Molly Hayes, MD

Margaret “Molly” Hayes, MD is an assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is the director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical. She obtained her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and then completed Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care training at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. She also served as assistant chief of service (chief resident) for one year at Johns Hopkins. During that year she realized her passion for medical education and since then has taught in numerous CME courses and is the co-director of the CME course—one of Harvard’s highest rated CME courses—Principles of Critical Care Medicine for the Non-Intensivist.

She is also an active member of the American Thoracic Society, where she serves as vice chair of education committee, chair of the core curriculum and chair of the subcommittee on education in critical care for the critical care assembly’s programming committee. Dr. Hayes enjoys teaching learners of all levels and has won numerous local and national educator awards. Dr. Hayes has advanced training in medical education research and is passionate about critical thinking, adult learning theory and high stakes communication. She has numerous publications on teaching communication skills as well as the importance of critical thinking in medicine. She is also interested in international education as the director for external education at the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research and has travelled extensively teaching medical education.