Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship

• Provide fellows in pediatric rehabilitation with exposure to a variety of common, complex, and rare pediatric rehabilitation diagnoses under the guidance of engaged core faculty.
• Provide fellows in pediatric rehabilitation with knowledge and skills to treat and manage complex care in collaboration with related subspecialty experts.
• Provide fellows in pediatric rehabilitation with knowledge and skills to treat and manage complex care in collaboration with related subspecialty experts.
• Provide fellows in pediatric rehabilitation with a supportive environment that provides skills necessary for fellows to develop into leaders and contributors to new knowledge in the area of pediatric rehabilitation.

We also offer opportunities at day rehabilitation sites, an elective opportunity at Shriners Hospital for Children in Chicago, opportunities at inpatient units and a wide variety of common and rare diagnosis experience in all levels of care.

• Shirley Ryan Ability offers 30-bed inpatient pediatric rehabilitation service that draws from local, national, and international sources. Typical experiences include management of children with cerebral palsy, neuromuscular disorders, brain injuries, and spinal cord injuries, limb deficiencies, burn injuries, pain, oncology-related impairments, and organ transplant.
• Inpatient team members includes PRM core faculty, pediatric hospitalist consultants, advanced practice nurse, 2 PM&R residents, clinical educators, pharmacist, respiratory therapists, nursing, and therapists, among others. Each fellow has 4 months on the inpatient team per year.
• Monthly Weekend call with 1:1 attending supervision

Consults at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

• Collaboration with other specialists and experts including Neurology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Hematology & Oncology, among others.

Multidisciplinary Clinics

• Cerebral Palsy/Spasticity Clinic
• NICU follow up clinic and early diagnosis
• Spina Bifida
• Congenital Brachial Plexus Injury
• Adolescent Chronic Pain program
• Brain Tumor Clinic
• Neuromuscular Clinic/Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic
• Vascular Lesion Clinic

Procedures

• Botulinum toxin injections
• Ultrasound access for injection localization and diagnosis
• Phenol nerve block
• Intrathecal baclofen pump evaluation and management
• Intraoperative monitoring for selective dorsal rhizotomies
• On-site gait analysis and interpretation
• Non-invasive pain management techniques, including facial distortion model, acupuncture, and frequency specific micro current (FSM). FSM is low intensity electrical morality that utilizes tissue specific frequencies to reduce pain and improve tissue healing
• Onsite prosthetics and orthotics evaluation, fabrication, and management

Fellow Continuity Clinic

• Weekly clinic led by the fellow and staffed by rotating faculty

• Research and Patient Safety/Quality Improvement projects requirement with guidance from faculty and other researchers
• Support from Northwestern statisticians
• Yearly research presentation at the Annual Sarah Baskin Research Day
• Access to courses and research software available through Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center Library
• Variety of research opportunities including mitochondrial research, Robotic technology, early diagnosis of CP, community participation and function after congenital brachial plexus injury, among many others
• We participate in CP registry efforts at the local and national level

• Monthly didactics, including case presentation and expert presentation from attending or invited lecturer
• Monthly Journal Club covering different topics in the field of PRM
• Monthly Journal Club dedicated to the topic of Cerebral Palsy
• Weekly Grand Rounds
• Monthly Fellowship Seminar Series
• Yearly Grand Rounds presentation by fellow
• ccess to teaching residents and medical students on a daily basis in inpatient and outpatient setting
• Participation in resident didactic curriculum
• Yearly ultrasound course with residents
• Weekly research seminars led by experts in research
• Ethics Rounds held quarterly
• Opportunities in Medical Education training

• Dawn Deike, DO
  • Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinical Faculty at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Laura Black, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinical Faculty at Riley Hospital Indiana
• Jessica Pruente
  • Assistant Professor PM&R University of Michigan
  • Pediatric Clinical Faculty
• Ana-Marie Rojas, MD
  • Assistant Professor PM&R Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Attending Physician Pediatric PMR, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
  • PRM Fellowship program Director
• David Fogelman, MD
  • Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Clinical Instructor of PMR Harvard Medical School
• Larissa Pavone, MD
  • Attending Physician Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital,
  • PM&R Presidency Program Director, Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
• Justin Burton, MD
  • Division Chief, Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Children is National Hospital, Washington, D.C.

We use NRMP to match candidates. The deadline for registering/submitting to the match is mid-December.

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