Stories by J. Wesley Boyd

J. Wesley Boyd is the director of education in the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he is a lecturer in the department of global health and social medicine. He is also a professor of medical ethics and psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. His areas of interest include social justice, access to care, human rights, asylum and immigration, humanistic aspects of medicine, physician health and well-being, and substance use. He earned an M.A. in philosophy, a Ph.D. in religion, and an M.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in medical ethics at HMS.