Department of Pediatrics Clinical Sections
Introduction
Please click on a clinical section below to learn more and meet the faculty.
Pediatrics Faculty Divisions
Cardiology
Cecilia Albaro
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
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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 Clinical Pediatrics
Sunita Ferns
Visiting Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Frank Han
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Ty Hasselman
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Cardiology)
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Marc D. Knepp
Section Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
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)
Jennifer Cunningham
Nurse Practitioner
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Andrew Morgan
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Child Development)
Siraj Siddiqi
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Child Development)
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Lauren Wiseman
Nurse Practitioner (Child Development)
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Amy Zimmerman
Clinical Associate (Child Development)
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Child Psychiatry
Lourdes Delgado-Serrano
Section Chief/ Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry (Child Psychiatry)
Samantha Reliford
Nurse Practitioner (Child Psychiatry)
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Critical Care
Madhuradhar Chegondi
Section Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Girish Deshpande
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Jonathan A. Gehlbach
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
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 Director
Pavana Sreenivasan
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program Associate Director
Michael Wayne Stevens
Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program Associate Director
Prachi Syngal
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Sandeep Tripathi
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Endocrinology
Valeria Benavides
Section Chief / Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
Sarah Dominique
Clinical Associate
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Mark D. Miller
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
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Samantha Robbins
Clinical Associate
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Michael Yuri Torchinsky
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
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Gastroenterology
Farhat Ashai-Khan
Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
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Ian Kang
Section Chief/ Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
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Muhammad Rehan Khan
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Gastroenterology)
Riad Rahhal
Section Chief/Visiting Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
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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)
Healthy Kids U
Tiffany Abrego
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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Amy Christison
Assistant Residency Program Director (Scholarly Work and Research)
Rebecca Saunders
Nurse Practitioner (Healthy Kids U)
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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 (CT)
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
Praveen Kumar
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Denita Lindsey
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Kamlesh Macwan
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Susan Ramiro
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neonatology)
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 H. Chand
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Vimal Master Sanker Raj
Section Chief/ Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Diana Warnecke
Nurse Practitioner (Nephrology)
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Neurology
Nadir Khan
Section Chief/Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Neurology)
Brian Woodruff
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Ophthalmology
Osama Al Deyabat
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Ophthalmology)
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Rujuta Gore
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Ophthalmology)
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Steven Lichtenstein
Section Chief/ Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics (Ophthalmology)
Jean Vahey
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Ophthalmology)
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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
Nurse Practitioner
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Anjeli Stevens
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (University Pediatrics Teaching Faculty)
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Pulmonary Medicine
Robert Lucia
Clinical Assistant Professor (Pulmonary Medicine)
Amanda Miklavcic
Nurse Practitioner
Harry C. Yuan
Section Chief / Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Peds (Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy and Sleep Medicine)
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
Brooke Baldi
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Madison Meder-McCaffrey
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Penelope Sandiford
Section Chief, Pediatric Supportive Care