Lee Daugherty, MD, MPH
Pulmonology
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Lee Daugherty
Professional Titles
- Chief Wellness Officer
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Medicine
Background
Dr. Lee Daugherty Biddison is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Chief Wellness Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is Associate Faculty in the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and a Contributing Scholar in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Dr. Daugherty Biddison’s research interests include hospital operations, patient safety, critical care disaster response, and physician well-being. In addition to her research responsibilities, Dr. Daugherty Biddison also serves as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs for Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She chairs the Department’s Clinical Directors Council and co-chairs the Clinical Affairs Planning and Strategy team. She also serves as a member of the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Credentials Committee. Immediately prior to becoming Chief Wellness Officer, she served on the Dean’s Task Force on Joy in Medicine. As part of that work, she co-chaired the Working Group on Culture and Work-life Balance and served as lead author of the summary report of the Task Force. She currently represents Johns Hopkins on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience.
Dr. Daugherty Biddison completed her undergraduate studies in journalism at Washington and Lee University, magna cum laude, and received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, cum laude. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Societies. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania and her Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins, where she also earned her Master of Public Health degree.
Centers and Institutes
Research Interests
Disaster Critical Care, ICU Patient Safety, Provider Well-being
Lab Website
Elizabeth Daugherty Lab
- The Elizabeth Daugherty Lab conducts research on patient safety, critical care infection control and critical care disaster response. We investigate methods of improving patient safety through improved infection control, with a focus on clinical outcomes, nosocomial infection rates and the individual and organizational obstacles to personal protective equipment adherence.
Research Summary
Dr. Daugherty’s research focuses on infection control and patient safety, including individual and organizational barriers that mediate personal protective equipment adherence, health care-associated infections rates and clinical outcomes.
Selected Publications
*Biddison ELD, Faden R, Gwon H, Mareiniss DP, Regenberg A, Schoch-Spana M, Schwartz J, Toner ES. Too Many Patients…A Framework to Guide Statewide Allocation of Scarce Mechanical Ventilation During Disasters. Chest. 2019 Apr;155(4):848-854
*Biddison ELD, Gwon H, Schoch-Spana M, Regenberg A, Juliano C, Faden R, Toner ES. Scarce Resource Allocation during Disasters: A Mixed-Method Community Engagement Study. Chest. 2018 Jan;153(1):187-195. *corresponding author
Golden SH, Bass E, Berry S, Biddison LD, Cayea D, Crews D, Desai S, Ghanem KG, Herzke C, Kirk G, Kisuule F, Levine R, Marr K, O'Rourke B, Pasricha P, Peairs K, Ray S, Durso SC, Hellmann D, Anderson ME. Building Leadership Capacity for Mission Execution in a Large Academic Department of Medicine. Am J Med. 2019 Apr;132(4):535-543
Mossburg SE, Weaver SJ, Pillari M, Daugherty Biddison E. Manifestations of High-Reliability Principles on Hospital Units With Varying Safety Profiles: A Qualitative Analysis. J Nurs Care Qual. 2019 Jul/Sep;34(3):230-235
Turnbull AE, Sahetya SK, Daugherty Biddison EL, Hartog CS, Rubenfeld GD, Benoit DD, Guidet B, Gerritsen RT, Tonelli MR, Curtis JR. Understanding and Addressing Competing and Conflicting Interests in the Care of Critically ill Patients, Intensive Care Med. 2018 Oct;44(10):1628-1637
Memberships
- American College of Chest Physicians
- American Thoracic Society
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
Professional Activities
- Clinical Directors Council, Chair
- Department of Medicine, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
- Hospital Credentials Committee, Member
- Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control Committee, Johns Hopkins, Member
- Hospital Ethics Committee, Johns Hopkins, Member
Locations
- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- 4940 Eastern Avenue, Bayview Medical Offices, Level 01 (G), Clinic 6, Baltimore, MD 21224
- phone: 443-927-1782
- fax: 410-367-2725
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Pulmonary Medicine, 2008Penn Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Residency, Internal Medicine, 2004Georgetown University School of Medicine
Medical Education, MD, 2001Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)