Department of Pediatrics
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Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
I am a pediatric endocrinologist with a research and clinical interest in improving care for those with Type 2 Diabetes and those in adolescence and early adulthood.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)
Dr. Attridge is a pediatric emergency medicine physician. Her research focuses on the intersection of social influencers of health and injury prevention. She has a special interest in the prevention of firearm injury and sleep-related infant death, as well as food insecurity in the emergency department. She is also a co-director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow Advocacy Curriculum and hopes to engage more faculty and fellows in advocacy efforts that promote child health and health equity.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Critical Care), Pediatrics (Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine)
Pediatric pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease of childhood, Mechanical ventilation.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)
Rebecca Stephen, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She is the Medical Director for the Center for Quality and Safety and co-chairs the Quality and Safety Oversight Committee for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
Professor, Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine), Medical Social Sciences (Intervention Science)
Elizabeth Alpern is the George M. Eisenberg Professor of Pediatrics, Division Head of Emergency Medicine, and Vice Chair in the Department of Pediatrics of the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is both a pediatric emergency physician and clinical epidemiologist with research expertise in the use of large databases within research networks to improve the quality of emergent care delivered to children through application of evidence-based work. Dr. Alpern was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as the Princi...
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hospital Medicine), Pediatrics
I am a hospital-based physician, in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Northwestern Memorial and Lurie Children's Hospitals. I co-lead the Medical Decision Making (Evidence-based Medicine) course at the medical school and serve as core clinical faculty within the Internal Medicine Residency, which affords me additional opportunities to mentor and teach.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
Dr. Finlayson is a pediatric endocrinologist with specific clinical and research interests in conditions affecting reproductive and sex development in pediatrics. These include congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Klinefelter Syndrome, differences of sex development (DSD) and intersex conditions. She is the Medical Director of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Sex Development Program, the Medical Director of the Lurie Children’s Klinefelter Syndrome Program and a member of the Lurie Children’s Fertility Preservation & Hormone Restoration Program. Dr. Finlayson studies diagn...
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)
I am interested in adolescent reproductive health, Electronic Medical Record processes, Quality Improvement, and education of trainees and medical students
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Kavita S. Hodgkins, MD, MSCI, is a Board Certified Pediatric Nephrologist and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She practices as an Attending Physician in the outpatient clinics of Lurie Children's Hospital and also serves as the Director of Resident and Medical Student Education for the Division of Kidney Diseases. She has a joint position with the Urology Division at Lurie Children's Hospital and works closely with the Urology Divisi...[Read full text]Kavita S. Hodgkins, MD, MSCI, is a Board Certified Pediatric Nephrologist and an As...
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Neurology and Epilepsy)
I am a pediatric neurologist interested in all aspects of a child's welfare. My emphasis is on paroxysmal diseases- those that intermittently incapacitate children such as migraine headaches and epilepsy. I also have long standing interest in the biology of brain formation and in brain malformations.
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
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