Dr Shira Doron - Wellesley Board of Health

This presentation will take place at the Wakeman room in the library on Thursday, September 28 at 6:30 PMDr. Shira Doron is an infectious diseases physician. She serves as the Hospital Epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center and the Chief Infection Control Officer for the Tufts Medicine Health system where she was the subject matter expert for the COVID response. She is a recently elected member of the Wellesley Board of health.

Dr. Doron is a consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and sits on its Hospital Acquired Infections Technical Advisory Group. During the pandemic, she served on Governor Charlie Baker's Medical Advisory Board and worked closely with the Commissioner of Education on school reopening. 

She is the chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and speaks nationally on topics ranging from prudent antibiotic use to prevention of hospital-acquired infections. She has authored over 80 research papers. Since the pandemic began, she has published more than 20 lay press op-eds and participated in over 2000 media interviews.

Dr. Doron's talk will be entitled "Crisis Is the Mother of Innovation: how I led a hospital infection control response to a global pandemic". In it, she will take the audience behind the scenes and describe what it was like to be in a hospital during the dark early days of the COVID-19 crisis, emphasizing the importance of creativity and innovation and drawing parallels to other spheres.