W. Thomas Boyce, M.D.
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Professor, College for Interdisciplinary Studies
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Professor, Medicine,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
W. Thomas Boyce, M.D., is the Sunny Hill Health Centre/BC Leadership Chair in Child Development at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and a Professor in the Faculties of Graduate Studies and Medicine. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the American Pediatric Society.
A social epidemiologist and developmental-behavioral pediatrician, his research addresses the interplay among neurobiological, genetic and psychosocial processes that lead to socioeconomically partitioned differences in childhood morbidities. His research has demonstrated how psychological stress and neurobiological reactivity to aversive social contexts operate conjointly to increase risks of physical and mental health disorders in childhood. His work seeks a new synthesis between biomedical and social epidemiologic understanding of human pathogenesis, with particular attention to its population health implications.
He earned an M.D. from the Baylor College of Medicine and completed pediatrics residency at the University of California, San Francisco.
