R. Andrew de Freitas, MD

Biography

  • Attending Physician, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

See Lurie Children's Provider Profile

Education and Background

  • Fellowship in Adult Cardiology, Boston Medical Center 1997-2000
  • Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Children's Hospital Boston 1995-1997, 2000-2001
  • Residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital 1990-1991
  • MD, University of California David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 1990

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Clinical and Community Trials

Recent Publication

The impact of damaging epilepsy and cardiac genetic variant burden in sudden death in the young.

Clinical and Community Trials

Research Interests

Pediatric Radiology, Cardiovascular CT and MRI, Congenital Heart Disease

Recent Publication

Ultra-rapid, Free-breathing, Real-time Cardiac Cine MRI Using GRASP Amplified with View Sharing and KWIC Filtering.

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.

Research Interests

Cardiovascular Imaging, Kawasaki Disease, Multisystem Inflammatory Disease in Children, COVID-related Cardiac Abnormalities, Medical Education

Recent Publication

A Reference Equation for Peak Oxygen Uptake for Pediatric Patients Who Undergo Treadmill Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing.

Basic and Preclinical Science

Research Interests

Microbiome, Host-microbial interactions, Infectious diseases, Molecular pathogenesis

Recent Publication

Gut microbiota analyses of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma patients undergoing narrowband ultraviolet B therapy reveal alterations associated with disease treatment.

Community, Population Health, and Outcomes

Research Interests

Health Policy, Healthcare Quality, Health Disparities, Outcome Measures

Recent Publication

Association of social determinants of health-related diagnosis codes with postoperative outcomes.