I am the Director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. My clinical interests center on hemoglobin disorders, including pediatric and adult sickle cell disease and thalassemia. I am also a clinical investigator with active research programs in these areas. My major research interests focus on exercise responses, inflammation and vascular function as well as their impact on cardiopulmonary fitness, clinical outcomes and physical functioning in children and young adults with sickle cell anemia. I am also the principal investigator of se...

My interests are focused on diagnosis and treatment of children with Gastrointestinal and Liver disease. Specifically, I focus on gastrointestinal endoscopy, both for diagnostic purposes but also for new modalities of therapy and diagnostics including treatment of GI bleeding, complex polyposis syndromes, Gastrointestinal Strictures, treatment of Portal Hypertension, capsule endoscopy, Single Balloon Enteroscopy and new techniques such as Trans-nasal Endoscopy. I have an interest in cholestatic liver disease and participate in the Childhood Liver Disease Research and Education Network (CHiLD...

I am interested in the causes and treatment of heart failure in children, both congenital and acquired--this includes myocarditis, Single ventricle patients and all types of cardiomyopathy. I believe we can make significant improvements in the long term outcomes of young patients with cardiomyopathy, in terms of their quality of life, and survival. As the medical director of transplant/heart failure, I am committed to studying the clinical aspects of pediatric heart transplantation, particularly in improving the late outcomes that impact on survival, such as allograft vasculopathy and late rej...

Isabelle De Plaen, MD, is an attending physician in the Division of Neonatology (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at Lurie Children’s, Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and a member of the Center for Intestinal and Liver Inflammation Research at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute.

Dr. Shapiro completed his residency training in Pediatrics and is currently completing a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. He is also completing coursework to obtain a Masters of Science in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety at the Norwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

My primary clinical and academic interests align in the development, implementation, and assessment of telehealth programs, with the overarching goals of improving access to care for children, supporting clinicians, and reinforcing the patient-centered medical home. My additional research interests lie in medical education and simulation, specifically in using immersive simulation to train health care providers for difficult conversations encountered during clinical care.

Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Education, and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a founding volunteer of the Chicago Youth Programs, a community-based organization that works to improve the health and life opportunities of at-risk youth. She is also Associate Chair of Advocacy for the Department of Pediatrics and Medical Director of Lurie Children’s Injury Prevention & Research Center and Lurie Children's Healthy Communities.

Over the course of his training Dr Nolan developed a strong interest in the complex relationship between autoimmunity and immunodeficiency. As a clinician his goal is to more rapidly and more accurately diagnose autoinflammatory and immune dysregulatory syndromes, and in so doing help identify effective treatments for patients with these exceedingly rare conditions. He hopes to advance translational research in this rapidly developing field as a clinician with a strong background in immunology bench research. His additional interests include general pediatric rheumatology 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.

Dr. Jerome Lane is an attending physician in Pediatric Nephrology at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He earned a B.A. in Classics and Biology from Brandeis University in 1987, and his M.D. degree from the New York University School of Medicine in 1991. Dr. Lane completed his residency in Pediatrics at NYU Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital in 1994, and his fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Hospital in 1997.