Medical Affairs
Medical Affairs
The Seattle Children’s Medical Affairs department supports the full lifecycle of Seattle Children’s professional staff – from initial appointment and privileging to ongoing governance, quality oversight, and member support. Medical Affairs partners with medical staff leadership and hospital administration to support safe, high quality patient care.
Medical Affairs’ mission is to support an excellent provider experience and enhance the connection to Seattle Children’s while promoting the wellness and involvement of a resilient and diverse Medical Staff who delivers high quality, equitable and safe patient care.
Our core areas of support include:
- Credentialing
- Privileging
- Delegated credentialing (as applicable)
- Medical Staff Governance and Officer Support
- Member Engagement and Integration
- Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
- Provider Assessment and Clinical Excellence (PACE)
- Provider Information Management System
- Medical Direction
- Credentialed Provider Observerships (as applicable)
Our Medical Staff
The Active Medical Staff at Seattle Children's Hospital is comprised of approximately 2,000 doctors, dentists, and advanced practice providers.
Our advanced practice providers include:
- Acupuncturists;
- Psychologists
- Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (ARNP)
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA)
- Licensed Behavior Analysts
- Mental Health Therapists
- Optometrists
- Certified Physician Assistants (PA-C).
Together, these members represent the full spectrum of pediatric medical and surgical specialties as well as general pediatrics, fetal medicine, and family practice.
Seattle Children’s staff
Through our formal affiliation with the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM), most of our hospital-based physicians hold appointments at the UWSOM and are employed by Children's University Medical Group (CUMG), the Seattle Children's and UWSOM practice plan.
Community medical staff
Seattle Children’s maintains an open medical staff that includes who maintain privileges at the hospital. Community members frequently refer to patients for specialized care and may round on their hospital patients.
We also collaborate regionally through initiatives such as the to support coordinated, high-quality pediatric care across diverse care settings.Seattle Children's medical departments include Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Dentistry, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Medicine, Orthopedics; Radiology, Rehabilitation Medicine, and Surgery.
Within the Departments of Medicine and Surgery are divisions representing a full spectrum of subspecialties, which you can explore in the Clinics section of our site.
Medical Staff Leadership
Seattle Children's medical staff leadership includes medical staff officers, department directors, division heads, inpatient services directors, medical education directors and hospital committee chairs.
Elected Medical Staff Officers
Susan Shenoi, MD
Medical Staff President
Seenu Susarla, MD
Medical Staff President-Elect
Ramesh Iyer, MD
Medical Staff Immediate Past President
Michael McMullan, MD
Medical Staff Advisor
Administrative leadership
The officers of the medical staff include the chief physician executive, chief medical officer, president, president-elect, immediate past president (when applicable) and the elected medical staff advisor(s).
The officers, excluding the chief physician executive and chief medical officer, are elected by vote of the active medical staff and take office effective October 1. Their primary roles are to provide leadership and guidance to the members of the medical staff and promote effective communication among the medical staff, Medical Executive Committee, administration and the board of trustees.
Jeffrey Ojemann, MD
Chief Physician Executive
Ruth McDonald, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Kim Stone, MD
VP Medical Affairs
Governance
The medical staff governance structure supports the medical staff purpose through the Medical Executive Committee and a network of quality and oversight committees. Voting membership includes significant representation – at least one-third – from community providers, alongside Children’s University Medical Group (CUMG) and Seattle Children’s-employed providers – reflecting our open medical staff model.
