Alysse Wurcel, MD, MS, Chair-Elect

Alysse G. Wurcel, MD MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases (ID) at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She did internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and ID fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and Tufts Medical Center. In addition to her work as an inpatient ID doctor, Dr. Wurcel has an outpatient clinic where she specializes in HIV, HCV and substance use disorder care. Dr. Wurcel provides HIV and HCV care at five county jails in eastern MA. She is interested in the barriers and facilitators to care for people with or at risk for HIV and HCV, especially people who use drugs and people who are incarcerated. She is an international expert on injection-drug use-associated infections, including bacterial endocarditis. Dr. Wurcel has a K08 grant from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality to improve HCV testing access in jails.