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Maureen K. Kelley, PhD

Children's Title: Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics

Academic Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Bioethics, University of Washington School of Medicine

Research Center: Center for Clinical and Translational Research

Maureen Kelley, PhD, is an ethics consultant for the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Bioethics, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and adjunct assistant professor in the UW Departments of Bioethics and Humanities and of Philosophy. She earned her PhD in philosophy at Rice University. She has held faculty appointments at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Alabama. She serves on the Regulatory Support and Bioethics Core of the University of Washington’s Institute for Translational Health Sciences and on the steering committee for the Global Health Pathway in the pediatric residency program.

She conducts research on ethical issues in pediatric global health and international research ethics and moral conflict resolution. She is involved in international research projects in Siberia and Zambia. Current projects include: supporting adolescent decision-making for runaways, street children and orphans; improving criteria of vulnerability and risk for orphans and street children in the context of HIV/AIDS; managing the ethical dilemmas raised by infant feeding practices in HIV-infected mothers in resource-poor settings and the role of moral compromise in global health practice and policy.

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Research Description: I conduct research on ethical issues in pediatric global health and international research ethics and moral conflict resolution. I am involved in international research projects in Siberia and Zambia.

My current projects include: supporting adolescent decision-making for runaways, street children and orphans; improving criteria of vulnerability and risk for orphans and street children in the context of HIV/AIDS; managing the ethical dilemmas raised by infant feeding practices in HIV-infected mothers in resource-poor settings and the role of moral compromise in global health practice and policy.
Research Focus Area: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Behavioral / Mental Health

Awards and Honors

Award Name	Award Description	Awarded By	Award Date
	Whiteley Scholar - The Helen R. Whiteley Foundation and University of Washington	The Helen R. Whiteley Foundation and University of Washington	Jan. 1, 2009

Publications

Case study. Denial. Commentary.
The Hastings Center report , 2010 Nov-Dec: 12

Should international adoption be part of humanitarian aid efforts? Lessons from Haiti.
Bioethics , 2010 Sep: 373-80

Global report on preterm birth and stillbirth (6 of 7): ethical considerations.
BMC pregnancy and childbirth , 2010 Feb 23: S6

Simulation-based crisis team training for multidisciplinary obstetric providers.
Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare , 2009 Summer: 77-83

Challenges in the use of direct-to-consumer personal genome testing in children.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB , 2009: 32-4

Sharing data and experience: using the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) "moral community" to improve research ethics consultation.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB , 2008 Mar: 37-9; discussion W4-6

Social responsibility: conceptualization and embodiment in a school of nursing.
International journal of nursing education scholarship , 2008: Article28

Infant feeding and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: what lies beneath the dilemma?
Theoretical medicine and bioethics , 2008: 307-30

Developing a nursing database system in Kenya.
Health services research , 2007 Jun: 1389-405

Issues in biosecurity and biosafety.
Science (New York, N.Y.) , 2005 Jun 24: 1867-8

Limits on patient responsibility.
The Journal of medicine and philosophy , 2005 Apr: 189-206

The meanings of professional life: teaching across the health professions.
The Journal of medicine and philosophy , 2002 Aug: 475-91

Presentations

Presentations Title	Event	Location	Date
Visible Justice for the Next Generation: Shedding Light on Marginalized Populations in a Global Health	American Society for Bioethics and Humanities	Washington, DC	Oct. 15, 2009 - Oct. 8, 2009

Research Funding

Grant Title	Grantor	Award Date
Research participation with Wards of the State: Evaluating IRB and Investigator Perspectives	The Greenwall Foundation	July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010
A Long Term Perspective on Marine Biodiversity and Conservation: Interdisciplinary Fieldschool in the Lau Group, Fiji	National Science Foundation	June 1, 2009 - July 30, 2010
Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	May 17, 2008 - Aug. 31, 2009
The Burden of HIV/AIDS in the Next Generation: Understanding the Complex Experience of Orphans and Street Children in Lusaka, Zambia	Seattle Children's Foundation	May 1, 2008 - May 30, 2010
Global Justice in the 21st Century	Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington	March 1, 2008 - April 1, 2009
National Institutes for Health, Clinical and Translational Science Awards	Institute of Translational Health Sciences	Sept. 17, 2007 - May 31, 2012

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Seattle Children's Research Institute

C9S - 6 - Clinical and Translational Research
1900 - 9th Ave Bldg 1

Seattle, WA 98101

206-884-7877

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