Business of Nursing
Michael J. Shor, MPH, is the Managing Director of the Best Doctors Occupational Health Institute, part of Best Doctors, Inc. an international organization dedicated to improving quality of care within the United States and throughout the world. Shor is a former ICU nurse at what is now Boston Medical Center. He co-founded and served as President of Healthcare First, a managed occupational health plan acquired by a Division of Nationwide Insurance.
Michael is a prolific writer and speaker on contemporary medical care cost and quality issues. His professional interests focus on patient centered, evidence-based models of care and the science of integrative medicine. His professional writings have appeared in the Journal of Workers Compensation, Annals of the American Orthopedic Association among others.
He currently chairs the Massachusetts Bar Association Workplace Safety Taskforce Subcommittee on Opiate in Work-Related Injury. Michael is a graduate of the Boston University School of Public Health, Syracuse University School of Management, and the Newton Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing.
An avid skier, fly fisher, and restorer of classic, rusted out British sports cars, Michael lives with his wife, three terrific kids, and one sort-of housebroken golden retriever in Boston and Stockbridge, VT.
