Benjamin S. Wilfond BS, MD

Benjamin S. Wilfond, MD, is the director of the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's Hospital and professor and chief of the Division of Bioethics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is also adjunct professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities.

Dr. Wilfond is the chief of the Bioethics Consultation Service and attends in the Chest Clinic in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine. He is member of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Steering Committee and coordinates the ITHS Research Bioethics Consult Service. He earned his MD from the Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School. He completed his pediatric residency and his fellowship in pediatric pulmonology and medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Arizona, National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University.