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

• Professionalism, Communications and Reflection
• Doctoring in Vermont
• Foundations of Clinical Sciences
• Attacks and Defenses
• Nutrition, Metabolism and Gastroenterology
• Medical Neurosciences
• Convergence
• Prep for Practice
• Medicine clerkship
• Infectious diseases elective

Publications

PubMed Publications

Awards and Achievements

• 1996, Eva Salber Award for Community Service, Duke University School of Medicine
• 1997, Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Duke University School of Medicine • 1998, Dean’s Recognition Award, Duke University School of Medicine
• 1998, Ideal Physician Award, Duke University School of Medicine
• 1999, Intern of the Year Award, LDS Hospital
• 2009, Distinguished Lecturer, Elected by Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine Class of 2011
• 2010, Clinical Science Teaching Award, Elected by 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, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine
• 2011, Almy Professor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• 2011, Distinguished Educator, Elected by Dartmouth Medical School Class of 2013
• 2011, Clinical Medicine Lecturer of the Year, Elected by Franklin Pierce PA School Class of 2011
• 2012, Gold Humanism Scholar, Arnold P. Gold Foundation, including scholarship to attend the Harvard Macy Program for Educators in Health Professions
• 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
• 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, Selected by graduating class of medical students as the faculty member who embodies compassionate care
• 2022, Physician of the Year Award, Vermont Medical Society
• 2024, Invited to Fellowship, American College of Physicians