Elizabeth J. Chuang, M.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Critical Care)
- Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biomedical & Bioethics Research Training)
- Associate Professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine
- Director, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics
- Dr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Faculty Scholar in Biomedical Ethics
Area of research
- Clinician implicit bias, racial disparities in end of life care, health equity, research ethics, ethics in public health disasters, qualitative methods
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Location
- Montefiore Medical Center Center for Bioethics 75 East 208th Street Bronx, NY 10467
Research Profiles
Professional Interests
Education
Undergraduate: Vassar College (Psychology)
Medical School: NYU School of Medicine/Langone Medical Center
Residency: NYU School of Medicine/Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital (Internal Medicine)
New York City Department of Health (Public Health and Preventive Medicine)
Master's of Public Health: Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
Fellowship: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Hospice & Palliative Medicine)
Professional Activity
Dr. Elizabeth Chuang joined the faculty of the Department of Family and Social Medicine in 2013 after completing fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Montefiore. She practices hospice and palliative medicine on the inpatient consult service and palliative care inpatient unit at Montefiore Medical Center. In 2018, she joined the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics as a bioethics consultent.
Dr. Chuang's research interests include clinician implicit bias, reducing racial and ethnic disparities at the end of life and clinical communication adn decision-making.
Dr. Chuang also enjoys teaching medical students, residents, fellows and faculty principles of bioethics, research ethics and approaches to emotionally difficult communication tasks.
Current projects:
1. Implicit and explicit physician bias and decision-making for seriously ill patients
2. Qualitative exploration of physician decision-making for seriously ill patients
3. Using sequential decision-making modeling techniques to evaluate the performance of disaster triage protocols durinig the COVID19 surge
4. Code status and goals of care communication during the COVID19 surge
5. Racial and ethnic disparities in clinical ethics consultation.
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Selected Publications
Chuang E, Cuartas PA, Powell T, Gong MN. "We're Not Ready, But I Don't Think You're Ever Ready." Clinician Perspectives on Implementation of Crisis Standards of Care. AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2020;11(3):148-159. doi:10.1080/23294515.2020.1759731
Powell T, Chuang E. COVID in NYC: What We Could Do Better. Am J Bioeth. 2020;20(7):62-66. doi:10.1080/15265161.2020.1764146
Chuang E, Fiter RJ, Sanon OC, et al. Race and Ethnicity and Satisfaction With Communication in the Intensive Care Unit. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2020;37(10):823-829. doi:10.1177/1049909120916126
Chuang E, Lamkin R, Hope AA, Kim G, Burg J, Gong MN. “I Just Felt Like I Was Stuck in the Middle”: Physician Assistants’ Experiences Communicating with Terminally Ill Patients and their Families in the Acute Care Setting. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2017;54(1):27-34.
Chuang E, Hope AA, Allyn K, Szalkiewicz E, Gary B, Gong MN. Gaps in Provision of Primary and Specialty Palliative Care in the Acute Care Setting by Race and Ethnicity. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2017;54(5);645-653.