Chief Infection Prevention Officer
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Sharon B. Wright, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA
Dr. Sharon B. Wright is the Chief Infection Prevention Officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH), a system of 13 hospitals, long-term care and behavioral care bedded units, and ambulatory care practices. From 2001-2021, she served as hospital epidemiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), where her work focused on prevention of healthcare-associated infections, in particular novel approaches to reduction of central-line associated bloodstream infections, surgical site infections and outbreak management. She created a funded infection control fellow track with a set curriculum for senior infectious diseases fellows planning a career in healthcare epidemiology in order to provide hands-on experience in surveillance, quality improvement, and administration.
Dr. Wright is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is on the faculty of the Division of Infectious Diseases at BIDMC. She received her medical degree from the Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and her master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Wright completed her internal medicine residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and her infectious diseases fellowship in the Harvard Combined (Longwood) Training Program. She completed a second fellowship in Health Services Research at Boston Children’s Hospital. Nationally, Dr. Wright is currently serving as President of the Board of Trustees of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and is a member of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).
