Pediatric Residency faculty
Caring for patients alongside residents at Advocate Children's Hospital - Oak Lawn are academic clinicians who are among the most highly regarded and accomplished physicians in Chicago, representing the full spectrum of pediatric subspecialties. They have been recruited from major teaching institutions throughout the country to a medical center with a vision of growth, quality health care, the opportunity for teaching and scholarly activity, and altruism.
Program leadership:
Kent Nelson, MD
- Specialty:
- General Pediatrics and Academic Medicine
- Title:
- Program Director
- Additional Information:
(he/him/his)
MD: University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine
Residency in Pediatrics: Advocate Christ Medical Center
Academic Interests/Projects: Information Technology in Student and Resident Education, Continuing Medical Education
Ashley Colberg Sabo
- Specialty:
- General Pediatrics and Academic Medicine
- Title:
- Associate Program Director
- Additional Information:
(she/her/hers)
MD: Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Residency in Pediatrics: Advocate Christ Medical Center/Advocate Children's Hospital-Oak Lawn
Academic Interests: Breastfeeding Medicine, Primary Care Education and Quality Improvement, and Mental Health Diagnosis/Treatment
Alison Hornyak, DO
- Specialty:
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- Title:
- Associate Program Director
- Additional Information:
(she/her/hers)
DO: Midwestern University - Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency in Pediatrics: Advocate Christ Medical Center/Advocate Children's Hospital-Park Ridge
Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases: University of Michigan - C. S. Mott Children's Hospital
Academic Interests: Primary immunodeficiency, infections in immunocompromised hosts, travel medicine, antibiotic stewardship, medical education, boards preparedness, residency success with mental and physical health challenges
Sofia Padilla, MD
- Specialty:
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Title:
- Assistant Program Director
- Additional Information:
(she/her/hers)
MD: University of Illinois Chicago
Residency in Pediatrics: Advocate Children's Hospital-Oak Lawn
Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care: Comer Children’s Hospital
Academic Interests: Clinical quality improvement with a focus on PICU care initiatives; resident education and curriculum development. Currently working on revamping PICU initiatives to improve care of critically ill children. I also lead the pediatric stroke protocol for the Oak Lawn campus. Current curriculum development includes an access and opportunity lecture series for residents.
Pediatric clinic attendings
- Specialty:
- General Pediatrics and Academic Medicine
- Additional Information:
(she/her/hers)
MD: University of Illinois School of Medicine
Residency in Pediatrics: University of Chicago
Academic Interests: General Pediatrics and Preventative Medicine, Resident Education
- Specialty:
- General Pediatrics and Academic Medicine
- Additional Information:
(he/him/his)
MD: LSU School of Medicine - New Orleans
Residency: University of Chicago
Academic Interests: General Pediatrics, Resident Education, and Childhood Obesity
- Specialty:
- General Pediatric and Academics Medicine
- Additional Information:
(she/her/hers)
DO: Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine/Midwestern University
Residency in Pediatrics: Advocate Christ Medical Center/Advocate Children’s Hospital-Oak Lawn
Fellowship: General Academic Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center
Academic Interests/Projects: Literacy, Early childhood education, Health equity, Medical Education, Advocacy
Chief Medical Officer, Advocate Children’s Hospital
Mark M. Butterly, MD
- Specialty:
- General Pediatrics and Academic Medicine Division Head
- Title:
- Chief Medical Officer, Advocate Children's Hospital, Advocate Health, IL Division
- Additional Information:
(he/him/his)
MD: Loyola University
Residency in Pediatrics: Advocate Christ Medical Center
Academic Interests: Developmental Screening, Healthy Steps and Primary Care, Service Recovery, and Patient Satisfaction.
Pediatric hospitalists
- Title:
- Program Director
- Email:
- steven.marek@aah.org
- Additional Information:
- Steve Marek obtained his medical degree from Rosalind Franklin University’s Chicago Medical School. He completed his pediatric residency training at Johns Hopkins University and a pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at Children’s National Hospital. He has been practicing as a hospitalist at Advocate Children’s Hospital since 2017.
