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
- 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
Professional Interests
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/
Selected Publications
Current projects:
- Analysis of verbal and nonverbal communication behavior by physicians during goals of care communication encounters
- Employing Community Based Participatory Research to improve palliative care communication with patients and families in the Bronx
- Using sequential decision-making modeling techniques to evaluate the performance of disaster triage protocols during the COVID19 surge