Seema Awatramani, MD, FAAP

Dr. Awatramani is co-founder, co-owner, and Medical Director of UrgiKids – a pediatric urgent care in Naperville, IL. Dr. Awatramani is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She has previously worked at New York University/Bellevue Hospital where she also completed her subspecialty training. She completed her pediatric residency at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, IL. She is formerly the director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she is currently adjunct faculty in the department of Pediatrics. Dr. Awatramani has a particular interest in multimedia, education and community outreach. She hosts a medical radio show called, “On Call for Kids” on SIRIUS XM’s Doctor Radio, channel 110 and has served as a medical resource for CBS News in Chicago. She is also a certified life support instructor for both healthcare professionals and the general community. In the fall of 2017, Dr. Awatramani was elected to the boards of the College of Urgent Care Medicine as well as the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. Dr. Awatramani received her Doctor of Medicine from the Southern Illinois School of Medicine and has a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.