Caring for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Trauma

Dr. Michael Grodin joins the Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking from the Medical Campus to discuss the complexities of providing care to refugees and survivors of torture.

Michael Alan Grodin, M.D., is Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, and in the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, where he has received the two highest awards granted the Faculty, the Career Research and Scholarship Award and the Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Grodin is Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Grodin is Director of the Project on Ethics and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Professor of Jewish Studies and a member of the Division of Religious Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences. He completed his B.S. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his M.D. degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, his postdoctoral and fellowship training at UCLA and Harvard, and he has been on the faculty of Boston University for the past 37 years.

Dr. Grodin is also the Medical Ethicist at Boston Medical Center and founding director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights.