Seema Shah, JD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Washington
Faculty, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children’s
Seema Shah, JD, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington and faculty member in the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, is an expert in the fields of pediatrics and global health research ethics, as well as on ethical issues in the determination of death.
After attending Stanford University, she completed a two-year fellowship in bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and returned to Stanford for legal training. Before coming to Seattle Children’s, she was on faculty at the NIH in the Department of Bioethics, with a joint appointment at the Division of AIDS.