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. Qualitative exploration of physician decision-making for seriously ill patients

2. Using sequential decision-making modeling techniques to evaluate the performance of disaster triage protocols durinig the COVID19 surge

3. Code status and goals of care communication during the COVID19 surge

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