Tara N. Palmore
Palmore in 2018
Alma materHarvard College
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Scientific career
FieldsHospital epidemiology
InstitutionsNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

Tara N. Palmore is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist specializing in patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections. As of 2021 she was the hospital epidemiologist at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Education

Palmore earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Internal Medicine Residency Program and her fellowship in infectious diseases at the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) fellowship program.[1]

Career

In 2005, Palmore began her career at the NIH as a staff clinician in the NIAID laboratory of clinical infectious diseases. She became deputy hospital epidemiologist in the NIH Clinical Center in 2007 and became hospital epidemiologist in 2014. As hospital epidemiologist, Palmore aims to optimize patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections. In 2021, she became a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiologist at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences[1]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 "NIH Clinical Center: Meet Our Doctors". NIH Clinical Center. Archived from the original on 2021-03-20. Retrieved 2021-01-28.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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