Instructor of Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)

As a hospital-based pediatrician, Dr. Wicks works at both Lurie Children's Hospital and Prentice Women's Hospital with clinical areas of focus including management of critically ill newborns in the Neonatal ICU. Dr. Wicks' interests also include clinical education of medical students and residents.

Sameer Patel

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)

I am the Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. I lead efforts to promote judicious use of antibiotics and limit the emergence of antibiotic resistance. My clinical and research interests include antimicrobial stewardship, multi-drug resistant infections, and patient safety and quality.

Santhanam Suresh

Professor of Anesthesiology (Pediatric Anesthesiology) and Pediatrics

Regional Anesthesia in ChildrenPain Management in Children

Melanie M Makhija

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Allergy and Immunology)

I have clinical and research interests in food allergy including immunotherapy and biologic treatments, eosinophilic esophagitis, asthma and primary immunodeficiency. I am currently a primary and co-investigator on several multi-center national and international food allergy, eosinophilic esophagitis and asthma clinical trials.

Kiona Y Allen

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)

Dr. Kiona Allen is the Medical Director of the Regenstein Cardiac Care Unit, Medical Director of the Single Ventricle Center of Excellence, and Associate Director of the NICU-Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. Her clinical and research focus is in the longitudinal medical, neurodevelopmental, and psychosocial care of patients with critical cardiac disease in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Angela J Waanders

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation)

I am a pediatric neuro-oncologist and my research focus is developing novel therapeutic strategies for children with brain and spinal cord tumors. My research began in 2007 as a pediatric hematology oncology fellow in the Biegel Laboratory (at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) profiling brain tumors on the Illumina 550K high density SNP-array platform. My work directly led to the discovery of an activated novel KIAA1549-BRAF fusion oncogene in the majority of pediatric low-grade gliomas (PLGGs). This genomic abnormality has since been found to be a hallmark of PLGGs. Over the course of ...

Brandi M Kenner-Bell

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Dermatology) and Dermatology

Brandi Kenner-Bell completed her MD at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, where she continued on to complete her pediatrics residency at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kenner-Bell then moved on to a second residency in dermatology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL as well as her pediatric dermatology fellowship at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

Patrick C Seed

Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology-Immunology

Patrick C. Seed, MD, Ph.D. is President and Chief Research Officer at the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He is a Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is an Attending Physician in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases int eh Department of Pediatrics and past Division Head. Dr. Seed’s lab aims to translate molecular knowledge of microbial/microbiome genetics, physiology, and pathogenesis into diagnostics and treatments for a broad range of pedi...

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The Department of Pediatrics strives to create and maintain training programs that mirror the diverse patient population we serve in Chicago. We believe that diverse faculty, residency and fellowship programs are essential to our long-term success as leaders in academic medicine.

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