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. 

Alanna Higgins Joyce, MD, MPH, is an attending pediatrician in the Division of Hospital-Based Medicine at Lurie Children’s, caring for hospitalized children and newborns. She is also Clerkship Director in Pediatrics where she oversees medical student programming and assessment. In this role Alanna works with faculty, staff, and administration across several institutions for the training of medical students in patient care settings. Alanna is an Associate Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; she has published and spoken nationally in the areas of medical education, faculty feedback, and curriculum development.

Alanna holds an MD and an MPH from Tulane University and completed residency training in Pediatrics at the former Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She has a Master of Science in Teaching and experience teaching middle-school science. Alanna earned her bachelor’s degree in cognitive science from Northwestern University. She is a mother of three boys and a lifelong ballet dancer.

Dr. Higgins Joyce sees patients at Lurie Children’s – main hospital location and Prentice Women’s Hospital at Northwestern Medicine.

Waheeda Samady, MD, MSCI is currently an attending physician in the Division of Hospital-Based Medicine and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.  She is also the Co-Director of Clinical Research at the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research (CFAAR).

Before joining Northwestern and Lurie Children’s, Dr. Samady completed her pediatric residency and pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at the University of California San Diego.

At CFAAR, she is the PI of the ICARE study, an NIH funded study focused on understanding food introduction patterns amongst parents.  She is also involved in the Intervention to Reduce Early (Peanut) Allergy in Children (iREACH), a study designed to improve clinician implementation of early introduction of peanuts to decrease peanut allergy in children and the CANDO study, a RCT on multi-allergen food introduction.

Dr. Samady sees patients at Lurie Children’s main hospital location.

Craig Garfield, MD, is a pediatric hospitalist at Lurie Children’s and a Professor of Pediatrics and of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine He is also the Director of Research for the Division of Hospital-Based Medicine. 

In 2020 he became the founder and director of the Family and Child Health Innovations Program (FCHIP), which focuses on how to support families in all their diversity and is buoyed by our motto that “Children thrive when families thrive”. After graduation with a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Dr. Garfield received his medical degree at Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed his pediatric training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Chicago and concurrently obtained a Masters in the Art of Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy as a Harris Child and Family Scholar. 

He uses quantitative and qualitative methods in his work and is intrigued as much in the numbers and data as he is in hearing the voices of those often unheard. His research has been funded by NIH, AHRQ, CDC, PCORI, RWJF and other philanthropic organizations. Career highlights include authoring all three of the AAP’s statements on Fathers and Pediatrics, collaboration with the CDC to create the first-ever public health surveillance system for fathers, called PRAMS for Dads, and contributing to the scientific evidence of the “dad bod.”  Dr. Garfield is a frequent plenary speaker on the topic of fathers, family, technology, and health.

Dr. Garfield sees the patients at Prentice Women’s Hospital at Northwestern Medicine.

Mahima Keswani, MD, is a Pediatric Nephrologist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She also serves as the Medical Director of Dialysis at Lurie Children’s.

After completing her undergraduate degree in Biology at Rutgers University followed by her medical degree at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (formerly the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), she left New Jersey to complete a pediatric residency at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., followed by a pediatric nephrology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, MA. Dr. Keswani began at Lurie Children’s in 2013 and was named as the Director of Dialysis in 2020. Her clinical focus has been on improved care of both the acute and chronic dialysis populations with a special focus on infection prevention.

Dr. Keswani sees patients at Lurie Children’s main location and at Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital.

Waheeda Samady, MD, MSCI is currently an attending physician in the Division of Hospital-Based Medicine and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.  She is also the Co-Director of Clinical Research at the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research (CFAAR).

Before joining Northwestern and Lurie Children’s, Dr. Samady completed her pediatric residency and pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at the University of California San Diego.

At CFAAR, she is the PI of the ICARE study, an NIH funded study focused on understanding food introduction patterns amongst parents.  She is also involved in the Intervention to Reduce Early (Peanut) Allergy in Children (iREACH), a study designed to improve clinician implementation of early introduction of peanuts to decrease peanut allergy in children and the CANDO study, a RCT on multi-allergen food introduction.

Dr. Samady sees patients at Lurie Children’s main hospital location.