Please join us in welcoming Elizabeth J. Lilley, MD, MPH, as a new faculty member in the Department of Surgery.
Elizabeth J. Lilley, MD, MPH
Associate Surgeon, Division of Surgical Oncology
Dr. Lilley received a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience from Lafayette College, an MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and her medical degree from Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed general surgery residency training at Rutgers and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was an Arthur Tracy Cabot Research Fellow at the Brigham Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH). Subsequently, she completed the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship and most recently, a complex general surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she was also the Chief Wellness Fellow.
Before joining the Brigham, Dr. Lilley was a clinical specialist at MD Anderson Cancer Center. At the Brigham, she will also work as a core faculty member for the CSPH and as an affiliate faculty member for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care. In this role, she will continue her surgical palliative care health services research.
Dr. Lilley is co-chair of the Surgical Palliative Care Society (SPCS) Research and Quality Committee, chair-elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Perioperative and Surgical Interest Group, and a member of various professional institutions, including American Women Surgeons (AWS), the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) and the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS). She is the section editor of Palliative Care for the Global Medical Knowledge Alliance (GMKA) and a regular reviewer of JAMA Surgery, the Journal of Surgical Education, the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Palliative Medicine and Annals of Surgical Oncology.
Dr. Lilley’s clinical areas of focus are gastrointestinal stromal tumors, extremity and retroperitoneal sarcoma and melanoma. Her research interests include perioperative symptom management, surgical decision-making, patient-centered quality metrics in palliative surgery, and supportive care needs of patients and caregivers.