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Professor, Pediatrics (Neurology and Epilepsy), Medical Education, Neurology - Ken and Ruth Davee Department
My area of academic interest focuses on pediatric neurocritical care especially as it pertains to epilepsy, status epilepticus, coma, brain injury, and neurophysiology.
Professor, Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)
Professor, School of Law
Seema K. Shah, JD, Professor in Pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School and Director of Research Ethics at Lurie Children’s Hospital, is an expert in the fields of pediatrics and global health research ethics, as well as on ethical issues in the determination of death. After attending Stanford University, Shah completed a fellowship in bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. She then received legal training at Stanford and in a federal district court clerkship. Shah was previously on faculty at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital ...
Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
After having served on the faculty at both Duke and UNC, Dr. Jhaveri joined the faculty at Lurie/FSM in October 2018. He currently serves as Division Head for Pediatric Infectious Diseases.Dr. Jhaveri is active in leadership of several infectious diseases society at the national level. From 2015-2019, he served as a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Board of Directors. He is the current Chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Leadership Institute subcommittee and past-Chair of the IDSA Standards, Practice and Guidelines Committee. He is a member of the AASLD-IDSA ...
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine), Medical Education
I came to the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital as a Pediatric Emergency Medicine attending after graduating fellowship in 2014. I am currently the Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship and the Co-director of the Office of Fellowship Programs.
Professor, Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Pediatrics
Primary research focused on clinical outcome measures in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and surrogate outcomes for clinical trials, and exercise and participation in SMA. Board member participating in collaborative efforts developing and providing competency based education for those engaged with patients with SMA and their families STEP-IN SMA. Lead the Northwestern PT GoBabyGo! Program examining early mobility adaptations and use in young children. Also a member of Pediatric Assessment Labs (PALs) at PTHMS.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)
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.
Professor, Pediatrics (Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine)
Robert Garofalo MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He is the founding Chief of the Division Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine at Lurie Children's Hospital and previously served as the hospital's director of adolescent HIV services. Dr. Garofalo founded and co-directs the Lurie Children’s Gender and Sexual Development Program. He received a B.S. from Duke University (1988), his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine (1992) and a M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Garofalo has >25 years o...
Research Professor, Pediatrics (Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine)
My primary areas of research interest are prevention of behavioral transmission of HIV infection and promotion of health and wellness among HIV-impacted adolescent and young adult populations, including sexual and gender minorities. In particular, I have been involved in the development of practical and scalable interventions across the HIV care continuum, including mHealth interventions, in both the United States and internationally.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation)
I am a pediatric neuro-oncologist with current research focus in data analytics. My research career began in 2007 as a pediatric hematology oncology fellow in the Biegel Laboratory 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 the subsequent decade, I developed preclinical models for molecular characterization of genomic discover...
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