Department of Pediatrics
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Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and Preventive Medicine
Dr. Pierce’s research interest focuses primarily on injuries in children with an emphasis on differentiating abusive from accidental trauma. Dr Pierce collaborates with a multi-disciplinary lab with emphasis on injury biomechanics. This lab combines the expertise of medicine and engineering and utilizes both a clinical and an experimental approach. Dr. Pierce’s research focus is the development of injury plausibility models, including clinical decision rules, for differentiating abusive and accidental trauma in the young child that combines medical, social, biologic, and engineering knowledge....
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Child Abuse)
Dr. Rosado obtained his MD from Escuela Mexicana de Medicina, Universidad La Salle, and subsequently completed his residency in pediatrics at Sinai Children’s Hospital here in Chicago, where he also served as chief resident and then as Medical Director of Child Protective Services. He is board-certified in general pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics.
Before coming to Lurie Children’s in 2014, Dr. Rosado was on faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at Rush Medical College. During that time, he also served as an attending physician in the Division of Child Protective Services at the John H...
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Rheumatology)
Dr. De Ranieri’s clinical interests are diverse. She sees children with a broad range of systemic autoimmune diseases, such as childhood lupus, dermatomyositis, periodic fevers, juvenile arthritis, and vasculitis. Dr. De Ranieri uses Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSK US) in her practice to help accurately diagnose, monitor and treat (via guided intervention) joint and tendon disease in children with JIA. She has served on the Examination Development Committee for the Rheumatology MSK US Certification Exam, and she has taught both beginning and advanced musculoskeletal ultrasound courses at nati...
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)
Dr. Spewak is a hospital pediatrician and director of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Educational Support Program and co-director of the Lurie Children's-McGaw Medical Center Medical Education Elective. He is a member of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and a member of the Lurie Children's Pediatric Advocacy Advisory Board.
His clinical and academic interests include caring for hospitalized children before, during, and after hospitalization; children with medical complexity; and diagnostic medicine; me...
Professor of Pediatrics (Palliative Care)
I have an enduring interest in medical ethics, especially ethical issues in pediatrics, end-of-life care, research on human subjects, transplantation, children with differences of sex development (DSD) and gender identify nonconformity (GIN), medical and surgical innovation, transplantation and conscientious objection to requested care by health care professionals. My main clinical interests are in pediatric palliative and hospice care, multidisciplinary care of children with DSD/GIN and parent support for difficult decisions under conditions of uncertainty. More recently I have developed inte...
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Mahima Keswani, MD, is a Board Certified Pediatric Nephrologist and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of Dialysis for the Division of Nephrology. She received her B.A. in Biology from Rutgers University, and her M.D. degree from the Rutgers School of BIomedical and Health Sciences (formerly University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey). Dr. Keswani completed her residency in Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC and her fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, MA.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)
I was raised and attended high school in Boulder, Colorado. I studied economics and Spanish at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana until 2004, where I played on the tennis team and played piano in the jazz ensembles. I served in the Peace Corps in El Salvador with the Rural Health and Sanitation Program from 2006-08. I earned an MD/MPH from the University of Colorado, and completed residency in pediatrics from the University of Chicago in 2016.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition)
My clinical inteterest is pediatric inflammatory bowel disease, focusing on dietary therapy for control of inflammation in Crohn's disease and the influence of the gut microbiome on childhood health. Additionally, I am focused on a deeper understanding of surgical outcomes in children with ulcerative colitis and improving disease surveillance after surgery.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)
Dr. Foster is a primary care pediatrician with a career interest in health care delivery innovation for children with medical complexity and technology dependence. She received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and medical doctorate from Harvard University. She received her health services research fellowship training from the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital after a year as chief pediatric resident. As a physician-investigator, she develops evidence-based health care interventions for children with medical complexity (i.e., multiple co-morbidities, tech...
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care) and Medical Education
My primary interest is in the career advising of medical students.
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