Dr. Joel Stanford Tieder, MD

Joel S. Tieder, MD, MPH, is pediatric hospitalist and clinical assistant professor at Seattle Children’s Hospital’s hospitalist program and for the Department of Pediatrics at the University Of Washington School Of Medicine. At Seattle Children’s he serves as an attending on the Inpatient Medical Service, where he provides specialized care for hospitalized children and serves as an educator for residents and medical students.

He is also a member of the clinical effectiveness team at Seattle Children’s and serves on the executive council of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) network, specializing in guideline development and implementation, collaborative quality improvement research, and the application of the scientific method to improve the quality of care for patients locally and nationally. He obtained his MPH in epidemiology from the University of Washington and is researching quality indicators and other ways to determine and implement …best practice for hospital systems.