Paula Traktman is an American virologist and academic administrator at the Medical University of South Carolina.
[1][2] She attended Harvard University for her undergraduate degree and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for her PhD.
She then completed postdoctoral research appointments at MIT and Harvard Medical School.
She was hired at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1997, becoming the chairperson of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics.
In 2015 she joined the Medical University of South Carolina as the dean of its College of Graduate Studies.