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Sandra B. Nelson, MD (she/her/hers)

Director, Musculoskeletal Infectious Disease and OPAT Programs Inpatient Clinical Director
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, United States

Sandra Nelson MD is an Infectious Diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She completed her medical school at Duke University School of Medicine, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical Center. She completed her fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University before joining the faculty at MGH and Harvard Medical School in 2007.

At MGH Dr. Nelson is the Inpatient Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases. She also directs the Program in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) and co-directs the highly acclaimed Harvard CME course on Infectious Diseases in Adults. Her academic interest is in the care of patients with musculoskeletal infections; at MGH she directs the Program in Musculoskeletal Infectious Diseases which is actively engaged in clinical care, educational efforts, and in research on treatment and prevention of musculoskeletal infection. She was a delegate to the 2013 and 2018 International Consensus Meetings on Periprosthetic Joint Infections, where she worked to create a new working definition of periprosthetic shoulder infections. She was on the panel for systematic review of management of post-operative surgical site infections of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS). She is a Past-President of the Musculoskeletal Infection Society (MSIS) and is a Section Editor at UpToDate® for the musculoskeletal infection and skin and soft tissue infection chapters.

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