Alfred DeMaria Jr., MD

Biography

Dr. DeMaria serves as Medical Director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease Prevention, Response and Services in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is also the State Epidemiologist for Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Boston University and Harvard Medical School. He trained in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, New York and in Infectious Diseases at Boston City Hospital and the Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the Department of Public Health in 1989, he was an infectious diseases consultant in private practice and, prior to that, on the staff of The Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston City Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. DeMaria is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. He serves on the Committee on Public Health and the Committee on Preparedness of the Massachusetts Medical Society and on the boards of the Massachusetts Public Health Association, The Public Health Museum and the Northeast Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.