Nina Laing joined Medstar Washington Hospital in 2017, initially working as a primary Social Worker in the intensive care unit where she worked with patients and families facing critical illness, trauma and progression of disease. Nina is a member of the Ethics Committee and the Health Equity Committee. She also works with palliative clinicians within the larger Medstar system to identify practice priorities within an equity framework.
Prior to joining the Hospital Center staff, Nina obtained her master's in social work at the Silver School of Social Work at NYU. She gained valuable experience working with children and their families confronted with chronic or life limiting illness at the Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center and subsequently completed a fellowship in Palliative Social Work at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York, New York.
Nina has published writings addressing the role of palliative social work and palliative social work within critical care medicine. She continues to explore the intersection of palliative social work and our larger health landscape and has a particular interest in health disparities, which is an emerging research interest.