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On staff since October 1990
Clinical Director, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics (Interim); Co-Chair, Institutional Review Board Committee
Professor, Pediatrics, Emergency Services; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Medical History and Ethics
Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development
Primary office location
B-5520 - Emergency Medicine
4800 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
(206)987-2222
Pediatric Emergency MedicinePediatrics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Pediatrics
Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Pediatric ethics, Wilderness medicine
Bioethics
Diekema DS. Parental Refusals of Medical Treatment: The Harm Principle as Threshold for State Intervention. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2004; 25(4): 243-264 Diekema DS and Committee on Bioethics, American Academy of Pediatrics. Clinical Report: Responding to parental refusals for vaccination of children. Pediatrics 2005; 115 (5): 1428-1431. Gunther DF and DS Diekema. The use of high-dose estrogen to attenuate growth in severely developmentally disabled children: medical and ethical considerations. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2006; 160 (10): 1013-1017. Salas H, Aziz Z, Villareale N, Diekema DS. The Research and Family Liaison: Enhancing Informed Consent. IRB 2008; 30(4): 1-8. Opel DJ, Diekema DS, Marcuse EM. A Critique of Criteria for Evaluating Vaccines for Inclusion in Mandatory School Immunization Programs. Pediatrics 2008; 122(2): e504-e510.
Chair of the AAP Committee on Bioethics (as of July 1, 2005) Seattle Magazine Top Doctor, 2006 Appointed to the Ethics Committee of the American Board of Pediatrics, 2006
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