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NIH Funded Faculty

The following faculty hold a primary appointment within a UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics division, and are funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.
 

Critical Care (PICU)

Madhuradhar Chegondi, MBBS, MD (Co-I)
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Sarah Haskell, DO (PI)
Division Director, Critical Care
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Elizabeth Newell, MD (PI)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Kari Wellnitz, MD (Co-I)
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Amy Conrad, PhD (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Sarah Ferri, PhD (PI)
Assistant Professor

Kelly Schieltz, PhD (Co-I)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Lane Strathearn, MBBS, PhD, FRACP (PI)
Division Director, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics

Endocrinology and Diabetes

Katie Larson-Ode, MD, MS (Co-I)
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

Andrew Norris, MD, PhD (PI)
Division Director, Endocrinology and Diabetes
Professor of Pediatrics

Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Pancreatology, and Nutrition

Aliye Uc, MD (PI)
Division Director, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Pancreatology, and Nutrition
Professor of Pediatrics

Hematology-Oncology

David Dickens, MD (Co-I)
Division Director, Hematology-Oncology
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

David Gordon, MD, PhD (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

M. Sue O'Dorisio, MD, PhD (PI)
Professor of Pediatrics

Janice Staber, MD (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Infectious Disease

Sarah Beattie, PhD (PI)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

J. Muse Davis, MD, PhD (PI)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Charles Grose, MD (PI)
Professor of Pediatrics

Damian Krysan, MD, PhD (PI)
Division Director, Infectious Disease
Professor of Pediatrics

Medical Genetics and Genomics

John Bernat, MD, PhD (Co-I)
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Benjamin Darbro, MD, PhD (Co-I)
 

Val Sheffield, MD, PhD (PI)
Professor of Pediatrics

Neonatology (NICU)

Edward Bell, MD (PI)
Professor of Pediatrics

Jennifer Bermick, MD (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

John Dagle, MD, PhD (PI)
Professor of Pediatrics

Danielle Rios, MD, MS (PI)
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation

Lyndsay Harshman, MD, MS (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Carla Nester, MD, MSA, FASN (PI)
Division Director, Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Neurology

Alexander Bassuk, MD, PhD (PI)
Chair, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics

Aaron Boes, MD, PhD (PI)
Division Director, Child Neurology
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Joseph Glykys, MD, PhD (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Katherine Mathews, MD (Co-I)
Vice Chair, Clinical Research
Professor of Pediatrics

Pulmonary Medicine

Anthony Fischer, MD, PhD (Co-I)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Christoph Randak, MD (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Patrick Sinn, PhD (PI)
Professor of Pediatrics

Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology

Polly Ferguson, MD (Co-I)
Executive Vice Chair
Division Director, Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology
Professor of Pediatrics

Scott Lieberman, MD, PhD (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics