Department of Pediatrics
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Instructor, Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)
My interests center around primary care and the coordination of care for children with special needs and children with medical complexity.
Professor, Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science), Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health), Medical Social Sciences (Implementation Science), Pediatrics
Jin-Shei Lai, Ph.D., OTR/L., is a registered occupational therapist and a trained psychometrician. She has been a member of the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), Proton Collaborative Group and the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC). Dr. Lai has significant research experiences in outcome measurement, quality of life, symptom management and late effect due to the illness and/or its treatment in chronic illness for both pediatric and adult populations. She is the lead developer of the pediatric Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness scales, including ...
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation)
I received my medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2013. I then went on Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago/McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University to complete my residency in Pediatrics in 2016 and fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant in 2019. After graduation, I joined the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant Division as a faculty member with a specialization in Hematologic Malignancies.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)
Kristin Kan, MD MPH Msc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, a health services researcher, and a practicing primary care pediatrician with a passion for the care of children with asthma and other special health care needs. Specifically. Dr. Kan is focused on scientifically improving our health care delivery models and addressing system- and community-level barriers to high-quality care for pediatric patients.Dr. Kan’s NIH-sponsored research leverages a user-centered design approach and implementation science to refine a digitally-supported model of care for pediatric ast...
Professor, Pediatrics (Nephrology), Microbiology-Immunology
We study the role of RANTES, a chemokine, and granulysin, a proinflammatory molecule in health and diseases, including cancer, infection, transplantation and autoimmunity.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Neurology and Epilepsy)
I am interested in all types of seizures/epilepsy particularly infantile spasms and medically refractory seizures.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology), Pediatrics (Palliative Care)
My academic focus is on understanding parental and providers' variability in addressing complex care decisions during prenatal and neonatal course. I am also focused on various aspects of perinatal palliative care delivery, and optimizing care pathways for families expecting infants with complex and/or life-limiting conditions. Finally, I am interested in studying and improving symptom management in infants with complex conditions in the Neonatal ICU.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology)
My academic interests are primarily focused on improving neonatal care and neonatal patient safety through quality improvement efforts. I participate in both Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative (ILPQC) and Children's Hospital Neonatal Consortium initiatives.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition)
My primary clinical and research interest is IBD (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) where I am the medical director of the IBD program at Lurie Children's, which now includes physician/APN/PA specialists, a psychologist, nurse clinicians, dieticians, and a dedicated social worker. I focus on translational and clinical research, including investigation of novel biomarkers, collaboration with overlapping specialists at Lurie and participation in numerous clinical trials. We are an active participant on the international IBD quality improvement and research consortium, Improve Care Now.
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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