Debra E. Weese-Mayer, MD

Medical director, Center for Autonomic Medicine in Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine

Specialties:

• Autonomic medicine

  The Center for Autonomic Medicine in Pediatrics (C.A.M.P.) at Children's Memorial is an interdisciplinary program focusing on the study of diseases affecting the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is the system that functions automatically to regulate breathing, heart rate, temperature regulation, gut motility and more. Learn more »

Special interests: Research in genetic disorders of the autonomic nervous system, respiratory control abnormalities, Rett syndrome, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Medical school: University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 1978

Postgraduate training: Fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine and control of breathing, Children's Memorial Hospital, 1982-1986; Residency in pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, 1978-1981

Certifications: Board certified in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, 1987; Pediatrics, 1982

Professional organizations

American Thoracic Society Statement on Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome; American Autonomic Society Statement on Autonomic Medicine in Pediatrics; Genetic and Metabolic Disease Advisory Committee of the Illinois Department of Public Health