Department of Pediatrics

My goal is to become an expert in supporting providers with the right data to make optimal clinical decisions for their patients. I believe that current data infrastructure does not support providers in making optimal clinical choices. Quality healthcare requires Quality data.

I enjoy general cardiology as well as caring for children with complex congenital heart disease. I am interested in outcomes after surgical repair/palliation, particularly as it pertains to cardiac function. I am also interested in quality improvement and improving patient/family experience in the clinical setting. My primary research interests involve cardiac imaging with echocardiography, 3 dimensional echocardiography and cardiac MRI. I am interested in anatomic, functional and quantitative analysis of the heart using 3-dimensional echo as well as strain imaging. I am also interested i...

As medical director for the Institute for Sports Medicine (ISM) at Lurie Children’s since 2004, I have extensive experience caring for children and adolescents with sports-related injuries. I have served as team physician for high school, college, elite, and professional teams. I am currently the team physician for DeLaSalle high school, Moody Bible Institute, North Side Youth Football League, and the USA Rhythmic Gymnastics team. I served on the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness (COSMF) for the past 11 years, and for the last 4 y...

I enjoy caring for children with disorders of growth, puberty and the adrenal, pituitary and thyroid gland. I also enjoy care of children with diabetes

I am a pediatric psychologist within the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and the Behavioral Health Director for the Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. I am also founding psychologist of Lurie Children's Gender & Sex Development Program. Clinically, I provide consultation, assessment, and therapeutic services to transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse youth and young adults and to youth and young adults with differences of sex development/intersex traits and their families. My rese...

Dr. Bercovitz is triple boarded in general pediatrics, pediatric hematology/oncology, and transfusion medicine.

I am a board certified pediatric gastroenterologist with advanced training in intestinal rehabilitation, hepatology and transplant, and my clinical activities are divided across these areas. I work with wonderful colleagues in the Lurie Intestinal Rehab and Transplant Program, who provide coordinated, multidisciplinary care to patients with short gut syndrome and associated disorders, including those that require bowel transplantation. In addition, I care for patients with liver disorders and liver transplant admitted to the hospital, and for patients with general GI disorders in both outpatie...

Karl Migally, MD is a pediatric cardiologist and cardiac intensivist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, an assistant professor of pediatrics, and the pediatric cardiac intensive care fellowship program director at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a member of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (FAME). His interests include trainee education and mentorship, curriculum development, and the use of advancements such as data visualization/analytics software (eg. Etiometry T3) and immersive technology (eg. augmented and virtual reality) to improv...

I am the Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. I lead efforts to promote judicious use of antibiotics and limit the emergence of antibiotic resistance. My clinical and research interests include antimicrobial stewardship, multi-drug resistant infections, and patient safety and quality.