Morning Session 1

Ravi Jhaveri, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP, is the Division Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Lurie Children’s and Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 

Prior to joining Lurie Children’s, he spent time on the faculty at both Duke and UNC School of Medicine.

Dr. Jhaveri’s research spans many aspects of Hepatitis C virus, with a particular focus on the burden, clinical outcomes, and treatment of HCV in infants, children, and pregnant women.   He currently serves on the AASLD/IDSA HCV Guidelines Panel as well as the AASLD Viral Hepatitis Elimination Task Force.  He also has an interest in vaccination of both healthy children and those with immunocompromised conditions. 

Dr. Jhaveri is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, where he served on the PIDS Board of Directors from 2015-2019. Dr. Jhaveri is also the former Chair of the IDSA Standards and Practice Guidelines committee.

He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (JPIDS) and formerly served as one of the Co-Editors-in-Chief for the journal Clinical Therapeutics.

Dr. Jhaveri sees patients at Lurie Children’s – main hospital 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 Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital.

Talia Shear, MD, is an attending physician in the Division of Neurology and the Division of Palliative Care at Lurie Children’s and a Clinical Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Shear is both a fellowship-trained child neurologist and palliative care physician. She works with children with a variety of conditions and their families to support values-based shared decision making and quality of life. She is building a pediatric neuropalliative care clinic, the first in Illinois, that uniquely addresses the needs of children with serious neurological conditions and their families.

Dr. Shear has been recognized with awards for her professionalism, teaching, and humanism. Currently, Dr. Shear serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Health Advocacy and is developing a neuropalliative care curriculum for pediatric trainees. She has a lifelong passion for advocating for disability rights.

Dr. Shear sees patients at Lurie Children’s main location in Chicago and at Lurie Children's at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Pediatric Outpatient Center in Winfield.

Mallory Hilliard, LCSW, CADC, is the Director of Outpatient Psychiatry and Intake Services for the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Lurie Children’s.

Mallory is a licensed clinical social worker as well as a certified alcohol and drug counselor. Her clinical areas of focus are working with children and caregivers who have experienced chronic and acute stressors and trauma, as well as children and adolescents experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis. She currently serves in a leadership role within the Department of Psychiatry while also seeing individual patients in an outpatient setting.

Additionally, her academic area of focus is providing education and teaching to medical practitioners, such as medical residents and Advanced Practice Providers, on suicide risk assessment and safety planning. She has multiple publications in peer reviewed journals related to suicide screening practices in primary care.  

 Ms. Hilliard sees patients at Lurie Children’s Outpatient Services at 1440 N. Dayton in Lincoln Park.

Kelly Horn, PhD, LCSW, is a social worker in the Department of Psychiatry at Lurie Children’s. She works in the Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. She received her MSW from the University of Illinois at Chicago 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, the intersection of eating disorders in gender diverse young people, and ethical considerations in the treatment of eating disorders. She enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team and collaborating with providers in all fields who work with young people with eating disorders.

Dr. Horn sees patients at Lurie Children’s main hospital location in Chicago. 

Alyssa Cohen, MD, MSc, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, a faculty researcher in the Smith Child Health Outcomes, Research, and Evaluation Center and an attending physician in the Division of Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care at Lurie Children’s.

Dr. Cohen is a primary care pediatrician and health services researcher whose work has focused on childhood adversity, online media, and patient-provider communication. Her goal as an independent investigator is to conduct research that improves youth health through interventions to support positive social media use and mitigate adverse experiences online.

Dr. Cohen sees patients at Lurie Children’s Outpatient Center in Lincoln Park.