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Office
104 School St
Belmont, MA 02478Phone+1 617-416-9438- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Doctor, Author of Lest We Forget: A Doctor's Experience with Life and Death during the Ebola Outbreak, Into Africa, Out of Academia: A Doctor's Memoir, and The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly
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Education & Training
Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1985 - 1986
Boston University Medical CenterFellowship, Infectious Disease, 1982 - 1984
Mount Auburn HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1982
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and ScienceClass of 1979
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 1980 - 2025- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Chicago Medical School Distinguished Alumni Award for Service 2019
- Wellesley College Distinguished Alumnae Award 2017
- President’s Volunteer Service Award 2013-2015
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 10 citationsImpact of alcohol-based, waterless hand antiseptic on the incidence of infection and colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resis...Kwan Kew Lai, Sally A. Fontecchio, Zita S. Melvin, Stephen P. Baker> ;Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2006 Aug 31
- 15 citationsRapid eradication of a cluster of Serratia marcescens in a neonatal intensive care unit: use of epidemiologic chromosome profiling by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.Kwan Kew Lai, Stephen P. Baker, Sally A. Fontecchio> ;Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2004 Sep 1
- 35 citationsImpact of a program of intensive surveillance and interventions targeting ventilated patients in the reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia and its cost-effectiv...Kwan Kew Lai, Stephen P. Baker, Sally A. Fontecchio> ;Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2003 Nov 1
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Hospital Affiliations
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-NeedhamNeedham, Massachusetts
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