Theresa Madaline, M.D.

Healthcare Epidemiologist, Montefiore Health System

Dr. Madaline earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in 2008. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training at Mount Sinai in 2011 and graduated from the Einstein/Montefiore Infectious Diseases (ID) Fellowship program in 2013.  

After fellowship, Dr. Madaline joined the Montefiore/Einstein faculty as the co-director of the Microbiology and ID course at Einstein, later becoming the Clinical Director of ID Services at Montefiore’s Einstein Campus. She pioneered the Montefiore outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy program, utilizing a transitional care model to reduce 30-day readmissions. After completing a Clinical Quality Fellowship in 2016, she joined Montefiore’s Network Performance Group, leading the Health System’s sepsis and central line-associated bloodstream infection improvement initiatives. She was appointed Healthcare Epidemiologist for Montefiore Health System in 2018, overseeing the Infection Prevention and Control program, coordinating with Health Departments and regulatory agencies, and leading preparedness and outbreak response including the health system’s response to the COVID-19 surge in New York.

Among other initiatives, Dr. Madaline has spearheaded projects to improve infection prevention and control practices through an automated hand hygiene system in the Bronx and developed curricular innovations for Einstein medical students directed at infection prevention and patient safety. Her current research is focused on environmental strategies to reduce hospital-acquired infections, the use of multi-disciplinary teams to improve outcomes in patients with sepsis, improvement in the diagnosis of HIV in hospitalized pediatric patients in Malawi using rapid testing algorithms, and occupational health strategies to prevent COVID-19 among healthcare workers.