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Vice Chair for Diversity, Health Equity, and Inclusion
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos, MD, MPH is a board-certified emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the MGH Human Trafficking Initiative. She is a leading expert in hospital-based anti-trafficking efforts and founding Medical & Executive Director of the Mass General Freedom Clinic, an innovative healthcare clinic for child and adult survivors of human trafficking that won the 2014 Partnership for Freedom Reimagine Opportunity national competition. Her expertise, collaboration, and consultation have been sought by hospital systems across the country and, among others, the American Hospital Association, Massachusetts Governor’s Council on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Academy of Medicine, and National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center. She publishes and lectures widely, and has been featured by local and national media entities. She is four-term Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Violence Intervention and Prevention and was honored with the Massachusetts Medical Society Honor Roll Award for her commitment to ending violence in all its forms. She previously worked with the International Organization for Migration’s Counter-Trafficking Unit in Indonesia and represented MGH at the 2008 UN Global Forum to Fight Human Trafficking in Vienna.