Christine Gleason, M.D.

Christine Gleason, MD, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Dr. Christine Gleason is a neonatologist and Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of
Medicine. She served as Division Director of Neonatology at Johns Hopkins from 1990 - 1997 and as Division Chief of
Neonatology at the University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital from 1997 - 2015. She stepped down as Division Chief
in 2015 to pursue new personal and professional opportunities, including her selection as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Policy Fellow (2016-18) where her year-long Congressional placement was in the Office of the Democratic Leader,
Nancy Pelosi. Dr. Gleason has held a number of national leadership positions including President of the Perinatal Research
Society, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Pediatric Society, Chair (and now Medical Editor) of the American Board of
Pediatrics' Neonatal Sub-Board, member (and President) of the Board of Directors of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Inc. and
President of the Board of Trustees of the Pediatric Research Foundation. She is also an inaugural member of the Child Health
Advisory Council of CareerPhysician, an academic pediatric leadership development & executive search firm.
Dr. Gleason received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her medical degree from the University of
Rochester. She completed her pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital/Case Western Reserve and her
neonatology fellowship at Mt. Zion Hospital/University of California San Francisco. She joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in
1985, becoming Division Director of Neonatology there in 1990. In 1997 she moved to the University of Washington/Seattle
Children's as Neonatal Division Chief where she focused on growing the division's clinical services, moving her NIH-funded
research work forward and re-invigorating the neonatal educational programs. In addition to authoring numerous scientific
articles, book chapters and editing textbooks, she wrote a memoir of her years as a trainee and junior faculty member (Almost
Home) which was published in 2009. She has received several awards including the Seattle Children's Pediatric Housestaff's
Faculty Teaching Award and the UW Medicine Award for Excellence in Mentoring of Women and Minorities.