Erin Paquette, MD, JD, M. Bioethics, FAAP, HEC-C

Assistant Professor of Critical Care Pediatrics and School of Law
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Pritzker School of Law (by courtesy); Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Erin Paquette is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Law (by courtesy) in the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She is also an attending physician in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Chair of the Ethics Advisory Board at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Her primary academic interests include research, advocacy, and policy development that reduces health disparities, addresses bias, racism, and other structural determinants of health and promotes social justice. Her current research involves evaluating disparities in research enrollment and participation, the use of medico-legal partnerships to address the social determinants of health, and understanding provider and public perceptions of brain death. Additional interests include the role for conflict resolution training to improve communication in the ICU, evaluating health care access in relation to health outcomes, and studying the informed consent process for children participating in research.

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Presentation(s):

• Association between Study Factors and Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity in Pediatric Acute Care Research

  Wednesday, April 20, 2022
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US CST

• Families Are Often Adversaries, Putting Personal Needs Above the Child's Best Interests

  Thursday, April 21, 2022
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US CST