Tara N. Palmore

Tara N. Palmore is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist specializing in patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections. As of 2023 she was a Senior Medical Advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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 NIAID fellowship program.

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, focused on optimizing patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections. In 2013, along with Dr. Julie Segre and other NIH colleagues, Palmore was awarded a Samuel J. Heyman Award for Federal Employee of the Year for her work stopping a deadly epidemic of a multi-drug resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae through genomic sequencing. She was promoted to hospital epidemiologist in 2014. 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 In 2023, she returned to the NIAID to become a Senior Medical Advisor.

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