Please join us for the next IHER: Health Equity Seminar Series in June, 'The Journey of An Organizational Transformation to Health Equity and Justice' featuring speaker Thea James, MD, MPH, MBA. 

Speaker Bio: Thea James, MD, MPH, MBA, is Vice President of Mission, Associate Chief Medical Officer and Co-Executive Director of the Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center. She is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program at BMC. Dr. James is a founding member of the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (the HAVI). In 2011 she was appointed to Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. 

As vice president of mission, Dr. James partners with caregivers throughout BMC and coordinates BMC’s relationships and strategic alliances with a wide range of local, state, and national organizations and partners, to meet the full spectrum of essentials that enables patients and communities to thrive. The intentionality is to foster a strategic ecosystem of growth, transformation, and effective models of care that are rooted in equity, and economic inclusion and economic mobility, and other models of care that are essential for patients and communities to thrive.