J. Wesley Boyd
J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Wes Boyd, MD, PhD is on the faculty at the Center for Bioethics and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a staff psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) and is the co-founder of the Human Rights and Asylum Clinic at CHA. Wes graduated with a BA cum laude from Yale in philosophy. He then attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received an MA in philosophy, a Ph.D. in religion and culture, and a medical degree. Following graduate school and medical school, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School and also completed a Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. 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. In the MBE program, Wes teaches "Bioethics Advocacy," "Health and Human Rights," and "Critical Reading of Contemporary Books in Bioethics."

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Short-term effects of electronic cigarettes on cerebrovascular function: A time course study.
Authors: Authors: Mills A, Dakhlallah D, Robinson M, Kirk A, Llavina S, Boyd JW, Chantler PD, Olfert IM.
Exp Physiol
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Tissue-level cytokines in a rodent model of chronic implant-associated infection.
Authors: Authors: Prince N, Penatzer JA, Shackleford TL, Stewart EK, Dietz MJ, Boyd JW.
J Orthop Res
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Corticosterone and chlorpyrifos oxon exposure elicits spatiotemporal MAPK phosphoprotein signaling in a mouse brain.
Authors: Authors: Penatzer JA, Prince N, Miller JV, Newman M, Lynch C, Hobbs GR, Boyd JW.
Food Chem Toxicol
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Differential phosphoprotein signaling in the cortex in mouse models of Gulf War Illness using corticosterone and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.
Authors: Authors: Penatzer JA, Miller JV, Prince N, Shaw M, Lynch C, Newman M, Hobbs GR, Boyd JW.
Heliyon
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Localized cytokine responses to total knee arthroplasty and total knee revision complications.
Authors: Authors: Prince N, Penatzer JA, Dietz MJ, Boyd JW.
J Transl Med
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Impact of Cytokines and Phosphoproteins in Response to Chronic Joint Infection.
Authors: Authors: Prince N, Penatzer JA, Dietz MJ, Boyd JW.
Biology (Basel)
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Salivary cytokines as a biomarker of social stress in a mock rescue mission.
Authors: Authors: Penatzer JA, Miller JV, Han AA, Prince N, Boyd JW.
Brain Behav Immun Health
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Bioenergetic Analyses of In Vitro and In Vivo Samples to Guide Toxicological Endpoints.
Authors: Authors: Boyd JW, Penatzer JA, Prince N, Miller JV, Han AA, Currie HN.
Methods Mol Biol
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Laser-assisted Fluorescent Angiography to Assess Tissue Perfusion in the Setting of Traumatic Elbow Dislocation.
Authors: Authors: Dietz MJ, Hare JT, Ueno C, Prud'homme BJ, Boyd JW.
Wounds
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Caution is Warranted when Engaging with a State Physician Health Program: Comment on "A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Review of Resident Care-Seeking at a Physician Health Program".
Authors: Authors: Wesley Boyd J.
Acad Psychiatry
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