Alysse G Wurcel MD, MS
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-5951awurcel@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Biography
Dr. Alysse G. Wurcel is a physician-scientist and public health leader whose research centers on infectious diseases, health equity, and the intersection of medicine and the criminal-legal system. She earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts University and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and infectious diseases fellowships at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and Tufts Medical Center. Additionally, she holds a Master's in Clinical Research from Tufts University.
Currently, Dr. Wurcel serves as a physician at Boston Medical Center where she focuses on the following key research areas: HIV and Hepatitis C Care, Infectious Disease Management in Carceral Settings, Substance Use and Infectious Diseases, and Health Disparities and Policy Reform. Her achievements include, but are not limited to, being recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Correctional Health Care, authoring 160 peer-reviewed publications, being selected as Multiple Principal Investigator on two National Institutes of Health R-level grants and as a liaison for the COVID-19 Liaison Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association, and serves as Chair of the Academic Consortium for Criminal Justice Health (ACCJH).
Education
MD, University of Pennsylvania
Clinical and Translational Science, MS, Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Publications
Panaccione S, Jack H, Wurcel A, Rich J, Berk J. Executive Summary: State-of-the-Art Review: The Intersection of Infectious Diseases and Carceral Medicine. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Oct 06; 81(3):407-409. PMID: 41047931.
Published on 10/6/2025Panaccione S, Jack H, Wurcel A, Rich J, Berk J. State-of-the-Art Review: The Intersection of Infectious Diseases and Carceral Medicine. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Oct 06; 81(3):e42-e51. PMID: 41047932.
Published on 9/25/2025Grussing ED, Cassarino N, Tenner RA, Doron S, Campion M, Wurcel AG. Fighting AntimicroBial Resistance in Carceral Settings (FABRICS) study on antibiotics prescribing in New England prisons. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2025; 5(1):e235. PMID: 41079965.
Published on 9/2/2025Sundaram G, Sato T, Socrates B, Wurcel A. "There's a lot of people who love them, so why call 'em junkies?": clinician and patient perspectives about words used to describe people who use drugs. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2025 Sep 02; 20(1):71. PMID: 40898349.
Published on 8/20/2025Martinez-Kratz J, Manning D, Vest N, Glenn J, Brinkley-Rubinstein L, Wurcel A. The Digital Availability of US Departments of Corrections' Research Policies: Cross-Sectional Analysis. JMIR Form Res. 2025 Aug 20; 9:e76835. PMID: 40835403.
Published on 8/1/2025Blumenthal KG, King AJ, Stone VE, Bartels S, Norton DT, Eippert ML, Zhang Y, Wurcel A. Geospatial Socioeconomic Indicators and Penicillin Allergy Delabeling in Primary Care Patients. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Aug 01; 8(8):e2528714. PMID: 40844781.
Published on 7/18/2025Sato T, Grussing ED, Patel R, Ridgway J, Suzuki J, Sweigart B, Miller R, Wurcel AG. Natural Language Processing for Identification of Hospitalized People Who Use Drugs: Cohort Study. JMIR AI. 2025 Jul 18; 4:e63147. PMID: 40680182.
Published on 7/12/2025Foong KS, Doron S, Wurcel A. Incomplete documentation of ß-lactam allergy in long-term care facility residents increases risk of high-risk antibiotic use for Clostridioides difficile infection. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2025 Jul 12; 82(14):770-771. PMID: 39726291.
Published on 7/3/2025Benrubi L, Westgard LK, Sato T, Zollo-Venecek K, Barnewolt B, Kogelman L, Wurcel AG. Implementation of Systems to Support Status-Neutral HIV Care in the Emergency Department. Sex Transm Dis. 2025 Jul 03. PMID: 40608692.
Published on 7/3/2025Shah RJ, McDowell A, King A, Zhang Y, Stone VE, Bartels SJ, Wurcel AG, Blumenthal KG. Disparities in penicillin allergy delabeling among gender marginalized populations: A cross-sectional study. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2025 Oct; 13(10):2842-2844. PMID: 40615078.