Mithya Lewis-Newby, MD, MPH

Critical Care, Bioethics Consultation Service, Cardiology

On staff since August 2008

Academic Title: Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; Associate Professor, Division of Bioethics; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine

Research Center: Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care

"Having a child in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit can be one of the most stressful times in a family's life. I am honored to work alongside amazing team members to provide children and families with the best possible medical care. I seek to understand the individual stories of each child and family and find ways to provide support uniquely geared to their needs. Communication is the essential foundation of family-centered care and great medical care. I am particularly honored to be able to guide and support families through complex medical decision-making related to critical heart issues."

• Biography

  Mithya Lewis-Newby, MD, MPH, is an attending physician in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Seattle Children's Hospital. She is also the Chair of the Seattle Children's Hospital Ethics Committee. She holds a faculty appointment at the University of Washington School of Medicine as an Associate Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Bioethics and Humanities. Within the Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Lewis-Newby is appointed to both the divisions of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine and Bioethics and Palliative Care. She is faculty in the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care. Dr. Lewis-Newby's primary research interests relate to ethical issues that arise in the pediatric critical care setting. She also serves on the Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Other interests include family-centered-care, complex decision-making, communication, and supporting end-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit.

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• Awards and Honors

  Award Name	Award Description	Awarded By	Award Date
  Presidential Citation Award for Outstanding Contributions to SCCM Society for Critical Care Medicine		Society for Critical Care Medicine	2017

