Helen M. Shields, MD, is a professor of medicine Harvard Medical School and the associate chief of the division of medical communications in the department of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, both in Boston.
Dr. Shields is also the chair of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Advisory Committee at Harvard University's Risk Management Foundation. She is a winner of the Distinguished Educator Award from the American Gastroenterological Association.
Dr. Shields earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and completed a residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and a fellowship at University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia.