Wesley Boyd, M.D, Ph.D.
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Wesley Boyd, M.D, Ph.D.
Professor
Positions
- Professor
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Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
Education
- BA from Yale University
- 06/1985 - New Heaven, Connecticut
- MA from UNC Chapel Hill
- 06/1987 - Chapel Hill, NC
- MD-PhD from UNC Chapel Hill
- 06/1992 - Chapel Hill, NC
Honors & Awards
- Fraiman Lecturer in Medical Ethics
- Cambridge Health Alliance (06/2017)
- Cambridge Health Alliance Academic Council Award for Excellence
- 01/2017
- Cambridge Health Alliance Department of Psychiatry Leston Havens Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 01/2017
- Harvard Medical School Award for Excellence in Tutoring
- 01/2017
- American Psychiatric Association’s Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD, Certificate of Recognition for Excellent in Medical Student Education
- 01/2017
- Cambridge Health Alliance Adult Psychiatry Residency Graduation Speaker (voted by graduating residents)
- 01/2019
- Harvard Medical School Master’s Degree in Bioethics Graduation Speaker (voted by graduating students)
- 01/2019
Professional Interests
- Humanities, bioethics, human rights and psychiatry
Professional Statement
J. Wesley “Wes” Boyd, MD, PhD is a professor of psychiatry and medical ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He obtained an MA in philosophy and a PhD in religion and culture, along with his medical degree, at UNC Chapel Hill. He completed psychiatry residency at Cambridge Hospital and a fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. He has taught extensively in the humanities, bioethics, human rights and psychiatry. His areas of interest include social justice, access to care, human rights, asylum and immigration, humanistic aspects of medicine, physician health and well-being, the pharmaceutical industry, mass incarceration, and substance use, and writes for both academic and lay audiences in these areas.Websites
Selected Publications
- Singh S, Udwadia F, Boyd JW "Doctors in India Need Human Rights Training to Advocate for Prison Reform." 2021;
- Katznelson G, Boyd JW "Planning to Get a DNA Test? Proceed with Caution." 2021 Apr 14;
- Alpert M, Ramos M, Boyd JW "“The New Ketamine Based Antidepressant is a Rip-off.”." 2019 May 17;
- Boyd JW. "“Having Health Insurance Doesn’t Mean Mental Health Care Access.”." 2019 Jul 3;
- Mithani Z, Cooper JK, Boyd JW "Bioethics and Black Lives: A Call for Bioethics to Speak Against Racial Injustice." Hastings Center Blog. 2020 Jun 3;
- Fox S, Gallagher E, Boyd JW. "When the treatment is torture: ICE must stop using solitary confinement for Covid-19 quarantine.." STAT News. 2020 Aug 7;
- Grilley Green E, Truog R, Boyd JW. "How Ought Health Care Be Allocated? Two Proposals." Perspect Biol Med. 2019;62(4):765-777. Pubmed PMID: 31761806
- Flavin L, Malowney M, Patel N, Alpert M, Cheng E, Noy G, Samuelson S, Sreshta N, Boyd JW, "Availability of Buprenorphine Treatment in the 10 States With the Highest Drug Overdose Death Rates in the United States." J Psychiatr Pract. 2020;26(1):17-22. Pubmed PMID: 31913966
- Mithani Z, Cooper JK, Boyd JW. "Race, Power, and COVID-19: A Call for Advocacy within Bioethics." 2021 Feb;21(2):11-18. Pubmed PMID: 33289442
- Sreshta N, Patel N, Marlin RP, and Boyd JW "Who Seeks Asylum in the United States and Why? Some Preliminary Answers from a Boston-Based Study." Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Journal. 2021;
- Burke R, Ollada Lavery Y, Katznelson G, North J, Boyd JW. "How do individuals who were conceived through the use of donor technologies feel about the nature of their conception?”." Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Journal.. 2021;
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