Molly Hayes.

Margaret (Molly) Hayes, MD, ATSF

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, External Education, Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research
Director, Medical Intensive Care Units, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Margaret (Molly) Hayes, MD, ATSF is an assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a medical intensivist at Beth Israel Deaconess. Her research interests are in best practices for humanizing the intensive care unit (ICU), teaching communication around end-of-life issues in the ICU and teaching and learning critical thinking. Dr. Hayes has created and studied curricula to teach internal medicine residents how to talk about death and dying. Also, she has active research in medical simulation and procedural training. Dr. Hayes has had leadership roles in both Undergraduate Medical Education (former clerkship director for the Intensive Care Medicine Clerkship at Beth Israel Deaconess/HMS), and Graduate Medical Education (former Associate Program Director of the internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess). She now focuses most of her time on Continuing Medical Education. Dr. Hayes directs and co-directs two highly rated Harvard CME courses (Principles of Critical Care Medicine for Non-Intensive Care Specialists and Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills) and is particularly interested in creating and studying novel ways to deliver CME content. 


Dr. Hayes is also interested in international education and is currently the director of external education at the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research. In this role, she has helped create numerous educational programs for international audiences and has traveled extensively teaching medical education. Additionally, Dr. Hayes is very involved in the American Thoracic Society, where she serves as Vice Chair of the Education Committee and Chair of the Core Curriculum. She is also the Chair of the Subcommittee on Education and Critical Care for the Critical Care Assembly’s Programming Committee. 


Dr. Hayes has won numerous local and national educator awards, including the Hermann L. Blumgart Faculty teaching award from the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess, the Robert Moellering Jr. Teaching Award from the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess, the Young Mentor Award from HMS, the Emerging Educator Award from the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD) and the Early Career Educator Award from the American Thoracic Society.
Dr. Hayes received her BS degree in biology from Boston College and MD from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her residency, chief residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and has completed advanced training in medical education at HMS as a Rabkin Fellow and an Academy Education Research fellow.