Michael Ieong, MD

Michael Ieong, MD, is the medical director for the medical intensive units at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and an assistant professor in the section of pulmonary, allergy, sleep and critical care medicine at Boston University Medical School. He co-chairs the BMC Ethics Committee and the Critical Care Executive Committee, a collaborative effort of all the adult intensive care units. He oversees the Clinical Ethics Consult Team and is active in developing and providing educational presentations on timely ethics topics to the Boston University Medical Center community. He is interested in the bioethical issues that arise in caring for a multicultural, safety-net hospital population, particularly surrounding surrogate-decision making and utilization of a healthcare ethics consultation service. He is currently a Co-Director of the Capstone Program for the Master of Science in Bioethics Program at Harvard Medical School.