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Assistant Professor
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Leena B. Mithal, MD MSCI is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Attending Physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship. Her clinical-translational research focus is perinatal/neonatal infection, host immune response, and the health outcomes. She studies novel cord blood and placental diagnostics for early onset neonatal sepsis, the effect of SARS-CoV-2 in pregnanacy, perinatal microbial transmission of multidrug resistant bacteria, infant microbiome, and congenital CMV. Her research agenda encompasses both a primary microbial focus and a broader perinatal exposome landscape, with the goal of informing new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Dr. Mithal is a Fellow of PIDS and of the Society for Pediatric Research.