Department of Pediatrics
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation)
I received my medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine in 2011, prior to completing my Pediatrics residency at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. I completed a fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology in 2017 and a post-doctoral fellowship Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics in 2018 at the University of Chicago. I subsequently became a member of the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology division at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago in 2018.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care) and Medical Education
Dr. Sharon Unti is the Director of the Pediatric Residency Program for McGaw Medical Center/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine based at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. In this role, she has overall accountability for the residency program including resident recruitment, administering and maintaining a learning environment conducive to educating residents as it relates to all ACGME competencies, ensuring the quality of resident didactic and clinical education, monitoring resident performance, evaluating teaching faculty, and providing resident guidance and...
Professor of Pediatrics (Adolescent Medicine) and Preventive Medicine
My primary clinical and research activities relate to the care of marginalized youth populations including HIV+ and LGBT young people. Our research is largely HIV prevention in nature, mostly targeting either young men who have sex with men or transgender individuals. A new area of research and clinical interest involves working with young gender variant children and families
Professor of Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care) and Preventive Medicine
I joined the Northwestern faculty in 1987 after completing a pediatric residency and Academic General Pediatric Fellowship at Children's Memorial Hospital.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)
As an attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, I seek to obtain expertise with data science and machine learning methodologies to better elucidate phenotypic characteristics and more precisely identify interventions in the pediatric acute care setting. I derive satisfaction from treating pediatric patients with acute care conditions in the pediatric emergency department in a team with residents, nurse practitioners, and nurses.
With respect to research, the work I have performed to date demonstrates an avid interest in clinical and health services research in a variety of domains w...
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation)
Bio
I am a Pediatric Hematologist with an academic focus and clinical expertise in Thrombosis and Hemostasis and Neonatal Hematology. I am passionate about understanding the role of the developing hemostatic system and it's impact on neonatal thrombosis, the interaction of clinical and acquired risk factors in thrombus development and developing risk stratification models to predict thrombosis.
Academic Focus
My clinical-research focus is on neonatal thrombosis and bleeding, new anti-thrombotic therapies and improving quality of life in children on extended anticoagulation. My investigator in...
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.
Instructor of Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)
I am a pediatrician and internist with interest in the health impact of an individual's household environment across a life course.
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.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
Dr Arshad is an Assistant Professor at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She joined Northwestern in 2018 after completing her Pediatric Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Duke University in Durham, NC. Prior to that she obtained her MBBS degree from the Aga Khan University in Pakistan.
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Lurie Children's is the Feinberg School of Medicine's affiliated hospital dedicated to pediatric care. Lurie Children's is Illinois' only freestanding hospital exclusively for children and offers patients access to world-class care in a modern, kid-friendly environment.
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