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A recent ribbon-cutting for 55th & Pulaski Health Collaborative both celebrated the clinic’s opening and marked another important milestone in Ul Health’s growing clinical footprint and service area.

The Department of Pediatrics will participate in Festival del Nino at 11 am on 6.11.22 at the National Museum of Mexican Art (1852 West 19^th Street). For details, please contact Dr. Jaye Schreier at schrejr@uic.edu.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) has announced the recipients of the UIC Awards for Creative Activity Program, including a project by Dr. Lewis Hsu entitled “Walk in my SHOES (Sickle cell Health Outcomes Education Skits).”

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Meghan Harding, DO, was interviewed by ABC-7 on 1.24.22 regarding her treatment of a 7-year-old PICU patient who nearly died from Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome…

The pandemic is having an impact on medical care beyond COVID-19, and UI Health General Practitioner Michelle Barnes, MD, was interviewed on 2.1.22. Her comments on the 21st Show, which airs on NPR member stations in Illinois…

Cook County Health and UI Health — the leading public health care providers in Cook County and Illinois — will collaborate on specialty pediatric services under the Partnership for Pediatric Care, a new clinical affiliation for shared services.

An article published in JAMA Network Open highlights the positive effect of a web-based depression prevention intervention developed and studied by Dr. Benjamin Van Voorhees and colleagues.

Dr. James Ronayne and colleagues develop one-of-a-kind rotation for medical residents and public health students bridging practice and policy

Dr. Jon Klein talked with the WBEZ Morning Shift on November 28th about a new study which revealed that parents and children/teens mostly agree on the importance of teens having private doctor visits.

13 Department of Pediatrics Providers are recognized as Top Doctors by Castle Connolly and/or Chicago magazine. Overall, 101 UI Health Providers were listed.

Dr. Kristin Berg was interviewed regarding the PCORI funded study (BEhavioral Health Stratified Treatment to Optimize Transition to Adulthood for Youth with IDD) that partners three UI Health organizations…

Dr. James Antoon and colleagues are the first to conduct large-scale analysis of treatments and outcomes for children with Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN)

More than 300 people – kids living with and survivors of pediatric cancer or sickle cell disease and their families – celebrated the holidays with our Pediatric Hematology/Oncology team.

Children’s Hospital University of Illinois and UI Health celebrated Halloween by hosting a party and parade for pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients and families.

Children’s Hospital University of Illinois and the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology raise $7K for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to support cancer research.

The UI Health/Rush/Stroger Children’s Oncology Group, led by Dr. Mary Lou Schmidt, has received a $150,000 infrastructure grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

Coordinated Healthcare for Complex Kids (CHECK) program has been approved by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services as an Integrated Health Home (IHH)

Our general pediatrics ward recently celebrated five years without a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), a major patient safety milestone. Children’s Hospitals Today interviewed Dr. Andrew Kreppel about our efforts and progress.

Dr. Benjamin Van Voorhees and colleagues awarded $7 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop an adolescent depression prevention programs

Dr. Eunice John, who was the Chief of Pediatric Nephrology and Medical Director of Pediatric Transplant, retired in December after 42 years of service at UIC

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