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Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)
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...
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care), Medical Education
Dr. Sharon Unti is the Senior Advisor for Graduate Medical Education for the Department of Pediatrics of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine based at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She is also the Director of the Pediatric Alumni Network for the McGaw/Northwestern Pediatrics residency training program based at Lurie Children's Hospital (previously Children's Memorial Hospital).
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology)
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.
Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
Dr. Tan is Professor of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and a Pediatric Infectious Diseases attending; Medical Director of the International Patient Services Program (IPS); co-Director of the Pediatric Travel Medicine Clinic; and Director of the International Adoptee Clinic at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases.Dr. Tan received her medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. She completed her reside...
Professor, Preventive Medicine (Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention), Pediatrics
Lifang Hou, MD, MS, PhD is a Professor of Preventive Medicine. With a multidisciplinary background in medicine, basic science, and epidemiology, Dr. Hou’s research interest lies in integrating traditional epidemiologic methods with the ever-advancing molecular techniques in multi-disciplinary research focusing on identifying key molecular markers and understanding their potential impact on disease etiology, detection, and prevention. Dr. Hou’s major research efforts to date have focused on two areas: 1) identification of risk factors that may cause chronic diseases; and 2) identification of bi...
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Debora Matossian, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Feinberg School of Medicine and nephrology attending physician at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. Dr. Matossian has completed her pediatric nephrology training at Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago (now Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital) and concomitantly received a Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation at Northwestern University. Dr. Matossian is the fellowship program director at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital and has served as a mentor to a number of trainees; medical st...
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)
I am interested in the intersection between education and clinical care, and how we can optimize education for our front line providers and patients as clinical best practices continue to evolve. I have ongoing projects in the areas of readmission reduction, discharge process improvement, and health disparities for patients with Limited English Proficiency or preferred language other than English. I serve as Program Director for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship, and the Rotation Leader for the Hospital Based Medicine elective for pediatric residents. I am also a Physician Advisor, ...
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Dr. Bilaver is an applied health services researcher with expertise using administrative data for research purposes. Her research focuses on children with special health care needs including autism spectrum disorder and food allergy. As a team scientist, she collaborates with pediatricians, allergists, and informaticists using observational and interventional study designs for causal inference. She focuses on timely issues in pediatric health services research that have policy implications.
Professor, Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition), Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science)
My primary research interest is in health outcomes following pediatric liver transplantation and acute liver failure. I lead a research group that studies all aspects of outcomes from survival to health related quality of life (HRQOL). Our research group has extensive experience examining HRQOL and cognitive outcomes in pediatric liver transplant survivors, long term complications related to immunosuppressive medications and the causes and treatment of acute liver failure. Our group has also actively involved in new trials of immunosuppression withdrawal in liver transplant recipients. I am...
Professor, Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine), Medical Education
Dr. Trainor is Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Division of Emergency Medicine. She is Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Pediatrics and oversees activities across the educational spectrum from medical student to residency and fellowship programs within the Department of Pediatrics. She is a pediatric emergency physician with special expertise in pediatric acute care simulation-based instruction and debriefing and is a member of the kidSTAR Medical Education training program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Chil...
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