Treuman Katz Grand Rounds

Treuman Katz, President Emeritus, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Treuman Katz is president emeritus of Seattle Children’s. He retired in September 2005 as president and chief executive officer.

Under Katz’s leadership, key partnerships and joint ventures resulted in the successful creation and development of mission-based initiatives that moved Seattle Children’s into national prominence. Prior to his tenure at Seattle Children’s, Katz served as a top executive at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a 1,000-bed hospital in Los Angeles, for 11 years.

As a tribute to Katz’s strong leadership and distinguished tenure at Seattle Children’s for 26 years, and his efforts to create an environment that recognizes all of the complex ethical issues associated with research, the hospital board of trustees named the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care in his honor, including the establishment of the Treuman Katz Grand Rounds. With Seattle Children’s expanded research mission, aimed at preventing, curing and elimination pediatric disease, his vision for the center has become especially important.

Past Presentations

• 2024: Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil. Emory University. Promoting Equity for Women in Academic Medicine: Reflections on Ethics and Evidence
• 2023: R. Alta Charo, JD, University of Wisconsin. In Utero Genome Editing: Potential and Politics
• 2022: Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH. University of Michigan. Bonded Justice: Navigating the Limits of Equity
• 2021: Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil. University of Michigan. Promoting Equity for Women in Academic Medicine: An Evidence Based Approach
• 2020: Denise Dudzinski, MD, PhD, University of Washington. Reaching for COVID-19 Equity
• 2019: Robert Macauley, MD, Oregon Health & Science University. Responding to Parental Requests for Potentially Non-Beneficial Treatment
• 2018: Nancy S. Jecker, PhD, University of Washington. Ending Midlife Bias: Ethics for Pediatrics and the Rest of Life
• 2017: Jennifer Kett, MD, MA, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, Tacoma, Washington: “Some People Here Don’t Think He Has a Soul”: Navigating Parental Requests for Medical and Surgical Interventions in Children With Severe Neurocognitive Impairment
• 2016: Christine Grady, RN, PhD, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Broad Consent for Research With Biospecimens and Data: Ethical and Practical Considerations
• 2015: Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, University of Chicago. Ethical and Policy Issues in Newborn Screening for Lysosomal Storage Diseases
• 2014: Steven Joffee, MD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. The Ethics of Early-Phase Trials in Children With Cancer
• 2013: Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, Vanderbilt University. Lessons Learned From Biobanking
• 2012: Ruth Macklin, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth?  
• 2011: Albert R. Jonsen, PhD, California Pacific Medical Center. The Baby Will Tell Us
• 2010: Thomas H. Murray, PhD, The Hastings Center. Why We Play: Ethics, Drugs and the Future of Sport
• 2009: Larry R. Churchill, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Faith, Hope and Informed Consent: Ethical Challenges in Maternal-Fetal Research
• 2008: Norman C. Fost, MD, MPH, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. Growth Hormone for Non–GH-Deficient Children, or, What’s Wrong With the American Healthcare System?
• 2007: John Lantos, MD, University of Chicago. Two Cheers for a Two-Tiered Health Care System (no video available)