Department of Pediatrics

As a clinical educator, my goals are to combine my clinical interests in general pediatric cardiology with more specialized clinical expertise in echocardiography and exercise medicine as well as fellow education.

My primary research interest is in lung repair after acute injury with a focus on TGF-beta mediated signaling. We have identified mitochondrial generated reactive oxygen species as important in TGF-bête mediated gene expression and are working to identify novel therapeutic targets in this pathway. We are also interested in modulating the ubiquitin-proteosomal pathway as a therapeutic target for tissue fibrosis. I have a clinical translational interest in Cystic Fibrosis. I am the site co-PI for the CF Foundation sponsored clinical trial network, The Therapeutic Development Network. I am also ...

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.

After having served on the faculty at both Duke and UNC, Dr. Jhaveri joined the faculty at Lurie/FSM in October 2018. He currently serves as Division Head for Pediatric Infectious Diseases.Dr. Jhaveri is active in leadership of several infectious diseases society at the national level. From 2015-2019, he served as a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Board of Directors. He is the current Chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Leadership Institute subcommittee and past-Chair of the IDSA Standards, Practice and Guidelines Committee. He is a member of the AASLD-IDSA ...

Dr. Ewen is a neurodevelopmental physician experienced in the care of children with developmental, cognitive/academic and behavioral challenges, particularly those caused by neurological conditions. He graduated from Brown University with an A.B. in Egyptology and earned his M.D. from Tulane University School of Medicine. Following General Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, he was a member of the first subspecialty training program nationally that merged developmental pediatrics with child neurology at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He had a further fellowship...

Dr. Edward "Teddy" Jones is a Pediatric and Genetic Cardiologist who specializes in Cardiovascular Genetics. He focuses his care on children with genetically-mediated structural heart disease and aortopathies. Dr. Jones completed his Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology training at Texas Children's Hospital / Baylor College of Medicine, where he was chief pediatrics resident and chief cardiology fellow. He also completed additional dedicated training in Cardiovascular Genetics at Texas Children's Hospital. Prior to his medical training, Dr. Jones was a 2nd grade teacher. Dr. Jones is involved i...

Children's Research Fund Endowed Professor in Neurobiology Mitochondrial and RNA methylation mechanisms regulating neural developement and degeneration 

Dr. Gertler completed her undergraduate degree in molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton University, her medical school degree at Northwestern University Feinberg school of medicine, her graduate degree studying neuromodulation in altered dopamingeric states in the basal ganglia at Northwestern University in the lab of Dr. D. James Surmeier, and her pediatrics/child neurology residency at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago.