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Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH (he/him/his)

Professor of Pediatrics, Dir of Ed, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Seattle, Washington

Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine with adjunct appointments in the Departments of Bioethics & Humanities in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. Dr. Diekema founded the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Research Institute at Seattle Children’s in 2004 and currently serves as its Director of Education. He is past-Chair of the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics, past-chair of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Subjects Protections (SACHRP) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a former Board member of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities. He is currently a member of the FDA’s Pediatric Advisory Committee. Dr. Diekema is the author of numerous scholarly publications in bioethics and an editor of Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-based Textbook. He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and was honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics as the 2014 recipient of the William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence.

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