Seattle Children’s Research Institute’s Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH, was at VUMC last week to deliver the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society’s Patricia Townsend Meador Lecture. Here, he poses with VUMC’s Keith Meador, MD, ThM, MPH.

Diekema is professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, professor of Bioethics and director of education at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics.