Department of Pediatrics

Dr. LaPonsie is a pediatric hospitalist in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hospital-Based Medicine. She cares for patients at Lurie Children's Hospital and Prentice Women's Hospital and is the Associate Program Director for the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship and the Secretary/Treasurer for the Lurie Children's Medical Staff.

I am a pediatric and fetal cardiologist with a background in health economics and biostatistics. I research topics related to efficiency of pediatric and fetal cardiac care, including regionalization, reimbursement structures, prenatal diagnosis, access to and equity of care. This research is currently supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NHLBI K01HL171819) and foundation grants. 

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.

I am a physician scientist with a research interest in the developmental origins of obesity. I study metabolism in pregnancy and the near and long-term metabolic outcomes in children. My long-term goal is to facilitate early intervention to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

I am a clinical pediatric endocrinologist and physician-scientist engaged in clinical research focused on reproductive and metabolic disorders in children. I also have a strong interest in medical education and teaching medical studies, residents, and fellows.

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.

Dr. Kelley is a pediatric neurologist at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago with a special interest in Headache Medicine. She currently serves as the Associate Director of the Headache Program at Lurie Children's Hospital. Her interests include headache pain procedures, and being involved in clinical resesarch trials for novel headache treatments for children and adolescents.  

Dr. Davis was an aspiring veterinarian starting from early childhood. Halfway through her undergraduate studies in Animal Science, she shifted her career goals to merge a large animal livestock background with another topic that always fascinated her: genetics. This took her to Belgium to study sheep genetics under the mentorship of Michel Georges to investigate the molecular basis of the ovinecallipygelocus. After obtaining her PhD, Dr. Davis returned stateside to continue as an academic researcher, but to apply her skillset toward understanding the genetic architecture of a different specie:...

My principal effort at Lurie Children’s is in providing outstanding clinical care to my patients and medical education of various learners in the urgent care/emergency room setting.  I have conducted scholarly research in global health on characterizing infant sleep practices in resource scarce environments. I have also conducted laboratory bench research on development of low-cost Tuberculosis diagnostic assay and microbiologic research to characterize pathogenic composition of water samples in rural El Salvador in conjunction with Engineers without Borders. I have conducted clinical research...

Dr. Price is a pediatric hospitalist in the Division of Hospital Based Medicine as well as an Instructor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She completed a Chief Residency year in which she had experiences on hospital administration committees focused on patient safety and quality improvement. She has an interest in both undergraduate and graduate medical education.