Dr. Vetters is the Medical Director of the Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center, a program of Fenway Health.
He is from Texas and Missouri and graduated from Harvard College in 1985. His first career was as a union organizer in New England for workers in higher education and the public sector. In 1998 he went back to school and graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 2003 after also getting his masters in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health in maternal and child health.
He graduated from the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in 2006 and has been working as a pediatrician at the Sidney Borum Health Center since that time. Dr. Vetters focuses on providing care to high risk adolescents and young adults, specifically developing programs that support the needs of homeless youth and inner city LGBT youth.