Emory Critical Care, Georgia
Rachel Hadler is an anesthesiologist, intensivist, palliative care physician and clinician-researcher at Emory University. Dr. Hadler received a B.A. with honors in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, Germany, before pursuing her M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She completed a surgical internship at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, anesthesiology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, critical care fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, and a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Hadler is a former Fellow at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics and Max Kade Fellow, and she has retained an interest in how historical and cultural precedent impact the ethics of care delivery and biomedical research. Dr. Hadler’s primary research focus is on care intensity at end-of-life. Her work leverages mixed-methods approaches to assess and identify the communication and decision-making processes leading to aggressive interventions in critically and terminally ill patients. Dr. Hadler is a 2022 American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research Scholar, and she has received funding from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Hillman Foundation.
Ethical Dilemmas in the Unrepresented Patient
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
11:15 AM - 11:25 AM Central Time
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
