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Seema K. Shah, JD, HEC-C (she/her/hers)

Director, Pediatric Research Ethics and Policy Program
Lurie Children's Hospital
Chicago, Illinois

Seema K. Shah, JD, HEC-C is a Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School and the Founder’s Board Professor of Medical Ethics at Lurie Children’s Hospital, with a courtesy appointment at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. Prof. Shah is also the Director of Research Ethics and leads the Pediatric Research Ethics and Policy Program at Lurie Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on pediatric and global health research ethics, including on ethical and regulatory issues arising in controlled human infection studies and pediatric pandemic preparedness. Prof. Shah has served as Chair of an NIH panel on ethical considerations in conducting Zika virus human challenge trials. She is a Hastings Center Fellow and has been inducted into the Society for Pediatric Research. Prof. Shah currently serves on the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Disease Council for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, as an expert advisor for the World Health Organization, and as a member of a committee for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

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