Dr. Crosby is a member of the Physicians for Human Rights, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based group that just released a report entitled Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the `Enhanced’ Interrogation Program.

From Broken Laws, Broken Lives, a project of Physicians for Human Rights.

Sondra Crosby, MD, is an internist and former Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights at Boston Medical Center. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Crosby’s clinical practice focuses on care of asylum seekers, asylees and refugees, and she has written over 200 affidavits documenting medical and psychological sequelae of torture. She has published scholarly papers in multiple peer-reviewed journals in the field of caring for survivors of torture and recently was awarded the 2008 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation.

Research by Dr. Crosby:

Head and neck sequelae of torture.

Crosby SS, Mohan S, Di Loreto C, Spiegel JH.

Laryngoscope. 2010 Feb;120(2):414-9.

Ann Intern Med. 2007 Sep 18;147(6):431.

Seeking asylum from torture: a doctor’s view.

Crosby S.Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA.