Meet the Fellows
Current Fellows

Robyn Lottes, MD, PhD (2025-2026)
- Program: Heart Failure/Heart Transplant
- Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine, Charleston, SC
- Residency: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine/ Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Past Fellows
First Position After Graduation
Dean Karahalios, DO (2024-2025): Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Madison
Ashish Garg (2023 – 2024): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Richard Crawford (2022 – 2024): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Arkansas Children’s
Carlos Blanco (2021 – 2022): Attending at AdventHealth in Orlando, FL
Brian Madden, MD (2020-2021): Instructor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Defne Magnetta, MD (2019-2020): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL