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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

Should children be told they have a serious illness?

July 2, 2009

Moderator: Maureen C. Kelley, PhD
Assistant Professor, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics

Case Presenter: Ann Melvin, MD
Associate Professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Washington Medical School

Commentator: Alan Fleischman, MD
Medical Director and Senior Vice President, March of Dimes, White Plains, NY



Past Grand Rounds

January 8, 2009
Sconyers/Godfrey Grand Rounds

Parental requests for cosmetic surgery in children with profound developmental disabilities

October 2, 2008
Treuman Katz Lecture

Growth Hormone for Non-GH Deficient Children, or What's Wrong With the American Health Care System?

August 14, 2008

Do physicians have obligations to report children's infectious risk to schools?

June 5, 2008

Withholding Fluids and Nutrition in Children With Progressive Neurological Deterioration

February 14, 2008

When Should Adolescents be Permitted to Refuse Live-saving Treatments?

December 20, 2007
Treuman Katz Lecture

Two Cheers for a Two-Tiered Health Care System

October 4, 2007

Parental Discretion to Withdraw a Ventilator from a Child with Congenital Central Hypoventilation

June 7, 2007

Discharging a Child When Their Local Medical Care is Not Adequate: Should There be a Double Standard for the Developing World?

March 1, 2007

Attenuating Growth in Children With Profound Developmental Disability

September 28, 2006

Surgically Shaping Children: Ethical Dilemmas