Christine Gleason, M.D.
Fellowship Year(s): 2016-2017
Profession: Physician
Specialty: Pediatrics-Subspecialty
Fellowship Details:
Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor of Global Health
University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital
Rep Pelosi (D-CA)-House Minority Leader
New York
At time of Fellowship
Christine Gleason is a neonatologist, professor of pediatrics, and adjunct professor of global health at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital. She previously served as academic director of the division of neonatology, which is dedicated to improving the outcomes of pregnancy through research, education, and clinical care for critically ill newborns. Her research focuses on the effects of drugs such as alcohol and narcotics on the developing brain.
Gleason is currently participating in a new multidisciplinary International Neonatal Consortium, which is dedicated to the development and labeling of medications for neonates. In addition to research, teaching, and clinical practice in the neonatal intensive care unit, she has served as neonatal consultant to the March of Dimes Foundation, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Pediatric Society, member and chair of the neonatology sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics, and co-editor of the neonatology textbook Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn. She writes and lectures extensively and is the author of a memoir, Almost Home: Stories of Hope and the Human Spirit in the Neonatal ICU.
Gleason received a BS from Brown University and an MD from the University of Rochester. She completed pediatric residency training at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, and neonatal fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco/Mt. Zion Hospital. Prior to her faculty appointment at the University of Washington, she was a member of the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and served as director of the division of neonatology at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore.
Current Info:
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington
Health Care Quality;Health Care Workforce;Health Care/Health Policy Advocacy;Health Reform;Health Services Research;Mental Health/Substance Abuse;Private Heath Insurance
Since Fellowship:
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.
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