Tara N. Palmore Explained
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
Selected works
- Tscharke. David C.. Karupiah. Gunasegaran. Zhou. Jie. Palmore. Tara. Irvine. Kari R.. Haeryfar. S.M. Mansour. Williams. Shanicka. Sidney. John. Sette. Alessandro. Bennink. Jack R.. Yewdell. Jonathan W.. January 2005. Identification of poxvirus CD8+ T cell determinants to enable rational design and characterization of smallpox vaccines. Journal of Experimental Medicine. en. 201. 1. 95–104. 10.1084/jem.20041912. 1540-9538. 2212779. 15623576.
- Henderson. David K.. Dembry. Louise. Fishman. Neil O.. Grady. Christine. Christine Grady. Lundstrom. Tammy. Palmore. Tara N.. Sepkowitz. Kent A.. Weber. David J.. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. March 2010. SHEA Guideline for Management of Healthcare Workers Who Are Infected with Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus, and/or Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. en. 31. 3. 203–232. 10.1086/650298. 20088696. 246632 . 0899-823X.
- Snitkin. E. S.. Zelazny. A. M.. Thomas. P. J.. Stock. F.. NISC Comparative Sequencing Program. Henderson. D. K.. Palmore. T. N.. Segre. J. A.. August 2012. Tracking a Hospital Outbreak of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with Whole-Genome Sequencing. Science Translational Medicine. en. 4. 148. 148ra116. 10.1126/scitranslmed.3004129. 1946-6234. 3521604. 22914622.
- Marston. Hilary D.. Hilary D. Marston. Dixon. Dennis M.. Knisely. Jane M.. Palmore. Tara N.. Fauci. Anthony S.. Anthony Fauci. September 2016. Antimicrobial Resistance. JAMA. en. 316. 11. 383–394. 10.1001/jama.2016.11764. 6603914. 0098-7484. 2536104.
Notes and References
- Web site: NIH Clinical Center: Meet Our Doctors. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320210527/https://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/meet-our-doctors/tpalmore.html. 2021-03-20. 2021-01-28. NIH Clinical Center.
