Elizabeth J. Chuang, M.D.

Dr. Elizabeth Chuang is the Director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics. The Center provides bioethics education, research and clinical support for Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  Dr. Chuang joined the faculty in 2013 after completing fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Montefiore. She joined the Bioethics Center in 2018 and became the Director in 2023.

Dr. Chuang's research interests include improving clinician communication with patients and families facing end-of-life choices, ethical approaches to learning healthcare systems, ethical implementation of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare, approaches to triage during disasters, and community engagement in research and in clinical ethics.

Dr. Chuang also enjoys teaching medical students, residents, fellows and faculty principles of bioethics, research ethics and approaches to emotionally difficult communication tasks. 
https://einsteinmed.edu/education/bioethics/

Current projects:

1. Analysis of verbal and nonverbal communication behavior by physicians during goals of care communication encounters
2. Employing Community Based Participatory Research to improve palliative care communication with patients and families in the Bronx
3. Using sequential decision-making modeling techniques to evaluate the performance of disaster triage protocols during the COVID19 surge