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Dr. Todd A. Florin

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Director of Research, Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Head, Grainger Initiative in Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research
Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

About

Areas of Focus

  • Pediatric respiratory infections (pneumonia, bronchiolitis, influenza)
  • Pediatric emergency medicine
  • Pediatric infectious diseases
  • Clinical trials
  • Epidemiology
  • Biomarkers

Work/Research

  • Improving the diagnosis, management and outcomes of children with common but serious infections - specifically lower respiratory tract infections
  • Developing risk stratification tools and use of biomarkers to improve outcomes in children with pneumonia at the point-of-care
  • Improving treatments for respiratory tract infections in children through resource utilization, variation in care, antimicrobial stewardship and use of clinical trials
  • Antimicrobial stewardship in the emergency department setting
  • Principal investigator of Catalyzing Ambulatory Research in Pneumonia Etiology and Diagnostic Innovations in Emergency Medicine (CARPE DIEM), a prospective cohort study of children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) with the overall objectives of using clinical and translational methodology to understand CAP pathophysiology, improve prediction of CAP severity, and enhance differentiation of CAP etiology

Career

Florin's clinical focus is on the care of acutely ill and injured children in the Emergency Department at Lurie Children's Hospital.