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Nicholas R Zessis

Instructor of Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)

Dr. Zessis is a hospital pediatrician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. His academic and clinical interests include Hospital Medicine on the medical floor and intensive care unit, medical education, quality improvement, and advocacy. He is a member of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators and is currently enrolled in the Medical Education Certificate Program. 

Jennifer Jao

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)

Dual certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. Jao is an Associate Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Departments of Pediatric and Adult Infectious Diseases whose research focus is HIV maternal child health. She obtained her MD at the Medical College of Georgia and completed a Medicine/Pediatrics residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She trained in Infectious Diseases and obtained her MPH degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Mark H Fishbein

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition)

Primary research interest include the quality of life related to families of children with feeding disorders, clinical imaging related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children, and lifestyle interventions used to treat childhood and familial obesity.

Ellen E Kim

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)

Growth and thyroid disorders, diabetes, pubertal disorders, adrenal disorders, PCOS

Guilherme Baptista de Faria

Instructor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)

My primary areas of clinical interest are preventive cardiology (obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and screening) as well as inpatient and outpatient diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease. I enjoy educating medical students, residents and fellows through bedside teaching as well as formal didactic lectures. My main areas of research interestinclude the effect of obesity on the cardiovascular system of children and adults.

Anthony J Mancini

Professor of Pediatrics (Dermatology) and Dermatology

Anthony J. Mancini, MD is Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Head of the Division of Pediatric Dermatology at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, where he directs the division’s pediatric dermatology fellowship training program. He is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Academy of pediatrics. Dr. Mancini’s clinical and research interests include infantile hemangiomas, atopic dermatitis, acne vulgaris and exanthems of childhood. He has published over 245 peer-reviewed articles, ab...

Sally Reynolds

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)

I graduated from Loyola Medical School and did pediatric residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Children's Memorial Hospital / Northwestern University. I served as the medical director of the emergency department at Children's Memorial and Lurie Children's hospital. I'm currently the medical director of risk management. I'm very involved in disaster planning for children and hospital preparedness.

Angela J Waanders

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation)

I am a pediatric neuro-oncologist and my research focus is developing novel therapeutic strategies for children with brain and spinal cord tumors. My research began in 2007 as a pediatric hematology oncology fellow in the Biegel Laboratory (at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) 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 ...

Dana Aronson Schinasi

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)

My primary clinical and academic interests align in the development, implementation, and assessment of telehealth and digital health programs, with the overarching goals of improving access to care for children, supporting clinicians, and reinforcing the patient-centered medical home. My additional research interests lie in medical education and simulation, specifically in using immersive simulation to train health care providers for difficult conversations encountered during clinical care.

Michael L Miller

Professor of Pediatrics (Rheumatology) and Pathology

My research and clinical interests focus on the use of informatics to improve quality and research projects, by coordinating flow of data from diverse sources, including the electronic medical record. My research is in health related quality of life of children with arthritis. I am in the Division of Rheumatology at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Administratively, I am Director of Clinical Research Informatics at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. I am the inaugural Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program, Feinberg School of Medicine; the first fello...

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