Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University of Chicago Medicine
Dr. Allison H. Bartlett, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSDA is a Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital. She trained in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Texas Children’s Hospital.
She has served as the Associate Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control since joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Medicine in 2011, where she has primary content expertise for pediatric areas and also participates in system-wide initiatives regardless of patient population. She is active in the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS).
She built on the expertise developed working with the infection prevention and control team and expanded her responsibilities to oversee quality improvement and patient safety initiatives across the children’s hospital in 2014. She was appointed Chief Quality Officer for Comer Children’s Hospital in 2023.
She lives in Chicago with her husband and their three sons and is an avid (recreational) cyclist. She and her family enjoy escaping the city and heading to the Northwoods of Wisconsin for outdoor recreation: hiking, canoeing, swimming, sailing and more. During the pandemic, she renewed her love of knitting and cross-stitching.