Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States
Dr. Mary E. Robbins, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University and an attending physician providing care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at both Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern Medicine's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago. She received her M.D. at Georgetown University School of Medicine; then, completed both her General Pediatrics Residency and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital/The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Go Bucks! She joined the Northwestern faculty in 2014 where she obtained K08 NIH funding in 2017. Dr. Robbins's research interests relate to the cellular processes involved in normal lung development and the pathologic changes to these processes that result in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD). Her primary research focus is on the role of the miR-17-92 cluster in normal lung and pulmonary vascular development, as well as, how it relates to the development of the structural and functional deficits present in BPD. Clinically, Dr. Robbins is interested in the care of infants with severe BPD as well as the 'small baby population' of extremely low birth weight infants born at <28 weeks gestation. She is a member of the American Thoracic Society and the Society for Pediatric Research.
Thursday, September 29, 2022
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM CT