Watch the videos and read the stories of the providers, staff, supporters, patients, families, volunteers and friends who make up the Seattle Children's family.
Efforts to promote twice-daily toothbrushing through parent and child education have been met with little success. The barrier that parents report most often is child non-compliance or refusal. Dr. Brent Collett is pursuing a new tactic, focusing on parents’ use of behavior management skills.
Between 10% and 40% of preschoolers have significant sleep problems, making them more likely to struggle in school, struggle with emotions and behavior and develop obesity. Dr. Michelle Garrison is investigating how a new approach can help parents fix these problems and improve their children’s health – and their family’s quality of life.
Most people would never want to relive adolescence, but Dr. Megan Moreno’s team does it every day, by following the Facebook posts of hundreds of young adults who participate in their research.
Dr. Laura Richardson is investigating whether an integrative approach to mental healthcare – called collaborative care – can help teens with depression get better care, faster.
Dr. Bryan King and colleagues' autism research investigates fundamental questions about a disorder whose prevalence has skyrocketed from one in 1,000 children 30 years ago to about one in 110 today.
As more people participate in research that sequences their genomes, Dr. Holly Tabor is investigating how researchers should tell participants about their risk for diseases and health problems.
Dr. Mark Majesky’s research could revolutionize treatments for everything from heart disease to muscular dystrophy.
Donor dollars play an essential role in supporting discovery and innovation at the laboratory bench and the bedside.
Seattle Children’s commitment to uncompensated care helps families focus on their child’s health rather than the cost of the medical care needed to restore it.
Dr. Sara Webb is looking beyond autism’s symptoms to identify the cognitive processes that drive children’s brains and behavior.
Dr. Sheela Sathyanarayana is identifying how everyday chemicals affect children and helping families find practical ways to reduce their exposure.
Dr. Michael Astion’s team is leading an innovative project to decrease unnecessary testing that could save families, hospitals and insurance companies millions of dollars a year.
Dr. Elizabeth McCauley is testing therapies that could put suicidal teens on track toward happier, healthier lives.
About 10% of adolescents suffer from depression, and roughly the same percentage of youth have substance abuse problems. While these numbers might seem alarming, Dr. Cari McCarty believes they also contain reasons for hope.
As one of the nation’s leading quality of care researchers, Dr. Rita Mangione-Smith is developing innovative ways to pinpoint which medical treatments, procedures and practices improve patients' lives, and which ones fall short.
By unraveling how craniofacial conditions affect childhood development, Dr. Matthew Speltz is dedicated to catching developmental problems earlier, when treatment could help children lead happier, more fulfilling lives.
As Dr. Pooja Tandon watched an increasing number of overweight children come through her office, she came to an uncomfortable realization: traditional weight-loss strategies frequently did not work.
By unraveling the genetic causes of rare brain disorders, Dr. Bill Dobyns is opening the door to innovative treatments for more common childhood diseases including autism, epilepsy and certain cancers.
When it comes to birth defects, craniofacial microsomia (CFM) isn’t a household name. But it’s the second most common congenital facial condition, affecting more than one in every 3,500 children. It occurs when part of a child’s face – usually the ear or jaw – is underdeveloped, and it can profoundly impact a child’s ability to hear, eat, breathe or speak. Which explains why Dr. Carrie Heike is on a mission to revolutionize our understanding of CFM.
A game-changing therapy for cystic fibrosis completes the journey from the laboratory to the bedside with help from Seattle Children’s.
The team at Seattle Children’s Emergency Department stands ready round-the-clock to treat any childhood illness and injury – from the catastrophic to the common.
Doctors at Seattle Children’s have developed groundbreaking tools that promise to fix the genetic causes of disease. Now they seek funding to turn the tools into cures.
VECA Electric and Technologies, a founding sponsor of Seattle Children's Research Champions program, has recently made an important discovery of its own: philanthropy can energize the donor as much as the recipient.
Dr. Timothy Cox is on the trail of the genetic and environmental factors that cause cleft lip and palate.
Seattle Children’s partners with community organizations to tackle tough – and ticklish – issues that affect kids.
Seattle Children’s is improving how we detect, prevent and treat the health problems that come in cancer’s aftermath.
Women who are asked about the impact of suffering a stillbirth have strikingly similar answers – whether they live in Seattle or in a rural Ugandan village. Many women feel like losing the child is their fault, feel pressure to “get over it” and may even be blamed by others for the loss. Dr. Maureen Kelley is working to eliminate the stigma behind this unwarranted guilt and silence, and to break down the barriers to recognizing prematurity and stillbirth as major global health issues.
Dr. Mike Jensen intends to start a revolution in pediatric cancer treatment where a child’s own immune system is the cure.
Nurses work on the front line of patient care and are the eyes and ears of the medical team.
Seattle Children’s surgeons apply the art and science of their craft to improve outcomes for kids.
Seattle Children’s Research Institute may be powered by the brightest scientific minds, but the original push for the institute came straight from the hearts of mothers.
