Morning Session II

Hailey Funk, MS, CGC, is a genetic counselor who has been with the Chicago Institute for Fetal Health at Lurie Children’s for 4 years.

She graduated from the Sarah Lawrence College Genetic Counseling program in 2018. Since graduating, she has been working in Chicago in both general prenatal genetic counseling and fetal health. She gained her initial prenatal genetics experience at UChicago Medicine before starting her work at Lurie Children’s, seeing families with fetal anomalies.

Ms. Funk sees patients at Lurie Children’s main hospital location.

Meg Wiley, MS, CGC, is a genetic counselor who joined the Lurie Children's team within the Chicago Institute for Fetal Health in May 2025.

She graduated from Northwestern's Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling in 2021. After this, she gained experience as a pediatric genetic counselor at Dell Children's Hospital in Austin, TX, providing care within the areas of general, metabolic, and cancer predisposition genetics, as well as inpatient neonatal and cardiac care. She then gained prenatal genetics experience at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center prior to her current role. Within the CIFH Meg provides genetic counseling to patients & families seeking care for fetal abnormalities.

Ms. Wiley sees patients at Lurie Children’s main hospital location.

Dr. Josh Baker is the Director of Inborn Errors of Metabolism in the Edwards Family Division of Genetics & Rare Diseases at Lurie Children’s Hospital. He specializes in diagnosis, treatment, and management of IEMs. He is also the Director of Newborn Screening at Lurie Children’s Hospital and Chair of the Illinois Universal Newborn Screening Advisory Committee. He participates in several clinical trials as principal investigator in novel therapies to treat IEMs. Current independent research includes investigating the social determinants of heath and impact on care of metabolic disease.

Dr. Baker completed his studies at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa in 2014. For his postgraduate training, he completed his residency in pediatrics at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois during 2014-2017. He continued with residency in medical genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2017-2019 and concluded with his fellowship in medical biochemical genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2019-2020.

Dr. Baker holds board certifications in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics and Genomics, and Medical Biochemical Genetics.

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

Larry Gray, MD, is a Medical Director of the Fussy Baby Network, as well as an attending physician at Lurie Children’s and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

After finishing his medical school at Northwestern University in 1993, he pursued his residency in pediatrics at Lurie Children’s during 1993-1996. He completed his fellowship in behavioral and developmental pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center during 1997-2000.

He is leading the efforts to help the parents and babies at the Fussy Baby Network by listening to the concerns. The excessive crying is a common trigger for child abuse but can also unwrap hidden medical issues in the newborn.

Dr. Gray sees patients at Lurie Children’s main location and at Lurie Children’s Outpatient Center & Physician Office – Pediatrics in Uptown (4867. N. Broadway).

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.