Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) NAM Fellowship

Dr. Hadler is an anesthesiologist, intensivist, palliative care physician and clinician-researcher at Emory University, where she currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Family and Preventive Medicine. Previously, she was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where she developed a research program focused upon describing care escalatory processes and on the integration of palliative care principles in the surgical intensive care unit. She subsequently transitioned to the University of Iowa to join her Canadian spouse. Her move to Iowa fueled her interest in questions around access to and transitions in care, particularly for rural and medically underserved patients. During her 2.5 years at Iowa, she completed a VA Quality Scholars Fellowship and obtained multiple institutional and extramural grants to explore her interest in how care access impacts critical illness and end-of-life care.

Dr. Hadler’s current primary research focuses on care intensity at end-of-life. Her work leverages qualitative and mixed methods as well as implementation science approaches to assess and identify the communication and decision-making processes leading to aggressive interventions in critically and terminally ill patients. Dr. Hadler has received extramural funding from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Hillman Foundation. In addition to her research, she leads and serves on multiple institutional and national committees focused upon improving palliative care integration into serious and surgical illness.

Dr. Hadler has retained an interest in how historical and cultural precedent impact the ethics of care delivery and biomedical research. She is a former Fellow at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics and Max Kade Fellow. She is a 2022 American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research Scholar, a recipient of multiple research awards from the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and has been honored for her teaching, research and clinical work at Emory University. She continues to practice all three specialties at Emory and at the Atlanta VA Medical Center.

Dr. Hadler received a BA with honors in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University. She subsequently spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, Germany, where she performed qualitative research exploring former East and West Germans’ perspectives on the Soviet liberation of Berlin in 1945. After completing a postbaccalaureate premedical certificate at Bryn Mawr College, Dr. Hadler obtained her MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She completed a surgical internship at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, anesthesiology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and a critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Her experiences with end-of-life care in the intensive care unit during training, combined with her prior work as a hospice volunteer and interactions with older adults during her time in Germany, led her to pursue a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.