Research Interests

  • Family-centered Care
  • Gender Disparities in the Workforce
  • Continuity of Care
  • Transitions of Care for Infants with Medical Complexities

Biography

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Attending Physician, Neonatology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

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Education and Background

  • Fellowship in Neonatology, Children’s Memorial Hospital 2007-2010
  • Residency in Pediatrics, University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital 2004-2007
  • MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine 2004

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Recent Publication

Restrictive dermopathy: Three new patients with ZMPSTE24 mutations and a review of the literature.

Research Interests

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (particularly as it pertains to patients with cystic fibrosis)

Recent Publication

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Pediatric Pulmonary Workforce: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.

Recent Publication

Hyperinflation and its association with successful transition to home ventilator devices in infants with chronic respiratory failure and severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Basic and Preclinical Science
Basic and Preclinical Science

Isabelle De Plaen, MD

Principal Investigator

De Plaen Laboratory

Research Interests

Cytokines, Digestive System (Including Gallbladder and Liver), Immunology, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Neonatal Necrotizing Entercolitis

Recent Publication

Recombinant IGF-1/BP3 protects against intestinal injury in a neonatal mouse NEC model.

Clinical and Community Trials

Research Interests

Autonomic medicine, Circadian rhythms, Developmental neurobiology, Developmental genetics, Endocrine genetics, Pacemakers, Respiratory diseases, Sudden cardiac death

Recent Publication

Computer-aided diagnostic screen for Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome with facial phenotype.