Helen Boucher
Helen Boucher | |
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| Alma mater | University of Texas Medical School at Houston College of the Holy Cross |
| Occupation | Physician Researcher |
Helen Boucher is Dean ad interim of the Tufts University School of Medicine and Chief Academic Officer of Wellforce, the parent health system for Tufts Medical Center in Boston.[1] Prior to this, she served as Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center, a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance at Tufts.
Education[]
Helen Boucher graduated with an undergraduate degree in English from College of the Holy Cross, before earning her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.[2]
Career[]
In July 2021, Boucher became Dean ad interim of the Tufts University School of Medicine and Chief Academic Officer of Wellforce, the parent health system for Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
Boucher has worked as a physician in the field of infectious diseases since the mid-1990s.[3] She is a professor at Tufts University[4] and the founding co-director of the Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance along with Ralph Isberg.[5] She has also served as the Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the Tufts Medical Center,[6] and until assuming deanship at Tufts University's medical school was Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases.[2][7] As a scholar, her research focuses on drug-resistant medical infections.[4] She has also commented on public medical issues in publications including the Washington Post.[8]
Boucher is also a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria,[9][10] and is an associate editor of Infectious Diseases[11] and a member of the editorial board for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.[12] Boucher is also treasurer of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.[13]
References[]
- ^ "Helen Boucher Named Interim Dean at Tufts University School of Medicine".
- ^ a b "Holy Cross to Host Second Annual Women in Science Day | Newsroom | College of the Holy Cross". news.holycross.edu.
- ^ EDT, David H. Freedman On 05/15/19 at 7:10 AM (May 15, 2019). "Doctors are running out of effective drugs because of poor financial incentives to develop them". Newsweek.
- ^ a b Hall, William (April 9, 2018). Superbugs: An Arms Race against Bacteria. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674985070 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Tufts Medical Center takes on life-threatening superbug infections". March 8, 2019.
- ^ National Academy of Sciences, ed. (December 8, 2017). Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: A One Health Approach to a Global Threat: Proceedings of a Workshop. National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309466554 – via Google Books.
- ^ "'Superbug' infections are on the rise, a new CDC report says". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
- ^ "First New Tuberculosis Drug Approved in 50 Years". The Scientist Magazine®.
- ^ Turmelle, Luther (December 27, 2019). "Former New Haven drugmaker seeks bankruptcy protection". New Haven Register.
- ^ Jacobs, Andrew (December 25, 2019). "Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Medscape Infectious Diseases Editorial Board". www.medscape.com.
- ^ Microbiology, American Society for (July 1, 2014). "Editorial Board". Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 58 (7): A3. doi:10.1128/AAC.masthead.58-7 – via aac.asm.org.
- ^ "Board of Directors". www.idsociety.org.
- Living people
- Tufts University School of Medicine faculty
- College of the Holy Cross alumni
- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston alumni
- Tufts University faculty
- 21st-century American physicians
- 20th-century American physicians
- 20th-century American women physicians
- American medical researchers
- 21st-century American women