The Centers of Excellence focus on specific child health issues, and represent areas that either lie outside of programmatic scope or cross program boundaries. Members may choose to affiliate with one or more program, or with a center.

Below is a list of our centers and the people who manage them. To learn more about each facility, click here.

Center for Clinical Trials Research
Director: Stewart Goldman, MD

Center for Community Partnerships and Health Promotion
Co-Directors: Jenifer Cartland, PhD, Maryann Mason, PhD, and Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH

Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury
Director: Mark Wainwright, MD, PhD

Center for Neuroblastoma Research
Director: Morris Kletzel, MD, MBA

Falk Brain Tumor Research Center
Co-Directors: Tadanori Tomita, MD, and
Marcelo Bento Soares, PhD

Chicago City-wide FOCIS (Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies) Center of Excellence in Clinical Immunology (FCE)
Director: Lauren M. Pachman, MD