Craig Garfield is a Professor of Pediatrics and of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.  He is also an attending physician at the Lurie Children’s Hospital (LCH) of Chicago where he is the Director of FCHIP—the Family and Child Health Innovations Program. He has co-led the NICU2HOME+ team since its inception in May of 2010.

After graduating with a degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Dr. Garfield received his medical degree at Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital.  He completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Chicago and concurrently obtained his MAPP from the Harris School of Public Policy as a Harris Child and Family Scholar. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, his research focuses on understanding the role parents play in the health and wellbeing of children and in particular the role of fathers.  He also focuses on how technology can support parenting. His research has been funded by NIH, AHRQ, CDC, PCORI, RWJF and other philanthropic organizations. His work has been published in such peer-reviewed journals as JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Academic Pediatrics, and AJPH. A frequent plenary speaker on fathers in pediatrics, Dr. Garfield’s work has also been featured in popular news outlets like the New York Times, USA Today, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and the Katie Couric Show. Before becoming a pediatrician, Craig thought he was going to be a dairy farmer when he worked on the Straus Family Dairy. Instead, he has settled for backyard chickens.