Elaine J. Alpert, MD, MPH, Author
Elaine J. Alpert, MD, MPH trained in internal medicine and public health, and is an internationally respected scholar and consultant in family violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking with expertise and experience in trauma-informed care, interprofessional and innovative educational methods, and strengthening the health sector’s role in the coordinated community response to violence and abuse across the lifespan.

The Founding Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Violence Intervention and Prevention, Dr Alpert is the lead author of Intimate Partner Violence: the Clinician’s Guide to Identification, Assessment, Intervention and Prevention (6th ediion, 2015), as well as Human Trafficking: A Guidebook on Identification, Assessment, and Response in the Health Care Setting (2014). She has authored numerous additional important articles, guidebooks, curricula, and book chapters about family violence, sexual assault and human trafficking for physicians and other health care providers and developed previous online continuing medical education about domestic and sexual violence for the Massachusetts Medical Society. She is the Massachusetts Medical Society representative to National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse where she is co-chair the Education, Communication and Outreach Committee, and serves on the Steering Committee. Dr. Alpert has also served on the U.S. Institute of Medicine Committee on the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence.

Following a decades-long career at Boston University Medical Center as a general internist, medical educator, public health faculty member, and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, and an Associate Professorship appointment at Boston University School of Public Health, Dr. Alpert was awarded a 2009 Fulbright Fellowship to develop and teach interprofessional courses in violence prevention and in intervention planning for improving public health at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where she served as the Director of the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Program, and created the UBC Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) Connector. She also served as a consultant to the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston regarding their research and publications on human trafficking, and has engaged in on-site teaching, research and/or consulting in Asia, the Pacific Islands and Central America.  Dr. Alpert has received honors and awards from the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Futures Without Violence.

Rebecca Lee, MD, Researcher/Reviewer
Dr. Lee is a physician at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. She finds the City of Lawrence extraordinarily committed to social justice and community empowerment. Her passions within medicine include homeless health, addiction medicine, family planning and global medicine.

Dr. Lee attended Wesleyan University for undergraduate work, studying both chemistry and art. A summer in a Northern India village serving as a teacher and health educator inspired her work in public health and medicine. A graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine, she is deeply interested in community-focused healthcare. She spent one day a week during her first two years of medical school with the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Street Team where she delved further into how best to care for the homeless population and those struggling with addiction.

She co-founded the Student Coalition on Addiction, an organization focused on improving education on addiction in the health professions, advocating for better services & treatment availability at the city and state level, and promoting student involvement in community activism. Upon earning her medical degree, Dr. Lee received the Tufts University Presidential Award for Civic Life.