J. Wesley Boyd MD PhD

J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD is Attending Psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also on faculty in the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Boyd graduated with a BA from Yale in philosophy, and then received an MA in Philosophy, a Ph.D. in Religion and Culture, and an MD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Following graduate school and medical school, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital and also completed a Fellowship in Medical Ethics through the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In addition to teaching psychiatry, he teaches medical ethics at Harvard Medical School and a popular Harvard College freshman seminar entitled “Psychology of Religion.” He is the author of a book, Almost Addicted, which won the Will Solimene award from the American Medical Writers Association.