Megan Coffee, MD

Attending Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

Expertise

Infectious Disease

Education

Harvard University, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School

Highlights

As an infectious disease physician, my work is to put myself out of work, to stop the spread of infectious disease. We all breathe, we all eat, we all travel. We are all susceptible to infectious diseases. Some of us, sometimes the most vulnerable, are the most susceptible.

— Megan Coffee, MD

Experience

Megan Coffee, MD, PhD, is a former writer for Verywell Health covering infectious disease. She's worked in infectious disease research and care in multiple places around the globe from San Francisco to Haiti to Zimbabwe. She's particularly interested in making sure patients have the information they need to be as healthy as they can be.

Dr. Coffee first started research in infectious disease over 15 years ago. She was interested in understanding the dynamics and spread of infectious diseases like HIV. She studied computer models of disease spread in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and later went on to study influenza dynamics. She's published in multiple journals, including AIDS. She is a clinical doctor as well, working with patients with infectious diseases, primarily HIV and TB. She was the doctor responsible for a hospital ward providing critical care services for TB patients in Port-Au-Prince for four years following a major earthquake.

Education

Dr. Coffee attended Harvard University where she graduated with an undergraduate degree in chemistry. She then went on to receive a PhD (DPhil) from Oxford University where she worked on mathematical models of infectious disease. She subsequently received an MD from Harvard University. She completed her residency in internal medicine was at Massachusetts General Hospital and her fellowship in infectious disease at University of California, San Francisco, where she was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Infectious Disease and Emergency Readiness the University of California, Berkeley.

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