Children's Memorial Hospital / Department of Pediatrics / Pediatrics Research

Department of Pediatrics Research

The Department of Pediatrics consists of seventeen individual divisions and six programs, spanning the breadth of subspecialties in Pediatric Medicine. The goals of the department are to provide thorough, broad-based education to our residents; cutting-edge, individualized care to our patients; and to carry out high-level basic and clinical research.

The department is strongly invested in continuing both basic and clinical research efforts to improve the health of children. You can view the broad range of clinical research being conducted in our divisions, see more of the work being conducted in our labs, or read more about the work being conducted at Children's Memorial Research Center. These multidisciplinary teams of physicians, scientists, technicians, nurses and trainees are committed to making discoveries that will improve the lives of children and their families.

The following links will provide you with information about the research efforts in each division, including division-wide research interests, grant support, honors and awards, publications and trainees supported by the divisions.

Please visit the Department of Pediatrics site for more information about research conducted by its physicians and scientists.

Allergy/Immunology
Jacqueline Pongracic, MD

Autonomic Medicine
Debra Weese-Mayer, MD

Cancer Biology and Epigenomics
Marcelo Bento Soares, PhD

Cardiology
Barbara Deal, MD

Clinical and Translational Research
Ram Yogev, MD

Critical Care
Michael Kelleher, MD, Interim head

Dermatology
Anthony J. Mancini, MD

Developmental Biology
Phillip M. Iannaccone, MD, PhD

Emergency Medicine
Steven Krug, MD

Endocrinology
Donald Zimmerman, MD

Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nutrition
Barry K. Wershil, MD

General Academic Pediatrics
Joel Frader, MD

Genetics/Birth Defects/Metabolism
Joel Charrow, MD

Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation
Morris Kletzel, MD, MBA

Hospital-based Medicine
Robin Steinhorn, MD, Interim head

Human Molecular Genetics
Ann Harris, PhD

Infectious Diseases
Stanford Shulman, MD

Kidney Diseases
Craig Langman, MD

Neonatology
Robin Steinhorn, MD

Neurobiology
Martha C. Bohn, PhD

Neurology
Leon Epstein, MD

Pulmonary Medicine
Susanna McColley, MD

Rheumatology
Marisa Klein-Gitelman, MD, MPH

Smith Child Health Research
Adam Becker, PhD and Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH, Interim directors