Associate Director, CF Center, Attending Physician
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
My name is John Palla, MD, and I am an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University of Chicago, pediatric pulmonologist on faculty at Lurie Children’s Hospital in the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, and the associate director of the CF care center. As the associate director I have clinical and research interests in improving health disparities within CF. My research include understanding the disproportionate underrespresentation of hispanic children in CF and clinic trials and assessing for potential airway microbiome differences in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white children with CF that could be contributing to the increased morbidity/mortality seen in Hispanic children with CF.