• Publications

  Manuscripts in Refereed Journals

  • Lewis-Newby M, Berkman E, Diekema D, Bhat A, Clark J
    Ethical Challenges at the Frontiers of Medical Care for Children with Congenital Heart Disease in the U.S.
    Curr Treat Options Pediatr, 2023
  • Kim D, Berkman ER, Clark JD, Saifee NH, Diekema DS, Lewis-Newby M
    Parental Refusals of Blood Transfusions from COVID-19 Vaccinated Donors for Children Needing Cardiac Surgery
    Narrat Inq Bioeth, 2023
  • Berkman ER, Hsu EK, Clark JD, Lewis-Newby M, Dick AAS, Diekema DS, Wightman AG
    An ethical analysis of obesity as a contraindication to pediatric liver transplant candidacy.
    36997027 American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2023 June : 23(6)736-743
  • Berkman ER, Richardson KL, Clark JD, Dick AAS, Lewis-Newby M, Diekema DS, Wightman AG
    An ethical analysis of obesity as a contraindication of pediatric kidney transplant candidacy.
    35488137 Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2023 Feb. : 38(2)345-356
  • Clark JD, Albers EL, Albert JE, Berkman ER, Englund JA, Farris RWD, Johnson BA, Lewis-Newby M, McGuire J, Rogers M, Thompson HM, Wagner TA, Wells C, Yanay O, Zerr DM, Limaye AP
    SARS-CoV-2 RNA positive pediatric organ donors: A case report.
    36518025 Pediatric transplantation, 2022 Dec 14 : e14452 PMCID:PMC9878170
  • Clark JD, Baden HP, Berkman ER, Bourget E, Brogan TV, Di Gennaro JL, Doorenbos AZ, McMullan DM, Roberts JS, Turnbull JM, Wilfond BS, Lewis-Newby M, Seattle Ethics in ECLS (SEE) Consortium
    Ethical Considerations in Ever-Expanding Utilization of ECLS: A Research Agenda.
    35664885 Frontiers in pediatrics, 2022 : 10896232 PMCID:PMC9160718
  • Berkman E, Wightman A, Friedland-Little JM, Albers EL, Diekema D, Lewis-Newby M
    An ethical analysis of obesity as a determinant of pediatric heart transplant candidacy.
    33179426 Pediatric transplantation, 2021 May : 25(3)e13913
  • Lewis-Newby M, Berkman E, Diekema DS, Clark JD
    Heroics at the End of Life in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care: The Role of the Intensivist in Supporting Ethical Decision Around Innovative Surgical Interventions
    Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine, 2021
  • Benedetti DJ, Lewis-Newby M, Roberts JS, Diekema DS
    Pandemics and Beyond: Considerations When Personal Risk and Professional Obligations Converge.
    33656454 The Journal of clinical ethics, 2021 : 32(1)20-34
  • Neubauer K, Williams EP, Donohue PK, Weiss EM, Lewis-Newby M, Boss RD
    Diagnosis to death: family experiences of paediatric heart disease.
    32829727 Cardiology in the young, 2020 Nov. : 30(11)1672-1678
  • Lewis-Newby M, Sellers DE, Meyer EC, Solomon MZ, Zurakowski D, Truog RD
    Location of Clinician-Family Communication at the End of Life in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Clinician Perception of Communication Quality.
    32182154 Journal of palliative medicine, 2020 Aug. : 23(8)1052-1059 PMCID:PMC8024375
  • Berkman ER, Clark JD, Diekema DS, Lewis-Newby M
    "We Can Do Anything but We Can't Do Everything": Exploring the Perceived Impact of International Pediatric Programs on U.S. PICUs.
    31803696 Frontiers in pediatrics, 2019 : 7470 PMCID:PMC6873788
  • Morrison W, Clark JD, Lewis-Newby M, Kon AA
    Titrating Clinician Directiveness in Serious Pediatric Illness.
    30385625 Pediatrics, 2018 Nov. : 142(Suppl 3)S178-S186
  • Lewis-Newby M, Clark JD, Butt WW, Dryden-Palmer K, Parshuram CS, Truog RD
    When a Child Dies in the PICU Despite Ongoing Life Support.
    30080805 Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2018 Aug. : 19(8S Suppl 2)S33-S40
  • Davidson JE, Aslakson RA, Long AC, Puntillo KA, Kross EK, Hart J, Cox CE, Wunsch H, Wickline MA, Nunnally ME, Netzer G, Kentish-Barnes N, Sprung CL, Hartog CS, Coombs M, Gerritsen RT, Hopkins RO, Franck LS, Skrobik Y, Kon AA, Scruth EA, Harvey MA, Lewis-Newby M, White DB, Swoboda SM, Cooke CR, Levy MM, Azoulay E, Curtis JR
    Guidelines for Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal, Pediatric, and Adult ICU.
    27984278 Critical care medicine, 2017 Jan. : 45(1)103-128
  • Kelen GD, Sauer L, Clattenburg E, Lewis-Newby M, Fackler J
    Pediatric Disposition Classification (Reverse Triage) System to Create Surge Capacity.
    25816253 Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 2015 June : 9(3)283-90
  • Lewis-Newby M, Wicclair M, Pope T, Rushton C, Curlin F, Diekema D, Durrer D, Ehlenbach W, Gibson-Scipio W, Glavan B, Langer RL, Manthous C, Rose C, Scardella A, Shanawani H, Siegel MD, Halpern SD, Truog RD, White DB, ATS Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee
    An official American Thoracic Society policy statement: managing conscientious objections in intensive care medicine.
    25590155 American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2015 Jan 15 : 191(2)219-27
  • Johnson EM, Diekema DS, Lewis-Newby M, King MA
    Pediatric triage and allocation of critical care resources during disaster: Northwest provider opinion.
    25247776 Prehospital and disaster medicine, 2014 Oct. : 29(5)455-60
  • Burns JP, Sellers DE, Meyer EC, Lewis-Newby M, Truog RD
    Epidemiology of death in the PICU at five U.S. teaching hospitals.
    24979486 Critical care medicine, 2014 Sept. : 42(9)2101-8 PMCID:PMC4134743
  • Doorenbos AZ, Starks H, Bourget E, McMullan DM, Lewis-Newby M, Rue TC, Lindhorst T, Aisenberg E, Oman N, Curtis JR, Hays R, Seattle Ethics in ECLS (SEE) Consortium, Clark JD, Baden HP, Brogan TV, Di Gennaro JL, Mazor R, Roberts JS, Turnbull J, Wilfond BS
    Examining palliative care team involvement in automatic consultations for children on extracorporeal life support in the pediatric intensive care unit.
    23540309 Journal of palliative medicine, 2013 May : 16(5)492-5 PMCID:PMC3705963
  • Lewis-Newby M, Curtis JR,
    Family Centered Care at the End of a Child's Life: We Must Get This Right
    Minerva Anestesiol, 2013 : 79(12)1321-3
  • Reid J, Stone K, Brown J, Caglar D, Kobayashi A, Lewis-Newby M, Partridge R, Seidel K, Quan L
    The Simulation Team Assessment Tool (STAT): development, reliability and validation.
    22198422 Resuscitation, 2012 July : 83(7)879-86
  • Lewis-Newby M, Curtis JR, Martin DP, Engelberg RA
    Measuring family satisfaction with care and quality of dying in the intensive care unit: does patient age matter?
    22107108 Journal of palliative medicine, 2011 Dec. : 14(12)1284-90 PMCID:PMC3263487

