Mark T. Hughes, MD

Dr. Mark Hughes is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a core faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He is faculty member in general internal medicine and in palliative medicine. 

Dr. Hughes received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He earned his medical degree from SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Rochester. He performed a fellowship in primary care research with a concentration in bioethics at Georgetown University, where he also completed a master’s degree in philosophy (bioethics). He joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 1997.

His research interests include research ethics, clinical bioethics, ambulatory care, philosophy of medicine, end of life decision making, palliative care, and ethics education.

Dr. Hughes serves as the co-chair of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee and Consultation Service and coordinates its monthly Ethics for Lunch sessions for the hospital community. Since 2002, he has been the director of a mandatory course on research ethics for all faculty principal investigators and fellows conducting human-subjects research in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He also directs a course on the responsible conduct of research for graduate students int he School of Medicine. He is director of Ethics in Clinical Practice Project, delivering clinical ethics education to several residency programs at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is co-developer and associate editor of the Physician Education and Assessment Center, a web-based curriculum utilized by medical residency programs across the nation. He is co-editor of the book Curriculum Development for Medical Education: A Six-Step Approach, now in its fourth edition.

• Berman Institute for Bioethics
• Palliative Medicine Program

• Research in the Mark Hughes Lab focuses on clinical and research ethics as well as clinical bioethics, ambulatory care, philosophy of medicine and palliative care.

• Carrese JA, McDonald EL, Moon M, Taylor HA, Khaira K, Catherine Beach M, Hughes MT. Everyday ethics in internal medicine resident clinic: an opportunity to teach. Med Educ. 2011 Jul;45(7):712-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2011.03931.x. PMID: 21649704

• Haywood C Jr, Lanzkron S, Hughes MT, Brown R, Massa M, Ratanawongsa N, Beach MC. A video-intervention to improve clinician attitudes toward patients with sickle cell disease: the results of a randomized experiment. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 May;26(5):518-23. doi: 10.1007/s11606-010-1605-5. Epub 2010 Dec 23. PMID: 21181560

• Hughes MT, Smith TJ. “The growth of palliative care in the United States.” Annu Rev Public Health. 2014;35:459-75. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032013-182406.

• Hughes MT. Meeting patients where they are. Virtual Mentor. 2013 Apr 1;15(4):293-8. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2013.15.4.ecas2-1304. No abstract available. PMID: 23566777

• Moon MR, Hughes MT, Chen JY, Khaira K, Lipsett P, Carrese JA. “Ethics skills laboratory experience for surgery interns.” J Surg Educ. 2014 Nov-Dec;71(6):829-38. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2014.03.010. Epub 2014 Jul 8.

• Sisson SD, Rastegar DA, Hughes MT, Bertram AK, Yeh HC. Learner feedback and educational outcomes with an internet-based ambulatory curriculum: a qualitative and quantitative analysis. BMC Med Educ. 2012 Jul 12;12:55. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-55. PMID: 22788677

• Core Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics

• Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee, Co-chair
• Physician Education and Assessment Center (PEAC), Associate Editor