Susannah Lee

MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Susannah “Suzy” Lee, J.D., M.P.H., HEC-C is a Clinical Ethicist at the John J. Lynch, MD Center for Ethics at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. In addition to clinical ethics consultation work, she co-chairs the Center’s subcommittee on policy, engages in bioethics research and education, and conducts quality improvement projects. Her scholarship addresses patients’ rights, advance care planning, and using the law to as a tool to promote both access to and quality in health care services. She completed a Clinical Ethics Fellowship at Wellstar Health System in Atlanta, GA. She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, her M.P.H. in Health Policy from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and her BA in history from the University of Richmond. She completed a Legal and Administrative Fellowship at Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, LA. She is barred in the District of Columbia.