When:
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Chambers Hall, Lower Level, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Emily Rosman
(847) 491-2527
nico@northwestern.edu
Group: Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings, Data Science & AI
Speakers:
Todd Florin, MD, MSCE, Associate Division Head for Academic Affairs & Research, Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, MD, MBI, Attending Physician, Critical Care, Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care) and Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Title:
Pediatric Acute & Critical Care Research & Innovation
Abstract:
TBA
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Todd Florin is a founding co-director of the Center for Pediatric Acute and Critical Care Research and Innovation (PACCRI). He is a pediatric emergency medicine physician-scientist with interests in pediatric respiratory infections and expertise in clinical and molecular epidemiology, predictive analytics, and large-scale, multicenter clinical trials in the acute care setting. He is committed to generating and implementing the best evidence to allow for precision care tailored to each patient.
Dr. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto is a founding co-director of the Center for Pediatric Acute and Critical Care Research and Innovation (PACCRI). He is a pediatric critical care medicine physician-scientist with interests in sepsis and expertise in data science and clinical informatics. His goal is to develop, test, and operationalize AI-enabled predictive and prognostic enrichment strategies that can help clinicians provide more personalized and targeted care to critically ill children.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/92586384543
PW: NICO26
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.