Tara N. Palmore

Tara N. Palmore
Tara N. Palmore
	Palmore in 2018
Alma mater	Harvard College; University of Virginia School of Medicine
	Scientific career
Fields	Hospital epidemiology
Institutions	National 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. She is the hospital epidemiologist at the NIH Clinical Center.

Education

Palmore earned a 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.[1]

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. 201 (1): 95–104. doi:10.1084/jem.20041912. ISSN 1540-9538. PMC 2212779. PMID 15623576.
Henderson, David K.; Dembry, Louise; Fishman, Neil O.; Grady, Christine; 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. 31 (3): 203–232. doi:10.1086/650298. ISSN 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. 4 (148): 148ra116–148ra116. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3004129. ISSN 1946-6234. PMC 3521604. PMID 22914622.
Marston, Hilary D.; Dixon, Dennis M.; Knisely, Jane M.; Palmore, Tara N.; Fauci, Anthony S. (September 2016). "Antimicrobial Resistance". JAMA. 316 (11): 1193. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.11764. ISSN 0098-7484. PMC 2536104.

References

"NIH Clinical Center: Meet Our Doctors". NIH Clinical Center. Retrieved 2021-01-28. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[:0-1] "NIH Clinical Center: Meet Our Doctors". NIH Clinical Center. Retrieved 2021-01-28. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.