Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds are presented weekly on Thursdays at 8 a.m. at Seattle Children’s Hospital's main campus in the Wright Auditorium (use the Giraffe entrance). Each year the Center for Pediatric Bioethics sponsors three to four presentations that focus on ethical issues in medicine. Three are case presentations sponsored by the Sconyers/Godfrey endowment and the fourth is a Treuman Katz lecture which deals less with a specific case and more with ethical issues in a given area.

Visiting physicians may use Giraffe parking (PDF) .

Upcoming Grand Rounds

There are no upcoming grand rounds.

Past Grand Rounds

Parental Requests for Reconstructive Surgery in Children with Profound Developmental Disabilities

1.8.09
Sconyers/Godfrey Ethics Grand Rounds Moderator: Douglas J Opel, MD Bioethics Fellow, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics Acting Instructor, Division of Bioethics, Department of Pediatrics Case Presenters: Carrie L Heike, MD MS Pediatrician, Craniofacial Center Acting Assistant Professor, Division of Craniofacial Medicine, Department of Pediatrics Richard Hooper, MD Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Craniofacial Center Associate Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery Commentator: Jeffrey P Brosco, MD PhD Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Chair, Pediatric Bioethics Committee, Holtz Children’s Hospital, Jackson Health Systems Director, Clinical Services, Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami
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Growth Hormone for Non-GH Deficient Children, or What's Wrong With the American Health Care System?

10.2.08
Norman Fost, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics; Director, Program in Medical Ethics; Vice Chair, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin
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Do Physicians Have Obligations to Report Children's Infectious Risk to Schools?

8.14.08
Ron Gibson MD PhD; Professor of Pediatrics, UW, Pediatric Pulmonary, Seattle Children’s Bonnie Steinbock PhD; Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY Ben Wilfond, MD, Director, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics - Moderator Danielle Zerr, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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Withholding Fluids and Nutrition in Children with Progressive Neurological Deterioration

6.5.08
Moderator: Douglas J. Opel, MD Bioethics Fellow, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s; Acting instructor, Division of Bioethics, UW Case Presentation: Mark Hannibal, MD Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Genetics and Developmental Medicine, UW Commentator: Joel Frader, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; Division Head, General Academic Pediatrics, Children’s Memorial Hospital
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When Should Adolescents Be Permitted to Refuse Life-Saving Treatments?

2.14.08
Maureen Kelly PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UW Julie Park MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UW Lainie Friedman Ross MD PhD; Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Ethics Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine; Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago
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Two Cheers for a Two-Tiered Health Care System

12.20.07
John Lantos, MD; Professor of Pediatrics Associate Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
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Parental Discretion to Withdraw a Ventilator from a Child with Congenital Central Hypoventilation

10.4.07
Benjamin Wilfond, MD; Director, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children's; Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Div. of Bioethics, UW Maida Chen, MD; Assist. Professor, Pediatric Pulmonary, UW Alexander A. Kon, MD; Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Bioethics, UC Davis
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Discharging a Child When Their Local Medical Care is Not Adequate: Should There be a Double Standard for the Developing World?

6.7.07
Christine Grady, RN, PhD, FAAN Head, Section on Human Subjects Research, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Patrick Healey, MD Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, UW; Chief, Pediatric Transplant
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Attenuating Growth in Children With Profound Developmental Disability

3.1.07
Doug Diekema, MD, MPH Professor, Pediatrics, UW; Co-Chair, Children’s Institutional Review Board Dan Gunther, MD Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, UW Jeffrey Botkin, MD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Ethics; Associate Vice President for Research, University of Utah
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Surgically Shaping Children: Ethical Dilemmas

9.28.06
Cassandra Aspinall, MSW, LICSW Senior Social Worker, Craniofacial Center, Seattle Children’s Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
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