About Molly Paras, MD
Molly Paras is a graduate of The Ohio State University (Microbiology, English) and the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. She completed internal medicine residency at MGH, followed by an Infectious Disease fellowship at MGH/Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is the Program Director for the Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. She sees inpatient and outpatient infectious disease consults and her academic interests include endocarditis, medical education, antimicrobial stewardship and infection control.
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Infectious Diseases
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-3906
Medical Education
- MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital*
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital*
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital*
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital*
American Board Certifications
- Infectious Disease, American Board of Allergy and Immunology
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna Health Inc.
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
- BMC HealthNet Mass Health MCO/ACO
- Cigna (PAL #'s)
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Community HealthCare
- Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
- Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
- Humana/Choice Care PPO
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan - ACD
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan - PBO
- MassHealth
- Medicare
- Medicare - ACD
- Medicare ACO - ACD
- Medicare ACO - PBO
- OSW - Connecticut
- OSW - Maine
- OSW - New Hampshire
- OSW - New York
- OSW - Rhode Island
- OSW - Vermont
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
- Railroad Medicare
- Railroad Medicare - ACD
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Unicare
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - ACD
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
- Well Sense Pediatrics
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Shenoy E.S., Paras M.L., Noubary F., Walensky R.P., Hooper, D.C. Natural history of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE): a systematic review. BMC Infectious Diseases 2014; 14: 177.
Paras M.L., Shenoy E.S., Hsu H.E., Walensky R.P., Hooper, D.C. Housestaff knowledge related to urinary catheter utilization and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). Infect Control Hospital Epidemiol 2015; 36(11): 1355-7.
IDSA’s Infectious Diseases Training Program Directors’ Committee and White Paper Work-Group, for The Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Directors’ Committee and Work Group. The Struggling Infectious Diseases Fellow: Remediation Challenges and Opportunities. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2020; 7(3).
Kinsella CM, Paras ML, Smole S, Mehta S, Ganesh V, Chen LH, McQuillen DP, Shah R, Chan J, Osborne M, Hennigan S, Halpern-Smith F, Brown CM, Sabeti P, Piantadosi A. Jamestown canyon virus in Massachusetts: clinical case series and vector screening. Emerging Microbes & Infections, 2020; 9(1).
Weinstein DF, Choi JG, Mercaldo ND, Stump N, Paras ML, Berube RA, Hur, C. Is resident-driven inpatient care more expensive? Challenging a long-held assumption. Academic Medicine. 2021.
Queen J, Karaba S, Albin J, Karaba A, Howard-Anderson J, Skinner N, Herman J, Paras ML, Melia M. The time is now: a call for renewed support of infectious disease physician-scientist trainees in the COVID-19 era. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2021.