Seema K. Shah, JD, Associate Professor in Pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School, Founder’s Board Professor of Medical Ethics, and Associate Director of Research Ethics at Lurie Children’s Hospital, is an expert in the fields of pediatric ethics, global health research ethics, and the ethics of controlled human infection studies. She received her legal training at Stanford University, then clerked in a federal district court. Prof. Shah was previously on faculty at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital and at the NIH Clinical Center Department of Bioethics. She has chaired an NIH committee on ethical considerations in conducting human challenge trials for vaccines.
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Seema K. Shah, JD, Associate Professor in Pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School, Founder’s Board Professor of Medical Ethics, and Associate Director of Research Ethics at Lurie Children’s Hospital, is an expert in the fields of pediatric ethics, global health research ethics, and the ethics of controlled human infection studies. She received her legal training at Stanford University, then clerked in a federal district court. Prof. Shah was previously on faculty at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital and at the NIH Clinical Center Department of Bioethics. She has chaired an NIH committee on ethical considerations in conducting human challenge trials for vaccines.