Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Flais engages in clinical care of pediatric patients in the outpatient setting, medical student and graduate medical education, and authoring/editing parenting book titles with the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Mary E. Robbins received an B.S. degree in Biology from Wheeling Jesuit University and her M.D. at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She then completed both her General Pediatrics Residency and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital/The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. She joined the faculty here at Northwestern in August of 2014 following the completion of her clinical training. In addition to providing care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at both Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern Medicine's Prentice Wome...

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.

Dr. Plant is currently an attending physician in neuro-oncology at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine with a research focus on translational research and early clinical trial development for pediatric brain tumors. Currently, pediatric brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related death in childhood now surpassing leukemia, the most common pediatric cancer. Many children diagnosed with malignant brain tumors face a dismal prognosis at diagnosis with minimal effective treatments available. ...

I joined the department of pediatrics, division of Emergency Medicine in 2013 and since that time I Ihave been clinically active seeing patients at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago's Emergency Care Center as well seeing patients at both of the satelite pediatric EDs.  I devote time to other projects outside of clinical care that are driven by his experiences in the ED.  Most of my projects outside my clinical responsibilities are based on a desire to provide more efficient, equitable, safer, and evidence based care to the patients I see in the ED.  I hope through work in qu...

Chrinic fatigue symdrome and chlamydia and adolescentimmunizations ,especially flu

As an attending pediatric cardiologist with specialty training in heart failure and heart transplantation, I take care of children with various forms of cardiac dysfunction whether it is due to congenital heart disease, Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, exposure to anthracycline or other cardiotoxic chemotherapeutic agents, or an underlying sarcomeric cardiomyopathy; and children who have undergone heart transplantation. My long term goals are to improve the lives of children and their families and improve the quality of care so that children will live the best life possible!  I feel that persona...

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.

Dr. Ann-Marie Tantoco is a med-peds hospitalist in Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.