Shira Doron studied medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and at the George Washington University Hospital. She completed her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center where she has been since 2001, currently serving as both the Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship and the Hospital Epidemiologist.
She is Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and is also an adjunct professor in the Immunology program and faculty in the Clinical and Translational Science graduate program at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University.
She is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and serves as chair for that organization’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence subcommittee. In that capacity, she works closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on projects related to the prudent use of antibiotics.
She has published extensively in the area of hospital-acquired infections, antimicrobial resistance and implementation of antimicrobial stewardship. She is a consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for an initiative funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct outreach to long term care facilities to improve their antimicrobial stewardship and infection control standards.
More recently, she has led her health system’s infection control response to COVID-19. As an expert on this topic, she has published 7 original research papers as well as 15 opinion pieces in major news outlets. She has an international media presence and serves as an unpaid advisor to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education and on the Massachusetts Governor’s Medical Advisory Board.
