Professor
Seattle Children's Research Institute
University of Washington School of Medicine
Benjamin S. Wilfond MD, is an investigator at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care and a pulmonologist at Seattle Children's Hospital. He is professor, Division of Bioethics & Palliative Care and Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine.
In 1998, he founded the National Human Genome Research Institute Intramural Bioethics Core and its IRB. In 2014, he founded the Clinical Research Ethics Consultation Collaborative, a national network to advance research bioethics consultation practice. He established the Treuman Katz Center in 2006. He has more than 25 years of experience as a research ethics consultant and contributed to the development of this emerging practice through leadership, scholarship, and service. His current scholarship aims to support families making value-based decisions with balanced information about clinical care and research.
Dr. Wilfond a co-editor of Challenging Cases in Clinical Research Ethics, Taylor and Francis (2024). He is fellow of the Hastings Center and a member of the editorial boards of the Hastings Center Report and Ethics and Human Research.
Dr. Wilfond attended Muhlenberg College, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and completed his postgraduate training at the University of Wisconsin. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Arizona, National Institutes of Health, and Johns Hopkins University.