  Book Chapters

  • Berkman E, Clark JD, Lewis-Newby M
    Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) and Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
    Professional, Ethical, Legal and Educational Lessons in Medicine: A Problem-Based Learning Approach, 2023
  • Lewis-Newby M, Berkman E, Clark JD
    "Medical Futility" and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies
    Professional, Ethical, Legal and Educational Lessons in Medicine: A Problem-Based Learning Approach, 2023
  • Lewis-Newby M, Berkman E, Diekema D
    Ethics in Pediatric Intensive Care
    Pediatric Critical Care, 6th edition, 2021
  • Clark JD, Lewis-Newby M, Kon AA, Morrison W
    A Spectrum of Clinical Directiveness in Collaborative Decision Making
    The Ethics of Shared Decision Making, 2021
  • Lewis-Newby M, Diekema D
    Ethics in Pediatric Intensive Care
    Pediatric Critical Care, 5th editions, 2017
  • Ridling D, Lewis-Newby M, Lindsey D
    Family Centered Care
    Pediatric Critical Care, 4th Edition, 2011

  Published Books, Videos, Software, etc.

  • Lewis-Newby M, Wilson KC
    Managing Conscientious Objections Pocket Guide
    American Thoracic Society, 2015

• Presentations

  Presentation Title	Event	Location	Date
  Directed Donations and COVID-19 Unvaccinated Donors: Ethical Framework and Practical Considerations	Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies Annual Meeting	Nashville, TN	2023
  Supporting the CICU Team through the Moral Uncertainty of Innovation	8th World Congress on Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery	Washington, DC	2023
  Assessing and Managing a Cyanotic Baby: Is It Critical Congenital Heart Disease?	University of Montana Western Montana Area Health Education Center Medical Conference	Virtual Meeting	2022
  Integrating Palliative Care into the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit	Third International Conference of Palliative Care	Virtual Meeting	2022
  Ethics of Pediatric Destination Ventricular Assist Device: Is It a Bridge Too Far?	Society of Critical Care Medicine International Critical Care Congress	San Francisco, CA	2022
  Heroics in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Balancing hope and harm	Tenth International Conference on Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine	Virtual Meeting	2021
  The Role of the Bioethicist in Pediatric Heart Transplant	International Pediatric Heart Transplant Summit	Seattle, WA	2017
  End of Life Decisions and Palliative Care in ECLS	Children's National Medical Center 30th Annual Extracorporeal Life Support Conference	Keystone, CO	2014
  Is There Room for Conscientious Objection in Intensive Care Medicine?	Harborview Medical Center Ethics Forum	Seattle, WA	2014
  Ethics in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine	Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Board Review Course	Chicago, IL	2014
  Managing Conscientious Objection in the ICU: American Thoracic Society Recommendations	American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 16th Annual Conference	San Diego, CA	2014
  Ethical Framework for Pediatric Altered Standards of Care	National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response	Baltimore, MD	2013
  The Limits of Parental Decision Making in the PICU - Session Moderator	9th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference	Seattle, WA	2013
  Is There Room for Conscientious Objection in Critical Care Medicine?	American Thoracic Society International Conference	Philadelphia, PA	2013
  Conscientious Objection and Moral Distress Panelist	8th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference	Seattle, WA	2012
  Ethical Struggles in Extracorporeal Life Support	Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) 23rd Annual Conference	Seattle, WA	2012
  Blue Babies, White Knuckles - Diagnosis and Management of Heart Disease in Neonates	Seattle Children's Hospital Regional Neonatal Grand Rounds	Seattle, WA	2012
  Ethical Considerations of Disaster Planning	Annual Ron Lemire Northwest Pediatric Critical Care Symposium	Seattle, WA	2012
  Caring for Dying Children	Harborview Medical Center Palliative Care Conference	Seattle, WA	2009
  Caring for the Care Provider	Annual Ron Lemire Northwest Pediatric Critical Care Symposium	Seattle, WA	2009
  Physician's Journey	Seattle Children's Hospital Annual Memorial Service	Seattle, WA	2009
  When Children Die: Special Challenges and Ethical Considerations - Parent Panel Moderator	Annual Ron Lemire Northwest Pediatric Critical Care Symposium	Seattle, WA	2009
  ECMO Ethics Panel	19th Annual Specialist Education for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Conference	Seattle, WA	2009

• Research Funding

  Grant Title	Grantor	Amount	Award Date
  Towards Improving End-of-Life Care in the Pediatric ICU	National Institutes of Health	$50,098	2009 - 2011