Our Team
Director

Deepika Polineni, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (PEFA), Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine
Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center
Associate director

Andrea Michele Coverstone, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine
Program Director, Pulmonary Fellowship
Top areas of care: asthma, cystic fibrosis, pediatric sleep
Meet our care team
Learn more about our full patient care team on the St. Louis Children’s Hospital site.
Therapeutic Development Network (TDN)
The Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Network is the largest CF clinical trials network in the world. We bring together experts from across the country to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of new CF therapies through clinical studies.
Pediatric director

Jessica Pittman, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine
Co-Director, Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Center
Researcher, Patient Oriented Research Unit
Top areas of care: early childhood lung disease, cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia