Department of Pediatrics

Clinically, I am a pediatric cardiac intensivist and I care for children of all ages with congenital and acquired heart disease who require critical care. Academically, I focus on medical education through the teaching and learning of students, trainees, staff, and faculty. I am most interested in faculty development in medical education as well as career development. I also use simulation to teach cardiac physiology and resuscitation.

I am a clinician heavily involved in quality improvement including conducting projects personally as well as overseeing a large pediatric program's quality improvement activities. These activities have led to multiple presentations and publications in all areas of pediatrics. Activities with national implications include developing a technique for securing endotracheal tubes in neonates and development of a bundle of care practices to prevent nosocomial airway infections in hospitalized neonates. The latter bundle of practices have become the standard of care across the United States. Recently...

Dr. Dirajlal-Fargo is an Associate Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Departments of Pediatric Infectious Diseases with a research focus in HIV. She obtained her DO at the University of New England and completed a Pediatrics residency at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. She trained in Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC.

I joined the department of pediatrics, division of Emergency Medicine in 2013 and since that time I have been clinically active seeing patients at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago's Emergency Care Center.  Most of my projects outside my clinical responsibilities are based on a desire to provide more efficient, equitable, safer, and evidence based care to the patients seen in the ED.  Through my work in quality improvement, outcomes research, epidemiology and evidence based medicine I strive to improve the care in every setting where children are being seen for acute illness...

My primary clinical interest lies in pediatric CT and MR imaging, with a specialty expertise and research focus in pediatric cardiovascular imaging.

I am an internist and a pediatrician with a research focus on the health of fathers and paternal contributions to the health of families.

I completed my BA in Biology from Williams College in 2005. Afterwards, I worked in a neurobiology lab at Harvard University as a research assistant. I then completed my MD from Drexel University College of Medicine in 2012. I then completed my pediatrics residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 2015. There I began my research interest in acute kidney injury (AKI). I continued developing my interest in AKI and fluid managment during my critical care fellowship at Children's Hospital Colorado and graduated in 2018. I completed my MS in Health Services and Outcomes Research ...

I study the experiences of families who have children hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit. My focus is on medical decision-making and the interactions of families with medical providers in the process of that decision-making. I also have an interest in how social media may impact medical information and decisions. In addition to this research and my work as a clinical neonatologist, I also work with the Lurie Bridges Pediatric Palliative Care team to provide palliative care consultation and support in the perinatal and neonatal populations.