I’m Joe Wright, a doctor based in Boston. For the last ten years, most of my patients have been homeless. I’m also a research affiliate at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At MIT, I’m studying the history of the Mass/Cass area of Boston. What I will learn will become published articles and in the longer run, a book.

In the past, I was a commentator for National Public Radio, and I did academic research about the history of the early AIDS epidemic. For most of the last fifteen years, I’ve been mainly focused on the clinic, and working with patients and clinical teams.

Now I’m folding history research and writing back into my work.

You can see my work history at my LinkedIn page. I’m board-certified in internal medicine and in addiction medicine. I continue to work with patients, but I’ve stepped down from my former management roles. My project on Mass/Cass isn’t sponsored by any of my employers. I’ve made sure to keep it independent of any institution working within Mass/Cass.

In a few situations, I found myself in the middle of events of Mass/Cass. Most of the time, I was near enough to the events to hear stories about them—but I was on the sidelines. So I know enough to have lots of questions to ask. But I certainly don’t know enough to tell the story myself.

To tell the story, I need to talk to a lot of other people. If you were part of that story, I’m interested in talking to you. You can use the “Contact Me” link at the top of this page to send a confidential message—if it asks you for information you don’t want to fill out just write “Nope” in that field— or “nope@nope.com” if you want to put your phone number in the message portion.

All opinions on this site are mine and only mine, and I do not speak for my colleagues, my bosses, or the clinical teams I’m a part of. This site is for my non-clinical work—it’s a bad place to look for specific advice about medical treatment or addiction treatment.