Paula Annunziato, MD received her Bachelor of Science in Biology at Creighton University in Omaha, NE and Medical Doctor degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX. She completed Pediatric training at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Rochester. 

Paula is Senior Vice President of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Global Clinical Development at Merck.

She resides in Montgomery County, PA with her husband Tom. Their two children are full-time students, one an undergraduate at Arizona State University and the other a graduate student at Columbia University.