Dr. Carolyn Foster, MD, MS is a tenure track Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in primary and complex care. As a primary investigator of the Foster Health Lab, she holds NIH, AHRQ, and foundation funding to improve the wellbeing of children with disabling chronic conditions, while reducing health-care related stress for their families, through family-partnered research, innovative healthcare design, and policy change. She directs Lurie Children's Stanley Manne Research Institute's Health@Home Initiative to catalyze innovation in pediatric healthcare delivered outside hospital walls by designing, developing, and evaluating novel digital tools and devices for care at home.