An expert in pediatric anesthesiology, Dr. Newton Seiden is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in anesthesiology. He has been an attending pediatric anesthesiologist and intensivist at Children’s Hospital since 1990 and is Chief of Staff at the Hospital. An active member of Children’s medical staff, Dr. Seiden has served on several Hospital committees including the Strategic Planning Committee, the Leadership Steering Committee, and the Multispecialty Peer Review Committee, and has served as Co-Chair of the Medication Patient Safety Committee. He has also served in an administrative capacity as Associate Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Medical Director for Transport in the PICU at Children’s.

Dr. Seiden’s professional activities include membership in several societies including the American College of Physicians Executives, the Society for Critical Care Medicine and the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. Dr. Seiden is an accomplished jazz bass player and has
a special interest in landscape photography.

A graduate from State University of New York, Dr. Seiden completed his internship and residency in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where he served as Chief Resident. He also completed a residency in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Dr. Seiden did a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

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