Morning Session 1

Ravi Jhaveri, MD, attended Boston Medical University as an undergraduate and Mount Sinai School of Medicine for medical school. He subsequently completed his residency training in General Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Hospitals and a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA. After fellowship, he joined the division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Duke University Medical Center, then 9 years later joined the Pediatrics department at NC Children's Hospital/UNC as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Infectious Diseases. After having served on the faculty at both Duke and UNC, in October 2018 Dr. Jhaveri became Associate Division Head for Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago and Professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 

Dr. Jhaveri's research has largely focused on Hepatitis C virus pathogenesis. He is currently in transitional studies into the mechanisms and circumstances surrounding mother to infant transmission of HCV. Dr. Jhaveri is also involved in clinical aspects of children infected with HCV, from evaluation and treatment to studies of long-term outcomes. He currently serves on the AASLD/IDSA HCV Guidelines Panel. He also conducts research on management of febrille infants and optimizing the use of laboratory testing to aid physician decision-making. 

Dr. Jhaveri sees patients at the Lurie Children's main location. 

Kelly Horn, PhD, LCSW, is a social worker in the Department of Psychiatry at Lurie Children’s Hospital. She works in the Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine in the Eating Disorder Program. She received her MSW from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2014 and completed her PhD in Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2022. She is currently an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, teaching courses in Mental Health Practice to MSW students.  

Dr. Horn specializes in working with patients with eating disorders, primarily restrictive eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa and Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. She received training in Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa through Stanford University as well as through the Training Institute in Chicago. Her research and clinical interests include providing equity in treatment for individuals with eating disorders, adapting FBT to meet the needs of the patient population in the community, and the intersection of eating disorders in gender diverse young people. 

Dr. Horn sees patients at Lurie Children’s outpatient center at 1440 N. Dayton.