Current Trainees

Costanza Di Chiara is a paediatrician with expertise in the field of Infectious Diseases. She is a PhD candidate in the Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Padova in Italy, attending a research fellowship at SickKids in Toronto. Viral infections are her research interest area, and since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been focusing on epidemiological, clinical and immunological features of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination in children.

Robyn Elphinstone is a pediatric infectious diseases physician. She did the combined MD/PhD Program through the University of Toronto. Robyn completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Kain looking at the host response to severe malaria. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow looking at a novel biomarker for the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis in neonates and young infants. Her other research interests including host pathogen interactions, endothelial dysfunction, CNS infections and neonatal outcomes.