Member Spotlight: Tufts University

This presentation will feature a collaborative One Health effort that began at Tufts University in 2016 in the area of antimicrobial resistance.  Claire Fellman DVM and Shira Doron MD will discuss research, quality improvement, and inter-hospital efforts to support human and animal health including enhanced infection prevention and control, hospital stewardship initiatives, and student mentorship. Drs. Fellman and Doron will also introduce the mission and efforts of the Tufts University Center for the Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (CIMAR).

Dr. Shira Doron is an Infectious Disease physician, the Hospital Epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center, and the Chief Infection Control Officer for Tufts Medicine. She is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Doron is the immediate past chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence subcommittee and a member of the society’s Practice and Quality Committee and highly pathogenic avian influenza task force. She holds a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to support healthcare facilities throughout the region in efforts to improve antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention.

Dr. Claire Fellman is an Associate Professor of small animal internal medicine and clinical pharmacology at Tufts University.  Claire co-chairs the Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Team at the Foster Hospital for Small Animals and leads research efforts seeking to adapt antimicrobial stewardship strategies used in human hospitals to companion animal veterinary settings. Claire’s clinical interests include infectious and immune-mediated diseases.