Residency Program Leadership
Thank you for your interest in Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Our program’s mission is to provide the highest quality training to every resident and the highest quality care to every child and family. We are proud to serve a large, dynamic community and love calling Chicago our home.
Each year, we recruit, welcome and support pediatric residents with wide-ranging backgrounds and interests in clinical care, leadership, advocacy, research and medical education. We know that we learn better, deliver better care and think more creatively and expansively when we do.
The culture of learning, teaching, and intentional design is a point of immense pride for our program and department. We view our residency - from the schedule, to the curriculum, to the mentoring — as an opportunity to not only train the best future clinicians and leaders but also shape the future of pediatrics. Our goal is to recruit and graduate incredibly smart, prepared, thoughtful pediatricians and leaders and to deliver training in a way where residents feel supported, purposeful, challenged, and able to over three years deepen their appreciation and love of medicine, science, curiosity and passion for patient care in all of its dimensions.
Engagement, passion, compassion, humility, curiosity, teamwork and communication are vital elements of this process. We seek residents who have a growth mindset and are ready for the challenge of contributing to a program that is always working to improve ourselves, as well as the lives of children, families and communities. Our program is both structured and flexible. We provide exceptional clinical training as well as intentional and individualized opportunities for residents to explore and advance their skills and interests in the full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient subspecialties, science, quality improvement, health informatics, healthcare administration, advocacy, policy, community partnerships, global health, simulation and education.
Finally, our residents get to do all of this while living in the vibrant and dynamic city of Chicago, the best big city in America, with its world-renowned food, architecture, festivals, neighborhoods, museums, music, recreation and beaches.
If you are interested in collaborating with us, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We welcome your questions and interest.

Catherine D. Michelson, MD, MMSc
Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Graduate Education, Hospital-Based Medicine

Nina L Alfieri, MD, MS, FAAP
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care

James W. Collins, Jr., MD, MPH
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Neonatology

Uchenna C. Pelzer, MD
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Hospital-Based Medicine

Amanda Gomez, MD
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Neonatology

Kirsten Loftus, MD, MEd
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Emergency Medicine

Elizabeth Asare
Associate Director, Pediatric Medical Education

Gorden Rhutasel
Manager, Pediatric Residency Program

Leah Turner
Senior Administrative Assistant, Pediatric Medical Education

Diana Meza
Senior Medical Education Coordinator, Pediatric Residency Program

Lindsey Burdick
Senior Medical Education Coordinator, Pediatric Residency Program