The Co-Pilot Team

Michelle Macy, MD, MS

Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Director of Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Outcomes, Research and Evaluation Center, and Scientific Director of Community, Population Health, and Outcomes, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute

Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 

Adam B. Becker, PhD, MPH

Executive Director, Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, Smith Child Health Research Program, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 

Emily Golbeck, MBA

Director of Operations 
Smith Child Health Outcomes, Research and Evaluation Center 
Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute 
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 

Laiba Bajwa, MPH

Associate Director of Community and Provider Input for Learning, Outreach and Transformation (Co-Pilot) 
Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute   
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 

Marie Heffernan, PhD

Director of Voices of Child Health in Chicago

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Survey Science Lead, Smith Child Health Outcomes, Research, and Evaluation Center Catalyst program  
Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 

Callie Caplan, MPH

Senior Research Scientist 

Smith Child Health Outcomes, Research, and Evaluation Center Catalyst program Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute 

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago