Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Columbia University
Dr. May Hua is an anesthesiologist, intensivist and palliative care researcher at Columbia University. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and completed Anesthesiology and Critical Care training at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia. She is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health. By combining quantitative population-level analyses of outcomes and qualitative techniques to elucidate behaviors underlying practice patterns, her mixed-methods research program aims to improve delivery of end-of-life and palliative care for patients with serious illness. Her work has centered on understanding palliative care needs of patients with serious illness who require intensive care, ways to improve access to palliative care services for critically ill patients, and developing methods to measure the effectiveness of specialist palliative care on a population-level. Currently, she is studying how differences in implementation of specialty palliative care may result in differences in outcomes in patients with metastatic cancer, and further delineating the effect of specialty palliative care on outcomes for other populations of patients with serious illness.
Friday, March 6, 2026
1:40pm - 2:00pm PST
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