Dr. Sondra Crosby is honored by Suffolk District Medical Society

Waltham – March 17 – Dedham resident and Boston Medical Center physician Sondra Crosby, M.D. has been honored by her physician peers of the Suffolk District Medical Society as the district’s 2017 Community Clinician of the Year. She will receive the award at the district’s annual meeting March 30 at the Downtown Harvard Club

In honoring Dr. Crosby, her colleagues noted that she has “devoted her career to caring for the most vulnerable of populations through her work with refugees and survivors of violence, rape and torture in Boston and around the world. She exemplifies the highest standards of medical idealism, ethics, and humanitarianism.”

Dr. Crosby is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Center for Health Law, Ethics and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health.

Board certified in internal medicine, she is a member of the General Internal Medicine Section and Director and Co-Founder of the Immigrant and Refugee Health Program at Boston Medical Center, as well as Co-founder and Director of the Forensic Medical Evaluation Group, Her clinical practice focuses on the care of asylum seekers and refugees, including those infected with HIV. From 2001-2009, she was Director of Medical Services for the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights and from 2007-2009 also served as the agency’s co-director.

A widely published author and lecturer on human rights and refugees, Dr. Crosby has also been co-investigator on several research projects examining refugee health and human rights. She has served as a consultant to Physicians for Human Rights and has evaluated the effects of torture, and inhuman treatment in locations around the world. Dr. Crosby is one of the few civilian physicians who have evaluated GTMO prisoners and testified on their behalf. She is the recipient of many honors recognizing her efforts in humanism and compassionate caregiving, among them the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation.

Since 2014, Dr. Crosby has served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy.

Dr. Crosby earned her bachelor’s degree from Washington State University, her doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Washington, and her M.D. from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She resides in Dedham.

The Community Clinician of the Year Award recognizes a physician from each of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s 20 district societies who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the community. The Suffolk District is comprised of nearly 4,000 physicians who live and work in Boston and adjacent communities.

The Massachusetts Medical Society, with some 25,000 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The Society, under the auspices of NEJM Group, publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading global medical journal and web site, and Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 13 specialties. The Society is also a leader in continuing medical education providing accredited and certified activities across the globe for physicians and other health care professionals. Founded in 1781, MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the country. For more information please visit www.massmed.org, www.nejm.org, or www.jwatch.org.