Department of Pediatrics

My primary focus within the Division of Emergency Medicine is the delivery of safe, evidence-based clinical care and advancing quality improvement initiatives. I am dedicated to transforming care not only within our division but across the hospital, medical school, and through our community partnerships. I believe that integrating quality improvement education at the medical student level is critical to shaping future physicians who deliver care that is safe, equitable, efficient, effective, timely, and patient-centered.By implementing quality initiatives across both academic and community set...

After receiving his medical degree from Indiana University Medical School, Dr. Basu completed his residency in pediatrics and then a fellowship in pediatric critical care at Children's Memorial Hospital. He subsequently began his faculty career at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center as a Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics and advanced to Associate Professor, serving over time as the Co-Director for the Center for Acute Care Nephrology and Associate Fellowship Program Director. In 2017 he joined the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, where he se...

I have been an attending neonatologist in the Division of Neonatology since 2002, and have been a proud contributor to the growth of our division, our department and our hospital over the years. I completed my subspecialty training at Northwestern University following general pediatrics training at Boston City Hospital. Although originally a Texan, Chicago is my sweet home.

Mehul V. Raval, MD, MS grew up in a small town in North Carolina and from a young age was mesmerized by science and medicine. Dr. Raval completed his undergraduate studies as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his medical education at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. During medical school, he participated in a one-year Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. Dr. Raval trained in General Surgery at Northwestern University.  During this time he completed a 2-year Clinical Schoalrs Progfram at the American College of Surgeons in Chicago, IL and earned a Masters of Scie...

Dr. Caitlin Li is an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Lurie's Center for Quality and Safety. As the division QI director, she oversees intra- and inter-divisional quality improvement projects related to infectious diseases at Lurie. She completed dual fellowships in Infectious Diseases and Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety, and she earned her Masters in Healthcare Quality and Safety from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Li's work includes surgical site infection reduction efforts and advocacy around optimizing surgical site infection definitions, and she is the ass...

My clinical interests include providing evidence-based care in the diagnosis and management of food allergy, asthma and immunodeficiency. My research interests include food allergy, atopic march, and asthma. In particular, I am interested in elucidating the mechanisms that underlie the development of natural tolerance to foods so as to contribute to improved tools to evaluate current therapies as well as potentially develop novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of food allergies. I am also currently involved in clinical trials examining oral immunotherapy and other novel treatment mod...

Dr. Mann is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Division of Hospital-Based Medicine.  Dr. Mann's clinical work focuses on the care of hospitalized children at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, as well as the outpatient management of non-emergency illnesses and injuries at Immediate Care. Dr. Mann is passionate about health equity. She is involved in efforts throughout the hospital to improve health disparities including serving as a co-investigator for the research project FEATS (Fostering  Equity and Allyship Through Si...

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...

I am a pediatrician and child neurologist with a clinical focus on neurological disorders in infants and children specifically epilepsy. My interests are in the evaluation of children with drug resistant epilepsy for epilepsy surgery and treatment of children with tuberous sclerosis complex and infantile spasms. i believe in universal accessibility to healthcare, affordle health care for all, effective health care delivery, utilization and personnel management systems and fostering global collaborations in healthcare worldwide.

Clinical interest in pediatric hospital based medicine including care of inpatient general pediatric patients, neonates in the well baby nursery as well as the NICU, sedation, and pediatric urgent care. Quality improvement involvement in management of urinary tract infections in infants and young children.