Dr. Stapleton is the Ford/Morgan Endowed Chair and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Associate Dean at the University of Washington School of Medicine, as well as the Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President at Seattle Children’s. Dr. Stapleton received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Kansas. He has over 250 scientific publications.Dr. Stapleton is President-elect of the American Pediatric Society and Past-President of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs. He chairs the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the National Study of Kidney Disease in Children for the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK).  He was honored as the Distinguished Medical Alumnus by the University of Kansas in 2010 and as the recipient of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology Founder’s Award in 2011.