Emergency Medicine Physician and Medical Toxicologist Melisa Lai-Becker MD is Deputy Chief of Mass General Brigham Emergency Medicine (MGB EM) and Chief of Emergency Medicine for MGB's seven Community Hospitals: Brigham & Women's Faulkner (Boston MA), Cooley Dickinson (Northampton MA), Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket Cottage, Newton-Wellesley (Newton MA), Salem, and Wentworth-Douglass (Dover NH); an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School; on the faculty of the Harvard Medical Toxicology Fellowship (HMTF) based at Boston Children's Hospital and the MA/RI Poison Center; and an oral board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). Previously, Dr. Lai-Becker was Chief of Emergency Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance’s (CHA) Everett Hospital (Everett MA), where she was also the founder and director of the medical toxicology consult service across CHA. While at CHA, Dr. Lai-Becker received the Outstanding Achievement and Outstanding Caregiver awards; was awarded the Community Attending Teaching Award by the Mass General Hospital Pediatric Residency; and was named a Public Health Hero by the Overdose Prevention and Education Network (OPEN) for her leadership and advocacy efforts to mitigate the opioid epidemic crisis. Prior to her tenure at CHA, Dr. Lai-Becker was Associate Director Medical/Surveillance at the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), now known as America's Poison Centers. She was also a National Disaster Medical Service (NDMS) medical officer serving on the RI-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) and was deployed to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She has also served as a commissioned officer (Captain; O-3) in the Medical Corps of the Air National Guard (Reserve of the United States Air Force). A past-president of the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians (MACEP), Dr. Lai-Becker is now co-chair of the MACEP Public Health Committee, where she has spent the last several years focused on advocacy of legislation at the state and federal level addressing the issue of Workplace Violence and violence against healthcare workers. She is a recipient of MACEP's Distinguished Service, President's, and Vanguard Awards; and in 2024 was named Emergency Medicine Physician of the Year. Dr. Lai-Becker earned both an ScB in Applied Mathematics-Biology and an MD from Brown. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency-Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham & Women's Hospital, and fellowship in Medical Toxicology at the Harvard Medical Toxicology Fellowship in Boston MA.