2024 Speakers

Learn more about our featured guests speaking at this year’s Pediatric Nursing Bioethics Conference and Pediatric Bioethics Conference.

**Indicates speaker is speaking at Pediatric Nursing Conference.

Georgina Campelia, PhD, HEC-C

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities
University of Washington School of Medicine

Ellen Clayton, MD, JD

Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Law
Professor of Health Policy
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and School of Law

I. Glenn Cohen, JD

James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law
Deputy Dean
Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics
Harvard Law School

Andrew Cooper, PhD

Principal Data Scientist
Seattle Children's

Kara Curry, MA, RN, HEC-C**

Senior Policy and Ethics Advisor
American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights

Denise Dudzinski, PhD

Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities
Professor, Division of Bioethics and Palliative Care
Chief, UW Medicine Ethics Consultation Service
Faculty, Center for Surgical Ethics, Department of Surgery
University of Washington School of Medicine

Director, Organizational Ethics, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Principal Investigator, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care, Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Sam Finlayson, MD, PhD

Pediatrics-Genetics Resident, Seattle Children’s
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine

Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS

Professor, The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Division Chief, Primary Care Pediatrics
Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Director, Paul M. Schyve, MD, Center for Bioethics
University of Rochester Medical Center

Leah Kroon, MA, MN, RN, CPHON**

Vice Chair, Ethics Committee
Co-Leader, Nursing Bioethics Liaison Program
Nursing Practice Specialist, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Infusion Services
Seattle Children’s

Peter Lee, PhD

Corporate VP
Microsoft Research and Incubations

Kate MacDuffie, PhD, MA

Assistant Professor, Division of Bioethics and Palliative Care
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine

Principal Investigator, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care
Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Melissa McCradden, PhD, MHSc

Women's and Children's Health Network Artificial Intelligence Director, Women's & Children's Hospital

The Hospital Research Foundation (THRF) Group Clinical Research Fellow in AI Ethics
Australian Institute for Machine Learning, University of Adelaide

Adjunct Scientist, SickKids Research Institute

Mjaye Leslie Mazwi, MD, MBChB

Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Washington School of Medicine

Division Head, Cardiac Critical Care Medicine Co-Director, Heart Center
Seattle Children’s Hospital

Tanu Mitra, PhD

Assistant Professor, The Information School
University of Washington

Martha Montello, PhD

Lecturer, Center for Bioethics and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Georgina Morley, PhD, MSc, RN, HEC-C**

Nurse Ethicist and Director, Center for Bioethics and Stanley S. Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence
Cleveland Clinic

Tiffany Munzer, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, MM Pediatrics - Developmental and Behavioral Health
University of Michigan

Lucia D. Wocial, PhD, FAAN, RN, HEC-C**

Senior Clinical Ethicist and Assistant Director, John J. Lynch Center for Ethics
MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC)

Adjunct Professor
Georgetown University School of Nursing

Ian Wolfe, PhD, MA, RN, HEC-C**

Director of Ethics, Clinical Ethics Department
Children’s Minnesota

Community Instructor Faculty, Department of Pediatrics
University of Minnesota Medical School

Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Pediatric Ethics