Colleen Farrell

Colleen Farrell is a Lecturer in Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), an Associate Physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and a member of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Bioethics. She serves on the BWH ethics committee and teaches in HMS's medical ethics and professionalism curriculum.

Education:
Dr. Farrell earned her MD from Harvard Medical School, completed internal medicine residency at New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital, and pursued dual fellowships in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Ethics at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine.

Research Interests:
Her work bridges clinical practice and ethics, focusing on:

• Challenges in critical care decision-making
• Ethical dimensions of medical training
• Professional identity formation in physicians
• Emotional labor in healthcare

Publications & Impact:
Her writings span academic journals (JAMA, CHEST) and mainstream media (The New York Times, The Washington Post), analyzing systemic issues in medical culture and training.

Awards:
No awards reported in source materials.

Service & Leadership:
She contributes to clinical ethics consultation services at BWH and develops educational content on professional ethics for medical trainees.