UChicago Medicine was awarded its 16th consecutive ‘A’ in hospital safety from The Leapfrog Group. We've earned sequential top marks since Leapfrog began producing its twice yearly survey in 2012.
- Lolita Alkureishi, MD, was named a winner of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Trust Practice Challenge.
- Lainie Ross, MD, PhD, has been elected to membership in the Society for Pediatric Research.
- Raoul L. Wolf, MD, was named a 2019 Top Doctor by Chicago magazine.
- As a national leader in clinical trials that led to FDA approval of the first oral immunotherapy treatment for peanut allergy in children and teens, Christina E. Ciaccio, MD, MSc, was tapped for her expertise by many media outlets, including NBC Nightly News, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg and Medscape.
- Christina E. Ciaccio, MD, MSc, was named secretary of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology’s Food Allergy and Eosinophilic Disorders Interest Section.
- Chicago magazine’s 2019 Top Chicago Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Doctors included eight UChicago pediatric faculty: Eric C. Beyer, MD, PhD, Susan L. Cohn, MD, John M. Cunningham, MD, Jill de Jong, MD, PhD, Tara Henderson, MD, MPH, James LaBelle, MD, PhD, Jennifer McNeer, MD, and Samuel L. Volchenboum, MD, PhD.
- Mark Applebaum, MD, received the 2019 Halo Award from Halo Cures and was named as one of 40 under 40 Chicago Scientists by Chicago magazine.
- Caitlin Cohen MSN, RN, CPNP-AC, CPHON, received CURE Magazine’s 2019 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing.
- Susan Cohn, MD, received the American Association for Cancer Research-Joseph H. Burchenal Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research.
- The American Society of Clinical Oncology has elected Tara Henderson, MD, MPH, to serve as the designated pediatric oncologist on its Board of Directors for the 2020-24 term.
- Brojendra Agarwala, MD, was named a 2019 Top Doctor by Chicago magazine.
- Daniel Gruenstein, MD, was named Chair of the 2019 Congenital Heart Disease Scientific Sessions of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention.
- Jason Kane, MD, MS, FAAP, FCCM, and Rachel Wolfson, MD, created the textbook Pediatric Critical Care: A Primer for All Clinicians, published by Nova Science.
- Rachel Wolfson, MD, and Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP were awarded a $2.1 million U01 Science of Mentoring Grant involving eight multi-institutional training sites to examine whether mentored research can improve the pipeline of physician-scientists, particularly women and minority students.
- Jason Kane, MD, MS, FAAP, FCCM, led the effort for UChicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital to be named a Center of Excellence in Pediatric Sedation for its demonstrated commitment to safe and effective procedural sedation.
- Priti Jani, MD, led the effort for Comer Children’s to receive the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines® Resuscitation Silver Neonate/Infant and Pediatric Awards for reaching an aggressive goal of treating patients with 85 percent or higher compliance to core standard levels of care.
- Peter Smith, MD, was named Chair of the Advocacy Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Smith also serves as a member of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Editorial Advisory Committee for the 12th Edition of the Definition Terminology & Classification Manual.
- Bradley Stolbach, PhD, received philanthropic funding as part of the $9.1 million gift by the Block Hassenfeld Casdin Collaborative for Family Resilience, which provides an ecosystem of trauma-informed care for children and their familites who are critically injured or exposed to violence on the South Side of Chicago.
- H. Barrett Fromme, MD, MHPE, was named Director of the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators.
- Thea Stranger-Najjar was appointed to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Coordinator Advisory Council for a 3-year term.
- Ritu Verma, MD, and Stefano Guandalini, MD, were named in Becker’s 117 GI Physicians to Know.
- Stefano Guandalini, MD, was named a 2019 Top Doctor by Chicago magazine.
- Stefano Guandalini, MD, was honored by the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition with the Distinguished Service Award.
- Timothy Sentongo, MBChB, and Cecelia Pompeii-Wolfe, RD, received the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition award for Clinical Nutrition Support Team of Distinction.
- James H. Tonsgard, MD, was named a 2019 Top Doctor by Chicago magazine.
- Wim Van Drongelen, PhD, and colleagues’ paper, “The Relationship Between Ictal Multi-Unit Activity and the Electrocorticogram,” published in the International Journal of Neural Systems, received the 2019 Hojjat Adeli Award for Outstanding Contributions in Neural Systems.
- Comer Children’s Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Center is accredited by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which performs yearly reviews to ensure the best care.
- Linda Wagner-Weiner, MD, was named a 2019 Top Doctor by Chicago magazine.
