Claire Shappell, MD, MPH

Claire N. Shappell, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she practices clinically in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Her research focuses on the use of electronic health record (EHR) data to study the epidemiology, outcomes, and intersections of sepsis and severe viral infections. Her research interests also include antibiotic stewardship and sepsis over-treatment, the natural history and trajectories of septic shock, and development of EHR-based surveillance definitions for critical illness syndromes like viral sepsis and acute respiratory failure. She is supported by a K08 career development award from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality which is mentored by DPM faculty members Michael Klompas and Chanu Rhee.