Helen J. Binns, MD, MPH, is Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. She directs the Nutritional Evaluation and Lead Evaluation Clinics at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago.  She completed medical school at Northwestern University and a pediatric residency and Ambulatory Pediatrics Fellowship at Children’s Memorial Hospital.  In 1996, she completed a MPH degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Dr. Binns directs the Pediatric Practice Research Group (PPRG), a practice-based research network, and has extensive experience with practice-based research in primary care settings.  Her research team works within the multidisciplinary research program of the Mary Ann and J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program of Children's Memorial Research Center.  Her research has focused on nutrition, tobacco and lead poisoning prevention. 

She currently is chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health and the AAP liaison to the CDC Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention.  She is a member of the Executive Board of the Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics.