Tim Lahey

BIO

Tim Lahey is a physician, ethicist, educator, researcher & writer. He sees patients with HIV and other infections. A clinical ethicist and Director of Ethics at UVM Medical Center, Tim performs bedside clinical ethics consultations for patients and clinicians facing difficult decisions, guides a number of clinical ethics policies across the UVM Health Network, and has led ethics-related quality improvement efforts such as co-founding the Collaborative Care Response Team and Compassionate Care Rounds. As a researcher, Tim has written about immune protection from tuberculosis and HIV, innovations in medical education especially those related to social medicine, and health care ethics. An award-winning medical educator, Tim has designed and led a number of courses for undergraduates and medical students, and has led multiple curricular improvement efforts. He writes and oversees questions on the USMLE, is a member of the Healthcare Ethics Certification Commission, is on the national board of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, co-edits an ethics section in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, has written widely for popular press outlets such as The New York Times, and, in 2022, after extensive public communications about the COVID pandemic, was named Vermont Physician of the Year.

Courses

• 2005-2018, Course director, Clinical Infectious Diseases clerkship, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine
• 2011-2018, Course Director, Advanced Medical Sciences, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine 
• 2011-2018, Course Director, Scientific Basis of Medicine - Infectious Diseases, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine 
• 2013, 2015 Course Co-founder and Co-director, HIV through a Biosocial Lens, Dartmouth College 
• 2016, course Co-Founder and Co-Director, Rites of Passage, Dartmouth College 
• Since 2018, I teach a sequence of ethics sessions for medical students in nearly all courses in the Foundations curriculum as well as the Medicine Clerkship and chair the Professional Identity Formation Task Force

Publications

PubMed Publications

Awards and Achievements

• 1998, Ideal Physician Award, Duke University School of Medicine • 1999, Intern of the Year Award, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 2007, Young Investigator Award, Infectious Disease Society of America ERF/NFID Astellas
• 2009, Distinguished Lecturer, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, Class of 2011
• 2010, Clinical Science Teaching Award, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, graduating class of 2010 to the clinical science faculty member most distinguished for excellence in teaching medical students
• 2011, Induction into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society
• 2011, Almy Professor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• 2011, Distinguished Educator, Dartmouth Medical School Class of 2013
• 2011, Clinical Medicine Lecturer of the Year, Elected by Franklin Pierce PA School Class of 2011
• 2012, White Coat Ceremony Speaker, Franklin Pierce PA School Class of 2012
• 2012, Gold Humanism Scholar, Arnold P. Gold Foundation
• 2014, Induction into Geisel Academy of Master Educators, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine
• 2016, Public Voices Fellow, Dartmouth College chapter of Op-Ed Project
• 2017, Transition Day Speaker, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine Class of 2019
• 2009-2018, Farewell Speaker, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine Class
• 2018, C. Everett Koop Courage Award, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine
• 2019, Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Leadership Award, Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, NH/VT chapter
• 2022, Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Faculty Award, UVM Larner College of Medicine
• 2022, Physician of the Year Award, Vermont Medical Society