Michael Shear

Dr. Shear is an Emergency Medicine trained physician who currently works at Harvard University Health Services. Prior to Harvard University Health Services, Dr. Shear was an attending physician at Emerson Hospital (Concord, MA), Mount Auburn Hospital (Cambridge, MA), and Lahey Clinic Medical Center (Burlington, MA).

Dr. Shear has extensive medical relief work experience in Micronesia with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in Haiti through the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and in Haiti with the International Medical Corps. Dr. Shear also practiced two years in Nepal

Since 1994, Dr. Shear has served as a physician member in the Commonwealth’s medical tribunals for the review of malpractice claims.

Dr. Shear received his medical doctorate (MD) from the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, completed his post-doctoral residency in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and received his bachelor of arts (BA) from Harvard College.