Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Kim is a pediatric hospitalist at Lurie Children's. Her clinical interests include general pediatric patients including care of hospitalized children, care coordination, and sedation services.

Dr. Davis was an aspiring veterinarian starting from early childhood. Halfway through her undergraduate studies in Animal Science, she shifted her career goals to merge a large animal livestock background with another topic that always fascinated her: genetics. This took her to Belgium to study sheep genetics under the mentorship of Michel Georges to investigate the molecular basis of the ovine callipyge locus. After obtaining her PhD, Dr. Davis returned stateside to continue as an academic researcher, but to apply her skillset toward understanding the genetic architecture of a different speci...

Dr. Chadwick is the Susan B. DePree Founders' Board Professor in Pediatric Adolescent and Maternal HIV Infection and Director of the Section of Pediatric, Adolescent and Maternal HIV Infection and attending physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She is Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. She joined the Northwestern faculty in 1985 after completing her pediatric residency and fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children's Memorial Hospital at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University.

Mehul V. Raval, MD, MS grew up in a small town in North Carolina and from a young age was mesmerized by science and medicine. Dr. Raval completed his undergraduate studies as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his medical education at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. During medical school, he participated in a one-year Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. Dr. Raval trained in General Surgery at Northwestern University.  During this time he completed a 2-year Clinical Schoalrs Progfram at the American College of Surgeons in Chicago, IL and earned a Masters of Scie...

Uchenna Ewulonu is a pediatrician in the department of Pediatrics, Hospital-Based Medicine. She works at both Lurie Children's Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital and Central Dupage Hospital. She enjoys caring for children of all ages, from neonates to adolescents.

I completed my BA in Biology from Williams College in 2005. Afterwards, I worked in a neurobiology lab at Harvard University as a research assistant. I then completed my MD from Drexel University College of Medicine in 2012. I then completed my pediatrics residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 2015. There I began my research interest in acute kidney injury (AKI). I continued developing my interset in AKI during my critical care fellowship at Children's Hospital Colorado and graduated in 2018. I now work as a faculty member in the pediatric critical care department at Ann...

As a pediatric hepatologist, I care for children with liver diseases, including those who may need a liver transplant. We have a great team who work hard to provide reassurance and care for both patients and their families during the stress of a critical illness, and I am exteremely proud to work with them.I enjoy the long term relationships that have developed with many of my patients and their families and am grateful to be a part of their lives.

I am a pediatric emergency physician and health services researcher with interests in improving care delivery at the intersection of the emergency department, office, and hospital and optimizing healthcare decisions made by parents and providers. I co-lead the research efforts in the Telehealth Program at Lurie Children’s and am involved in the Lurie Children’s Health Partners Clinically Integrated Network’s efforts to reduce emergency department visits.I completed a combined pediatric emergency medicine and pediatric health services research fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2009. I...

My interests are focused on diagnosis and treatment of children with Gastrointestinal and Liver disease. Specifically, I focus on gastrointestinal endoscopy, both for diagnostic purposes but also for new modalities of therapy and diagnostics including treatment of GI bleeding, complex polyposis syndromes, Gastrointestinal Strictures, treatment of Portal Hypertension, capsule endoscopy, Single Balloon Enteroscopy and new techniques such as Trans-nasal Endoscopy. I have an interest in cholestatic liver disease and participate in the Childhood Liver Disease Research and Education Network (CHiLD...

Dr Perez's research interest is in neonatal pulmonary development, pulmonary hypertension and glucocorticoid signaling. Specifically, Dr Perez's research focuses on the impact of hydrocortisone, a glucocorticoid commonly used in the NICU, on alveolar and pulmonary vascular development as well as effects of glucocorticoids on pulmonary vascular remodeling and nitric oxide signaling pathways.