Boucher graduated with an undergraduate degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross in 1986 before earning a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

Boucher then went on a clinical and research fellowship to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, remaining there until 2000.

Boucher had served as the school’s dean ad interim since July 2021, when she was also named chief academic officer for Tufts Medicine, the parent health system for Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

[5] She is a professor at Tufts University[6] and the founding co-director of the Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance along with Ralph Isberg.

[7] She has also served as the Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the Tufts Medical Center,[8] and until assuming the deanship at Tufts University School of Medicine was Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases.