Evolving Dimensions in the Pediatrician-Family-Patient Relationship, New Anaphylaxis Definition – Episode 261

Dr. Douglas Diekema is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Diekema practiced pediatric emergency medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital where he also serves as the Chair of the Institutional Review Board. He founded the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Research Institute in 2004 and currently serves as its Director of Education. He is past-chair of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics, past-chair of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Subjects Protections (SACHRP) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a former board member of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities. He is currently a member of the FDA’s Pediatric Advisory Committee. Dr. Diekema is the author of numerous scholarly publications in medical ethics and pediatric emergency medicine and an editor of Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-based Textbook. He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and was honored by the American Academy of Pediatrics as the 2014 recipient of the William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence.

Dr. Douglas Opel is a professor in the Division of Bioethics and General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, and at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is a general pediatrician at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington Medical Center. His research interests include medical decision-making, communication science and public health ethics.

Dr. Julie Wang is a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on clinical trials developing new treatments for food allergies as well as studies aimed at better understanding how patients and their families manage food allergies and anaphylaxis in schools and other community settings. As a member of the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters and immediate-past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Section on Allergy and Immunology of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Wang has co-authored pediatric and allergy guidelines on food allergy and anaphylaxis. She is also a member of the board of directors of the America Board of Allergy and Immunology and Chair of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology Annual Meeting Programming Committee. She has published over 170 articles in scientific journals and has authored over 20 book chapters in major pediatric and allergy textbooks. Dr. Wang is on the editorial board for the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. She is co-program director for the Mount Sinai Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Training Program.