Associate Professor
Creighton University School of Medicine, United States
Dr. Maureen Tierney is the Chair of the Department of Clinical Research, the Assistant Dean for Clinical Research and Public Health, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Creighton University School of Medicine. She also serves as medical director of clinical research at CHI Health.
Dr. Tierney attended Fordham University. She received her MD from Cornell Medical College and training in IM and ID at New York Hospital/Cornell and Massachusetts General Hospital, respectively. She joined the staff in ID at MGH and became Assistant Clinical Director of ID as well as Fellowship Director before leaving to become Chief of ID at the West Roxbury VAMC and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Tierney earned a MSc. in health services administration/health policy from the Harvard SPH. She served as a senior medical reviewer for the FDA from 2002-2008. She served as Medical Director of the Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program at NE DHHS until May 2020, focusing her last months there trying to decrease COVID-19 transmission in long term care.
She has published abstracts, articles, chapters and regulatory documents on gaps in IP/AMR, COVID-19 and PH, NTM, HIV therapy, eye and ear infections, etc. She is a fellow of IDSA, and a member SHEA, CSTE, ACP and CORHA and was named Co-chair of CORHA’s Policy Subcommittee in 2018. She was named the Inaugural Awardee of The McKnight Prize for Healthcare Outbreak Heroes 2020.and was the recipient of the 2020 NICN (Nebraska Infection Control Network) Distinguished Service Award.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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