Dr. Susan Wilcox

Dr. Susan Wilcox serves as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Critical Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, while also working as a Staff Intensivist in the Heart Center ICU. After completing her medical degree at Washington University School of Medicine, she trained in Emergency Medicine through the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program, graduating in 2008, followed by an Anesthesia Critical Care fellowship at MGH. Her career path includes significant positions between 2009 and 2015, working across Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Units at MGH and North Shore Medical Center, followed by a tenure at the Medical University of South Carolina where she served as medical director for the inpatient code team and ground critical care transport team. In 2017, she returned to MGH, where she continues to make significant contributions to emergency medicine and critical care. Her research focuses on mechanical ventilation outside the ICU and emergency care for patients with pulmonary hypertension, with over 130 citations for her work on neuromuscular blocking agents in emergency intubation. She has published extensively on critical topics including COVID-19 respiratory management, ECMO and right ventricular failure, and pulmonary hypertension in emergency medicine, establishing herself as a leading authority in critical care emergency medicine