Ylisabyth (libby) S. Bradshaw DO, MS

Ylisabyth (Libby) S. Bradshaw, DO, MS is Academic Director for the Pain Research, Education, and Policy Program in the Public Health program and Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Bradshaw teaches students within this and other Public Health and Professional Degree Programs, as well as pre-clinical and clinical medical students.

She has led innovations in medical and pain education for over 30 years. Her clinical practice in family medicine and then, emergency medicine led to expanding her early interests in injury control and violence prevention to include public health, and behavioral and organizational change. Personal experience with injury expanded her interests in pain and disability. She is an innovative educator, encourages active learning and engagement, and works to overcome barriers to understanding pain and suffering.

Dr. Bradshaw is a past president of the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians; served three terms on the Public Health Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and continues to serve on the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Committees on Public Health and on Violence Intervention and Prevention and on the Massachusetts Pain Initiative Policy Council. Recently she participated in the Massachusetts Governor’s Working Group to develop shared competencies in pain for medical students statewide.

She completed her Doctor of Osteopathy at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery and Master of Science at the Institute for Nuclear Physics.