Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Heffernan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Director of the Voices of Child Health in Communities, and the Scientific Director for Quantitative Science at the Smith Child Health Catalyst at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She oversees the Voices of Child Health in Communities Parent Panel Survey, a biannual survey that assesses parent and family perspectives on issues related to child, adolescent, and family health and well-being. Data from the survey are disseminated in academic publi...

I am an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician in Cardiology at Lurie Children’s Hospital. I completed my general pediatric training at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. I completed my clinical cardiology training at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University Medical Center, followed by completion of non-invasive cardiac imaging training.

My primary interest is intestinal failure and transplantation. Children with intestinal failure are living longer with transplant free survival given advances in intestinal rehabilitation. My center has participated in the pediatric short bowel syndrome trials using teduglutide. This trial was instrumental in allowing teduglutide to be FDA approved in children. There are patients who are unable to be tapered from TPN and will undergo intestinal transplantation. This is also a fragile population that require special expertise with regard to the nutrition and immunosuppression.

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.

Dr. Hamvas has a longstanding interest in genetic contributions to lung diseases that affect newborns, children and adults, he has combined his clinical interests in the care of newborn respiratory diseases with an integrated investigative program to understand the modifiable factors that influence outcomes of newborns.

As a clinician, researcher, and entrepreneur, my primary mission is to improve care through better patient-doctor engagement. My clinical interest is the care of children with complex motility and disorders of gut brain interaction (DGBI) taking a multidisciplinary team approach.  Complex patients require more time to fully understand the interaction and relationship of all their symptoms. In order to “connect the dots” to a diagnosis and treatment, you first need to have all the dots!  Towards that end, my translational research and entrepreneurial goals focus on developing effective digital ...

Dr. Kenny D. Kronforst earned her Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and her Master of Public Health from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. She then obtained her MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2006. Following her intern year in Pediatrics at the same institution, she relocated to Boston in 2007 and joined the prestigious Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics. Upon successfully completing this residency, Dr. Kronforst continued her training at the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Training Program in the Division of Newborn Medicine...

Anisha Kshetrapal is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) in the Department of Pediatrics of the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a pediatric emergency physician and medical education researcher with research expertise in the use of qualitative methodologies to study entrustment and other phenomena. Dr. Kshetrapal is Associate Director of the kidSTAR Simulation and Resuscitation Training Center at Lurie Children's and co-directs the Teaching Selective at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Kshetrapal has exp...

Dr. Florin is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is Associate Division Head for Academic Affairs & Research for the Division of Emergency Medicine at Lurie. Dr. Florin is a nationally recognized expert in the field of respiratory infectious diseases in the acute care setting. He is currently PI of an R01 from NHLBI to develop and validate a pediatric pneumonia risk score across 14 pediatric emergency departments, in addition to a $12 million cont...

As a hospital-based pediatrician, Dr. Wicks works at both Lurie Children's Hospital and Prentice Women's Hospital with clinical areas of focus including management of critically ill newborns in the Neonatal ICU. Dr. Wicks' interests also include clinical education of medical students and residents.