Thea James, MD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC)/Boston University School of Medicine, and president of the medical and dental faculty.
She is also the co-founder and director of the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program at BMC, which provides victims of violence with services that promote healing and discourage retaliation. James co-founded Unified for Global Healing, a foundation that works to improve health outcomes internationally.
James began her career at Boston Medical Center, where she was a chief resident in emergency medicine. She has a passion for public health, which includes her service as supervising medical officer for the Boston Disaster Medical Assistance Team. She was deployed to post-9/11 New York City, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and earthquakes in Iran and Haiti. James also traveled to Haiti with colleagues and emergency medicine residents for 12 years.
Because of her extraordinary compassion in caring for patients and families, James was honored with the Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver Award in November 2014.
[For more of this story, written by Molly Walker, go to http://www.medpagetoday.com/Em...rgencyMedicine/49551]
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