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Wendy Stead, MD (she/her/hers)

Program Director
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, United States

Wendy Stead MD is the Program Director of the BIDMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Stead received a BA from George Washington University, her MD from the University of Massachusetts and completed her Internal Medicine Residency and ID Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, joining the BIDMC faculty with a joint appointment in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and General Medicine and Primary Care in 2003. She completed a Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education in 2010 and dedicates herself to patient care, medical education and curriculum development work at the residency and fellowship levels, winning awards for teaching, mentorship and humanistic care. She currently serves as Chief of the Hermann Blumgart Firm for BIDMC’s Internal Medicine Residency Program. Her active research interests include examining the effects of interdisciplinary education strategies on collaboration between specialty services, antibiotic stewardship in patients at end of life and gender bias in academic medicine. She loves narrative medicine and writing stories and poetry about her inspiring patients, has successfully published narrative and poetry works in peer-reviewed journals and serves as Associate Editor for the “Healing Arts” section of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, specifically reviewing submissions to Materia Medica which publishes well-crafted and engaging creative writing, including personal narratives, essays, or short stories related to medicine and health. She is proud mother of Izzy (age 21), Nicky (age 18), and Fezzik the dog (age 8).

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