Mariana Glusman, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending pediatrician at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Her areas of expertise include language and early literacy promotion in pediatrics with a focus on Latino families, health literacy, bilingual language development and working in multicultural settings. She was the head of the Leyendo Juntos (Reading Together) initiative for Reach Out and Read, which included developing a provider guide and an online curriculum for providers working with Latino families.

Dr. Glusman is the Medical Director for the Reach Out and Read Illinois Coalition representing and supporting 130 Reach Out and Read sites throughout the state. She is also currently working with Dr. Dana Suskind developing a Thirty Million Words intervention for language promotion in the pediatric setting, targeting parents of infants from birth to six months, as well as with National Reach Out and Read’s initiative focusing on infants birth to 6 months.

Her book, Start with a Love Story: Words of Wisdom for Parents of Newborns, will be available in December 2015.