Maggi Budd

Margaret (Maggi) A. Budd, PhD, MPH, HEC-C, ABPP, is a Rehabilitation Psychologist and Neuropsychologist at Boston VA Healthcare System, and Associate Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She received her PhD from University of North Texas (UNT), and MPH from the UNT Health Science Center. She completed a two-year dual fellowship in neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology at Johns Hopkins. She is board certified through the American Board of Professional Psychology and has a Graduate Certificate in Health Care Ethics from the National Center for Ethics, Washington, DC. Dr. Budd is a nationally certified Health Care Ethics Consultant (HEC-C). Her clinical work focuses on veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) within an interdisciplinary team. She also serves as Chair for the Clinical Ethics Consultation Committee and board member for Integrative Ethics Counsel for VA Boston. In addition, Dr. Budd is a member of Harvard Ethics Leaders Group and faculty member of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. Scholarly involvement with ethics includes serving on Data Safety Management board for a multi-center NIH grant, and numerous local, regional, and national presentations related to ethics. Her areas of interest in bioethics are reasons for living/dying, and cognitive bias in disability. She recently published a model of potential provider bias when assessing risk for self-harm in people with SCI.

Center participation over the last year: Consortia, HELG, ABC, endowed lecture, public forums

Center participation over the coming year: Teach in MBE, Teach in PME, Capstone mentor, consortia, HELG, ABC, HCBC, endowed lectures, public forums.