Colleen Laurence, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Colleen E. Laurence, MD, MPH is an Attending Emergency Medicine Physician at Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Her research focuses on accessibility and delivery of comprehensive, trauma-informed emergency care for immigrant populations and realization of language justice in emergency care in the United States. In her research and implementation work, she to endeavors to embrace community engaged research and the equitable and the sensitive engagement of historically marginalized populations in research. Her early work focused on a clinic-based smartphone app developed to support people living with HIV, which was recognized by the CDC in 2019 as an Evidence-Informed Intervention for Retention in HIV Care.

Dr. Laurence completed her medical degree at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, her Emergency Medicine residency training at the University of Cincinnati where she also served as Chief Resident, and a Local Health Equity Fellowship at Boston Medical Center.

Publications

  • Published 6/29/2026

    Laurence C, Drainoni ML, Kimball SL, Paasche-Orlow MK, Asupoto O, Barnes S, Nansubuga A, Linas BP, Schulson LB. Immigrant perspectives on navigating the US healthcare system in the Post-COVID-19 landscape: a photo-elicitation project. J Migr Health. 2026; 14:100424. PMID: 42436669.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 11/3/2023

    Hexom BJ, Quao NSA, Bandolin NS, Bonney J, Collier A, Dyal J, Lee JA, Nicholson BD, Rybarczyk MM, Rees CA, Roy CM, Bhaskar N, Kivlehan SM. Global Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Literature from 2022. Acad Emerg Med. 2024 Jan; 31(1):71-85. PMID: 37813813.

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  • Published 8/17/2022

    Kivlehan SM, Hexom BJ, Bonney J, Collier A, Nicholson BD, Quao NSA, Rybarczyk MM, Selvam A, Rees CA, Roy CM, Bhaskar N, Becker TK. Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2021. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Oct; 29(10):1264-1274. PMID: 35913419.

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  • Published 6/29/2022

    Rice B, Pickering A, Laurence C, Kizito PM, Leff R, Kisingiri SJ, Ndyamwijuka C, Nakato S, Adriko LF, Bisanzo M. Emergency medicine physician supervision and mortality among patients receiving care from non-physician clinicians in a task-sharing model of emergency care in rural Uganda: a retrospective analysis of a single-centre training programme. BMJ Open. 2022 Jun 29; 12(6):e059859. PMID: 35768107.

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  • Published 9/27/2021

    Trehan I, Kivlehan SM, Balhara KS, Bonney J, Hexom BJ, Pousson AY, Quao NSA, Rybarczyk MM, Selvam A, Nicholson BD, Bhaskar N, Becker TK. Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2020. Acad Emerg Med. 2021 11; 28(11):1328-1340. PMID: 34310782.

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Education

  • Wake Forest University, MD
  • Emory University, MPH
  • University of Virginia, BA

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