F. Bruder Stapleton, MD, Chair

Department of Pediatrics
University of Washington
Health Sciences, RR314
Box 356320
1959 NE Pacific St.
Seattle, WA 98195-6320

Seattle Children's Hospital
4800 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105

"The soul is healed by being with children."
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mission of the Department of Pediatrics

Through excellence, innovation and collaboration, we will improve the health of all children and adolescents by educating the pediatric and physician leaders of the future, advancing research, advocating for children and providing the nation's best primary and specialty pediatric clinical care. In partnership with our health care and academic institutions, we will create a collegial environment where academic faculty can reach their personal and professional goals.

Departmental Highlights

US News and World Report ranks UW Pediatrics sixth in the country, UW first in primary care

Dr. Lindsay Fox, Pediatric Resident, awarded a grant from the UW Housestaff Association to support her work on malaria in Malawi, "Plasma pHRP2 levels as Predictor of Malaria Severity"

New Rheumatology-Dermatology clinic started by Drs. Sarah Ringold and Heather Brandling-Bennett

New WWAMI medical student site in Jackson, WY to take students starting July 2010

Michael Bamshad, MD, ARRA - NHLBI Lung Cohorts Sequencing Project, administered by the NHLBI Division of Lung Diseases, Airway Biology and Disease Branch (click link for video)