Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Allen specializes in cardiovascular epidemiology with a focus on health services research. Her research interests include the effect of neighborhood and environment on cardiovascular disease, disparities in quality of care and outcomes as well as the use of large databases to examine these questions.

I am a pediatric endocrinologist engaged in clinical care, medical education, and clinical research. I am a co-director of our multidisciplinary Bone Health Program, practice general endocrinology as well as pediatric diabetes care.

My clinical focus is on the respiratory care of patients with neuromuscular weakness, and I am the pulmonologist who works in the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Clinic at Lurie Children's Hospital. My other clinical interests include asthma and chronic cough. Additionally, I am interested in medical education and curriculum development as well working to recruit a diverse medical workforce.

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...

Dr. Paisley is a hospital-based pediatrician. She received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her residency training at the former Children's Memorial Hospital (now Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital) where she served as Chief Pediatric Resident. Her interests include teaching and advising in undergraduate and graduate medical education, and the development of evidence-based clinical care guidelines.

My primary research interest is the induction of transplant tolerance; as it applies to the prevention and treatment of a/cGVHD in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and prevention and treatment of rejection in solid organ transplantation. As director of the Therapeutic Apheresis Program, I am very active in the field of apheresis, and am committed to providing state of the art apheresis procedures in all children. 

Dr. Popovsky is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and serves as the Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at Lurie Children’s Hospital. Her academic interests include pediatric emergency preparedness, critical care delivery in the emergency department and simulation. She is passionate about simulation development for mass casualty preparedness and response and how interdisciplinary teams can best prepare for low-frequency, high-stakes events. She is involved in local, regional, and national preparedness work through the Region V for Kids Disaster Center of Excellence, the Pediatri...

I am a pediatric neurologist interested in all aspects of a child's welfare. My emphasis is on paroxysmal diseases- those that intermittently incapacitate children such as migraine headaches and epilepsy. I also have long standing interest in the biology of brain formation and in brain malformations.

I am a board certified pediatrician with primary interests in the care of both the well and preterm or ill newborn. In addition to newborn care I provide procedural moderate sedation for pediatric patients of all ages.