Department of Pediatrics

As a physician-scientist, my long-term objective is to define immunologic mechanisms of gastrointestinal inflammation that drive clinical phenotype/outcome. This is key to identifying novel therapeutic targets, improving outcomes, reducing morbidity and personalizing care. My focus is on Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Diseases (EGID), in particular Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE), Eosinophilic Gastritis (EoG), and Eosinophilic Duodenitis (EoD). EoE, in particular, involves symptoms of esophageal dysfunction and immune mediated eosinophil-predominant inflammation secondary to chronic exposure to ...

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.

I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician scientist and Scientific Director for Community, Population Health and Outcomes at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. As the Mary Ann and J. Milburn Smith Research Professor for the Director of Child Health Research, I lead a multidisciplinary team of investigators and research professionals in the Smith Child Health Outcomes, Research, and Evaluation Center. I completed a combined pediatric emergency medicine and pediatric health services research fellowship at the University of Mic...

Interested in effects of physiologic and biochemical support after pediatric cardiac arrest and relationship to oucome. Also interested in diagnostic studies and prognosticatoin for these patients. Committed to critical care delivery, improvement, education, and discovery.

Audrey Brewer, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician and a researcher in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Division of Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care, and Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research, Outreach, and Advocacy Center. Dr. Brewer has close to 10 years of experience working as a board-certified pediatrician, where for five years she worked at Lawndale Christian Health Center (LCHC), a federally qualified health care center (FQHC) on the West Side of Chicago. Dr. Brewer re...

In addition to caring for infants, children, and adolescents with a variety of neurologic conditions, Dr Rubin has specialized training and interest in acquired demyelinating diseases (multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica) and genetic white matter diseases (leukodystrophies). She serves as the director of Lurie's Leukodystrophy Care Center, a multidisciplinary program developed to provide the best possible care to patients with leukodystrophies and their families at every stage of their disease. 

Dr. Candace Mannarino is an attending physician in the divisions of cardiology (cardiac intensive care) and pediatric critical care medicine. She has a Master's in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. She is the Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and the Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Clerkship. She is also the Faculty Lead of the Cardiac Care Unit Simulation Program at Lurie Children’s. As the medical director of ECMO for Lurie Children's Hospital, her clinical interests are in cardiac critical care and extracorporeal life support. Her r...

Joanna Blackburn, MD received her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, completed her pediatrics residency at NYU and her child neurology residency at Northwestern University/Children's Memorial Hospital (now Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago). She then completed a fellowship in pediatric movement disorders at University of Rochester. She joined the faculty at Northwestern University/Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago in 2012. Additionally she has been the program director for the child neurology residency training program since 2013.

Dr. Brian Madden completed medical school at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, MO in 2013.  He then completed his pediatric residency at Dayton Children’s Hospital from 2013-2016.  He worked from 2016-2017 as an attending physician at the Dayton Children’s Hospital Emergency Department.  Dr. Madden then completed his fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the University of Virginia from 2017-2020.  Dr. Madden completed his advanced fellowship in pediatric Heart Failure and Transplantation at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago from 2020-2021, and remai...