Department of Pediatrics Clinical Sections
Please click on a clinical section below to learn more and meet the faculty.
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Cardiology
Cecilia Albaro
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
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William Albers
Professor Emeritus (Cardiology)
Ernerio Alboliras
Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
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Soujanya Bogarapu
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
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Matthew Bramlet
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (CT)
Sunita Ferns
Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
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Frank Han
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Ty Hasselman
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
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Marc D. Knepp
Subspecialist Faculty
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Natasha Noel
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Priti Patel
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Kristi Ryan
Faculty
Child Abuse Pediatrics
Shilpa Hari
Child Abuse Pediatrician
Channing Smith Petrak
Medical Director
Claudia Plumer
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Carrie Watt
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Child Development
Wendelin A Burdo-Hartman
Section Chief/ Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Child Development)
Andrew Morgan
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Child Development)
Siraj Siddiqi
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Child Development)
Amy Zimmerman
Pediatric Nurse Specialist (Child Development)
Child Psychiatry
Lourdes Delgado-Serrano
Section Chief/ Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry (Child Psychiatry)
Critical Care
Madhuradhar Chegondi
Section Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Girish Deshpande
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Jonathan A. Gehlbach
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program Director; Medical Director of Pediatric Critical Care
Ryan Hurtado
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Agnieszka Kulikowska
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (CT) (Critical Care)
Edmundo Martinez
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program Associate Director
Meghana Nadiger
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Pavana Sreenivasan
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Michael Stevens
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Prachi Syngal
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Sandeep Tripathi
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Billy C. Wang
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Endocrinology
Valeria Benavides Lopez
Section Chief/ Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
Sarah Dominique
Clinical Associate
Mark D. Miller
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
Samantha Robbins
Clinical Associate
Michael Torchinsky
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
Gastroenterology
Farhat Ashai-Khan
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
Ian Kang
Section Chief/ Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
Muhammad Rehan Khan
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
Manu R. Sood
Professor, Head and William H. Albers Endowed Chair in Pediatrics
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Imdad Ullah
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
Mohammad Yaseen
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
Genetics
Lauren Bell
Nurse Practitioner (Genetics)
Jennifer Burton
Genetics Counselor (Genetics)
Philip Giampietro
Faculty
Christine Horne
Nurse Practitioner
Jillian Uhlman
Genetics Counselor (Genetics)
Gynecology
Bindu Patel
Pediatric/Adolescent Gynecologist
Healthy Kids U
Tiffany Abrego
Clinical Associate Professor (Healthy Kids U)
Amy Christison
Assistant Residency Program Director (Scholarly Work and Research)
Rebecca Saunders
Nurse Practitioner (Healthy Kids U)
Hematology/Oncology
Susan Gaitros
Nurse Practitioner (Hematology/Oncology)
Prerna Kumar
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology)
Jennifer Light
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology)
Brinda Mehta
Section Chief/ Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology)
Margaret Nagel
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology)
Jonathan Roberts
Associate Professor (CT), Pediatrics
Mary Beth Ross
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology)
Kay Saving
Professor of Pediatrics (CT) (Hematology/Oncology)
Diana Simmons
Nurse Practitioner (Hematology/Oncology)
Beth Speckhart
Clinical Associate (Hematology/Oncology)
Dana Stephens
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (Hematology/Oncology)
Michael Tarantino
Director/ Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology)
Hospitalists
Amira Alfil
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
Michele Beekman
Associate Residency Program Director
Trina Croland
Medical Director of Quality & Safety for Children's Hospital of Illinois and the Department of Pediatrics
Adam Cross
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
Jessica Ford-Davis
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
William Frese
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
Keith Hanson
Section Chief Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Umair Iqbal
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
Monica Joseph-Griffin
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
Bhavana Kandikattu
Residency Program Director
Harleena Kendhari
Fellowship Director
Mohamed Khalifa
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
Rawan Musaitif
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
Shane Rainey
Clinical Assistant Professor
Nadia Shaikh
Associate Fellowship Director
Patricia Tran
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hospitalists)
Infectious Disease
Mustafa Bakir
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Infectious Disease)
Peoria
Juanita Aguila-Corrales
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Aaron Delgado
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
M. Jawad Javed
Neonatology Fellowship Program Director; Neonatology Section Chief/Medical Director
Gretchen Kopec
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Praveen Kumar
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Kamlesh Macwan
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Susan Ramiro
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Nicole Rau
Associate Residency Program Director
Kristopher Rosburg
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Shoji Samson
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Mehwish Sheikh
Neonatal Perinatal Fellowship Assistant Program Director
Bloomington
Wajed Haddad
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Joyce Turley
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Urbana/Danville
Ismail Abbasi
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Imran Malik
Medical Director; Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Aarti Raut
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Nephrology
Deepa Chand
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Vimal Master Sanker Raj
Section Chief/ Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Diana Warnecke
Nurse Practitioner (Nephrology)
Neurology
Nadir Khan
Section Chief/ Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neurology)
Kathrine Sunstedt
Nurse Practitioner (Neurology)
Primary Care
Umesh Chatrath
Clinical Associate Professor
Marte Deppermann
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (University Pediatrics Teaching Faculty)
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Jalayne Lapke
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (University Pediatrics Teaching Faculty)
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Heather McLauchlan
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (University Pediatrics Teaching Faculty)
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Kristine Papis
Adjunct Assistant Professor
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Anjeli Stevens
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (University Pediatrics Teaching Faculty)
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Pulmonary Medicine
Kenneth Arnett
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy and Sleep Medicine)
Jeffrey Benson
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy and Sleep Medicine)
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Robert Lucia
Clinical Assistant Professor (Pulmonary Medicine)
Amanda Miklavcic
Nurse Practitioner
Research Services
Nicole Bohnker
Senior Research Specialist (Research Services)
Manu Gnanamony
Research Assistant Professor (Research Services)
Sara (Warfield) Kelly
Research Assistant Professor
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Monica Lombardo
Research Specialist (Research Services)
Hien Nguyen
Research Specialist
Maria Thomas
Research Specialist (Research Services)
Supportive Care
Penelope Sandiford
Section Chief, Pediatric Supportive Care