Elizabeth Sivertsen, MBE, CCRN, HEC-C

Elizabeth (Beth) Sivertsen, MBE, CCRN, HEC-C is the Ethicist for Grady Health System, the "super safety-net" hospital of Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Masters in Bioethics from Harvard Medical School in 2018, where she served as the student editor for the second issue of the HMS Bioethics Journal and conducted practicum work assessing ethics program structure and unilateral DNR policy across Boston-area health systems. Beth holds her original BS in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University, and she later pursued an accelerated second-degree BSN at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She trained and practiced as a critical care nurse in the Ellison 4 Surgical ICU of Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was an Ethics Committee member and unit ethics liaison. She serves as a community member on the Institutional Review Boards of the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Her interests in bioethics include family refusal of brain death testing and organ donation, ethical decision-making on behalf of unrepresented patients, and equity considerations in expedited review of research involving genetic sequencing and use of de-identified specimens.