Wurcel

Speaker

Alysse Wurcel, MD, MS
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston University

Topic

“Infections in Incarcerated Populations”

Hybrid Event 
Zoom

About the Speaker

Dr. Alysse G. Wurcel is a physician-scientist and public health leader whose research centers on infectious diseases, health equity, and the intersection of medicine and the criminal-legal system. She earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts University and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and infectious diseases fellowships at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and Tufts Medical Center.

Currently, Dr. Wurcel serves as a physician at Boston Medical Center where she focuses on the following key research areas: HIV and Hepatitis C Care, Infectious Disease Management in Carceral Settings, Substance Use and Infectious Diseases, and Health Disparities and Policy Reform. Her achievements include, but are not limited to, being recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Correctional Health Care, authoring 160 peer-reviewed publications, being selected as Multiple Principal Investigator on four National Institutes of Health R-level grants. She is also an Infectious Diseases Liaison Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association and on the Executive Board of the Academic Consortium for Criminal Justice Health (ACCJH).