Faculty

Robert Grundmeier, MD - Faculty Profile
Attending Physician, Division of General Pediatrics
South Philadelphia Primary Care Center, 1900 South Broad Street
grundmeier_AT_email.chop.edu
215-590-5943
Research Interests:
  • Primary care pediatrics
  • The use of computer technology to improve healthcare delivery
Abbas Jawad, Msc, PhD - Faculty Profile
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Division of Biostatistics
3535 Market Street, Room 1454
jawad_AT_email.chop.edu
215-590-3236
Research Interest: Evaluation and development of methods for the analysis of biomedical data in neurology, autism, sickle cell disease and neuroimaging applications
Richard Lin, MD
Attending Intensivist,
Department of Critical Care Medicine
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard Room 7113
linr_AT_email.chop.edu
215-590-4699
Research Interests:
  • Information systems in intensive care unit care
  • Applications of engineering analysis to clinical care
  • Clinical research and epidemiology
Eli Lourie, MD
Attending Physician, General Pediatrics
600 Haverford Rd Ste 100, KidsFirst Haverford
lourie_AT_email.chop.edu
610-658-0171
Research Interests:
  • Clinical outcome measures
  • Educational initiatives on implementation and development of electronic health records
Anthony Luberti, MD
Director, General Pediatrics, After Hours Program
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard
luberti_AT_email.chop.edu
215-590-2290
Research Interests:
  • General practice
  • Clinical informatics
Jeffrey Silber, MD - Faculty Profile
Attending Physician, Division of Oncology
3535 Market Street, Room 1029
silber_AT_email.chop.edu
215-590-2540
Research Interests:
  • Quality and cost-effectiveness measures as they apply to the pediatric population
  • Understanding the properties of outcome measures, which allow researchers to better evaluate the tools used in the marketplace to assess quality of care
Peter S. White, PhD - Faculty Profile
Research Associate Professor, Division of Oncology
Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics
white_AT_genome.chop.edu
Research Interests:
  • Structuring and integration of both basic research and clinically derived information to more effectively translate molecular findings to appropriate disease interventions
  • Developing effective methods for extracting biomedically relevant objects and relationships from unstructured text, and for deploying these methods in applications that have widespread appeal and broad use
Joseph Zorc, MD - Faculty Profile
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine
3535 Market Street, Room 1539
zorc_AT_email.chop.edu
215-590-5237
Research Interests:
  • Asthma therapy and randomized clinical trials conducted in the emergency department setting
  • Decision support in information systems to streamline clinical care and research
Edward F. Attiyeh, MD
Instructor, Division of Oncology
Abramson Research Center, Room 910
attiyeh_AT_email.chop.edu
Research Interest: Neuroblastoma genomics and transcriptomics
Charles Bailey, MD, PhD
Attending Physician, Divisions of Oncology and Hematology
Wood Center, Division of Oncology, 4 Wood
baileyc_AT_mail.med.upenn.edu
Research Interest: Computational analysis of gene expression data to discover pathway signatures in tumors and normal tissues
Jeffrey S. Barrett, PhD - Faculty Profile
Research Associate Professor, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Abramson Research Center, Room 916
barrettj_AT_email.chop.edu
267-426-5479
Research Interests:
  • Investigation of mechanisms to optimize pharmacotherapy
  • The use of drugs to treat diseases, conditions, and symptoms
Geoffrey L. Bird, MD FAAP
Staff Cardiac Intensivist
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Cardiac ICU Physician Offices, Room 6121 A
bird_AT_email.chop.edu
215-506-1903 (pager)
215-590-6256 (office)
Research Interests:
  • High resolution physiologic signal analysis
  • Cardiac intensive care medicine
  • Pediatric cardiac and critical care information systems
  • Extracorporeal support
Bimal Desai, MD
Clinical Associate, Division of General Pediatrics
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Room 2405 A
Research Interests:
  • Electronic health records and clinical decision support
  • Development of web-based education and collaboration tools
  • Development and use of databases for clinical research
Marcella Devoto, PhD - Faculty Profile
Associate Professor, Division of Genetics
Abramson Research Center, Room 1002
devoto_AT_email.chop.edu
267-426-0124
Research Interests:
  • Linkage and association studies of complex and quantitative traits, focusing on genetic studies of osteoporosis in families with low bone mineral density
  • Application of genome wide association approaches to the identification of genes underlying different complex traits such as asthma, neuroblastoma and cardiovascular disease
Alex Fiks, MD - Faculty Profile
Assistant Professor, Division of General Pediatrics
fiks_AT_email.chop.edu
Research Interests:
  • Quality improvement in outpatient pediatrics
  • Clinical decision support
  • Immunization delivery
  • Care of underserved populations
Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD -
Faculty Profile
Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer, Division of General Pediatrics
Abramson Research Center, Room 1335
forrestc_AT_email.chop.edu
267-426-6909
Research Interests:
  • Health-related quality of life
  • Linkages between health and school performance
  • Predictive modeling
  • Risk adjustment
  • Using health information technology to enable transformation of children's health services
David Friedman, MD
Associate Director, Blood Bank and Associate Director, Apheresis Service
34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Room 5132
friedman_AT_email.chop.edu
215-590-4517
Research Interests:
  • Transfusion medicine
  • Blood banking
  • Apheresis
  • Pediatric hematology