Hospital-based faculty
Adolescent Psychiatry
Jyotsna Kilani, MD
Adolescent Medicine
Cathy Joyce, MD
Alexandria Holliday, MD
Huma Khan, MD
Allergy/Immunology
Javeed Akhter, MD
Cardiology
Rupali Gandhi, MD
Tarek Husayni, MD
Alex Javois, MD
Rohit Loomba, MD
Sunthorn Muangmingsuk, MD
Melissa Nater, MD
Dhaval Patel, MD
David Roberson, MD
Eleanor Ross, MD
Ira Shetty, MD
Andrew VanBergen, MD
Joshua Wong, MD
Frank Zimmerman, MD
Cardiovascular Surgery
Chawki El-Zein, MD
Child Protective Services and Abuse
Emily Sifferman, MD
Kimberly Souder, APN
Critical Care
Enrique Cifuentes, MD
Enzo Garcia, MD
Emily Dawson, MD
Ira Horowitz, MD
Ronald Kampanatkosol, DO
Travis Matics, MD
Sofia Padilla, MD
Molly Phillips, DO
Kara VonZychlin, MD
Kathleen Webster, MD
Developmental Pediatrics
Lauren Lindle, MD
Endocrinology
Brett Barrett, DO
Maria Salguero Bermonth, MD
Ola Kawadry, MD
Vidhya Viswanathan, MD
Gastroenterology
Mohammed Kabany, MD
Rajeev Nagpal, MD
Tiffany Patton, MD
Christopher Smith, MD
Genetics/Metabolism
Edith Chernoff, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Jason Canner, DO
Victoria Huff, APN
Lauren Kriedemann, APN
Ricarchito Manera, MD
Rebecca McFall, MD
Marie-Ellen Sarvida, MD
Meagen Weiss, APN
Infectious Disease
Alison Horynak, DO
Emily Keller, MD
Michael Tekippe, MD
Neonatology
Mohammad Alattar, MD
Ousama Dallal, MD
April Jones, MD
Richard Kampanatkosol, DO
Serguei Kishkurno, MD
Syed Khalil, MD
Kirsten Sorum, DO
Alexandra Wilson, MD
Nephrology
Issa Alhamoud, MD
Neurology
Usha Appalaneni, MD
Ryan Coates, MD
Ammar Katerji, MD
Aliesje Sorgeloos, MD
Neurosurgery
Dimitrios Nikas, MD
Ophthalmology
Javaneh Abbasian, MD
Patricia Davis, MD
Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery
Terrance Wall, MD
Orthopedics
David Fralinger, MD
Prasad Gourineni, MD
Glenn Reinhart, MD
Otolaryngolgoy/ENT
Rebecca Compton, MD
Jonathan Sherman, MD
Pain and Sedation
Kristi Waddel, APN
Kim Whitmeyer, APN
Palliative Care
Rani Ganesan, MD
Meggan Mikal, APN
Marcy Pluchar, APN
Pediatric Emergency Room
Michael Chan, MD
Madhuri Dave, DO
Sarah Herron, DO
Adina Hoover, MD
Adam Hutnik, MD
Tim Ketterhagen, MD
Jennifer McCarthy, MD
Lucas McWilliams, MD
Nina Mbadiwe, MD
Nina Muhammad, DO
Amanda Mulcrone, MD
William Schroeder, DO
Shannon Staley, MD
Pediatric Dentistry
Janice Lubas, DDS
Pediatric Psychiatry
Khadija Khan, MD
Jyotsna Kilani, MD
Pediatric Surgery
Manish Raiji, MD
Carmelle Romain, MD
Kathryn Rowland, MD
Plastic/Reconstructive Surgery
Carmelle Romain, MD
John Smetona, MD
Pulmonology
Javeed Akhter, MD
Shimoni Dharia, MD
Radiology
Marina Doliner, MD
Joshua Finkle, MD
Thang Ngo, MD
Rheumatology
Joseph McDonald, MD
Melissa Tesher, MD
Telemedicine
Kathleen Webster, MD
Urology
Mark Faasse, MD
Monica Velasquez, MD