Tara N. Palmore is an American

physician-scientist A physician-scientist (in North American English) or clinician-scientist (in British English and Australian English) is a physician who divides their professional time between direct clinical practice with patients and scientific research. Physicia ...

and epidemiologist specializing in

patient safety Patient safety is a specialized field about enhancing healthcare quality through the systematic prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of medical errors and preventable harm that contribute to severe outcomes for the patient. While health ...

through prevention of

hospital-acquired infection A hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection (from the Greek , meaning "hospital"), is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care, healthcare facility. To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital sett ...

s. As of 2023 she was a Senior Medical Advisor at the

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, ) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID's mis ...

(NIAID) at the

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(NIH).

Education

Palmore earned an undergraduate degree from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate education, undergraduate college of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Scienc ...

and a M.D. from the

University of Virginia School of Medicine The University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA SOM or more commonly known as UVA Medicine) is the graduate medical school of the University of Virginia. The school's facilities are on the University of Virginia grounds adjacent to The Lawn, ...

. She completed her internship and residency in

internal medicine Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of ...

at the

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (abbreviated as NYP) is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City. It is the primary teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The hospit ...

/Cornell Internal Medicine Residency Program and her fellowship in

infectious diseases infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dise ...

at the NIH's NIAID fellowship program.

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 The NIH Clinical Center is a hospital solely dedicated to clinical research at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The Clinical Center, known as Building 10, consists of the original part of the hospital, the Warren ...

in 2007, focused on optimizing

through prevention of

s. In 2013, along with Dr. Julie Segre and other NIH colleagues, Palmore was awarded a Samuel J. Heyman Award for Federal Employee of the Year for her work stopping a deadly epidemic of a multi-drug resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae through genomic sequencing. She was promoted to hospital epidemiologist in 2014. 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 In 2023, she returned to the NIAID to become a Senior Medical Advisor.

Selected works

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References

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