Colleen Laurence, MD, MPH

Colleen Laurence is an Emergency Physician at Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in Boston University’s School of Medicine. Her research and programmatic interests include improving emergency care of refugee and immigrant populations and patients with limited English proficiency and global emergency medicine education. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati where she also served as Chief Resident. She earned her MD from Wake Forest University, her MPH from Emory University, and completed a fellowship in Local and Global Health Equity at Boston Medical Center. Before attending medical school, she served with the US Peace Corps in Mauritania and Rwanda and helped to develop a mobile app to support people living with HIV/AIDS in the US, now recognized by the CDC as a best practice.