Operated by the Center for Tissue and Cell Sciences, Seattle Children’s zebrafish aquatics facility is helping researchers pursue advanced therapies that repair congenital heart defects and other disorders – without invasive surgery or its complications.
Seattle Children's is taking a leadership role in making an audacious goal a reality: helping every child with autism get the services and treatment they deserve.
Dr. Gary Walco is on a mission to make every child's experience at the hospital as painless as possible. Starting now.
Dr. Luke Hoffman studies how different bacteria interact to improve treatment for chronic lung infections.
As a clinician and researcher specializing in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Dr. Lisa Frenkel, an investigator in the Center for Childhood Infections and Prematurity Research, stands at the crossroads between two worlds.
When Destiny was born, doctors detected that her small bowel was blocked because the lumen of the bowel was not formed. She has undergone about a dozen surgeries and in January 2011 received a small bowel transplant at Seattle Children’s.
Dr. Rusty Novotny opens the door to better epilepsy care through his focus on integrated, multimodal imaging.
Seattle Children's Nephrology team takes an innovative approach to providing teens with chronic kidney disease what they need to live the lives they choose.
CEO Dr. Tom Hansen challenged a team to develop a low-tech, low-cost ventilator for use in resource-limited areas. What they’ve designed could save millions of preterm infants in the developing world.
Eastside children and teens get the region’s best pediatric specialty care at our new Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center – and their parents get a short commute.
An innovative therapy helps children develop new motor pathways to improve use of a weakened arm.
Seattle Children's Journey Program helps parents and siblings invest in a changed life after the death of a child. Two hundred families use the program's bereavement services each year.
Our diverse league of volunteers – from high schoolers to golden-agers – carry out small tasks that reap big rewards for patients, families, staff members and the volunteers themselves.
Dr. Michael Jensen, who is leading research that has the potential to radically change the way pediatric cancers are treated – and cured – joined Seattle Children’s Research Institute in July 2010.
Dynamic duo Elizabeth Bennett and Dr. Linda Quan strive to stop drowning deaths through research, outreach and advocacy.
Dramatic innovations in cardiac catheterization mean fewer conditions require open-heart surgery. Children's interventional cardiologists are helping show the way.
Kim Arthur interviewed music therapist David Knott to find out how he uses music to help patients. He naturally turned to his musical instruments to explain.
The Biofeedback Clinic helps adolescents with chronic pain take back their lives. Using a variety of mind-body techniques – including guided visualization, progressive muscle relaxation and deep breathing – adolescents learn to control their pain.
Asthma is a blockage of bronchial tubes in the lungs caused by inflammation and swelling of the bronchial tubes, and spasm of the muscles surrounding the bronchial tubes. Find out more about asthma and current research being done by Dr. Jason Debley.
What does a 300-pound high-school football player with appendicitis have in common with a tiny newborn with the birth defect gastroschisis? Children's general and thoracic surgery providers can give both the care they need.
Injury and trauma are the leading cause of death among children, teens and young adults. Learn about injury prevention and the changes being made each day to help your children lead healthier lives.
No one appreciates the perseverance behind medical research more than Kari Foss, a member of Kentwood High School’s volleyball team, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 2.
Cancer and its treatment can have serious long-term effects on health that are sometimes not evident until later in life. We have a follow-up program for childhood cancer survivors and their families.
Ji Hyun Lee is a nurse practitioner in the Cancer program at Children’s. One visit with a pediatric cancer patient changed her entire career.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing infants enrolled in appropriate early intervention services by 6 months of age are likely to have normal language and cognitive development. Have an audiogram as early as possible so that your baby can be consistently exposed to language.
"A chronically ill child presents a challenging journey for a family, but through partnering with the medical teams at Children's we have been able to truly experience the joys of being parents."
If a problem is detected during a routine ultrasound screening, an obstetrician (OB) can refer the patient to Children’s Heart Center specialists for a complete fetal cardiac evaluation.
Pioneering organ transplant surgeon Dr. Jorge Reyes directs transplant services at Children’s and the University of Washington Medical Center. He is also a professor and chief of the Division of Transplantation at the UW School of Medicine.
Children’s multidisciplinary approach to cleft lip and palate provides an ideal environment for an infant with a cleft. A craniofacial pediatrician oversees the care of each child, creating a treatment plan tailored to the child’s condition and then coordinating care among the other specialists on the child’s care team.
"When a child’s heart beats too fast," says Dr. Jack Salerno, Children’s electrophysiologist, "we can use radiofrequency ablation to cauterize a small area of tissue that prevents the irregular heartbeat from recurring."
With cardiac catheterization, doctors use the bloodstream to get to the heart. Doctors make an incision in a vein near the groin, then insert a flexible hollow tube called a catheter.
A lot has changed over the last two decades in the treatment of bone tumors. As recently as the early 1980s, amputation was the standard of care and survival rates for cancerous bone tumors were less than 50%.
About one in every 100 babies born in the United States has a heart defect. Most of them will need treatment or surgery.