Priya Nori, M.D.

Dr. Priya Nori is a Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Orthopedic Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She serves as Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP), Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy program (OPAT), and is Co-chair of the systems Antimicrobial Council at Montefiore Health System. She served as Program Director of the Infectious Diseases (ID) fellowship program from 2019-2022. She is an alumna of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she received the American Medical Women’s Association’s Glasgow-Rubin Achievement Award and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. She completed her internship at Baylor College of Medicine, residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell. She returned to Einstein/Montefiore for fellowship in infectious diseases then stayed on as faculty. Her primary contribution to the MHS/Einstein pandemic response has been as Physician Lead of the Montefiore COVID-19 Outpatient Therapeutics Program since December 2020.

She is widely published in medical education in stewardship and infection prevention, orthopedic hardware infections, novel diagnostic technology, and COVID-19 therapeutics. She served as chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) Subcommittee for Antimicrobial Stewardship Curricula, chair of the SHEA Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, and co-chaired the SHEA stewardship certificate track, 2019-2022. She is also Deputy Editor of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology and Clinical Infectious Diseases Photo Quiz co-editor. Under her leadership, Montefiore’s ASP was awarded the IDSA’s Stewardship Center of Excellence distinction in 2018, 2022, and 2024. She was awarded ID fellowship “teacher of the year” in 2015, the Department of Medicine “rising star” award in 2017, the "Sharon Silbiger Subspecialist Teacher of the Year" award in 2020, the March 2022 IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice's Featured Educator, and the SHEA 2023 Stewardship Scholar award.

1. Nori P, Madaline T, Munjal I, Bhar S, Pirofski L, Nosanchuk J, Guo Y, Chung P, Seo S, Del Castillo M, Porrovecchio A, Ostrowsky B, MD MPH. Developing Interactive Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention Curricula for Diverse Learners: A Tailored Approach. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 4, Issue 3, 1 July 2017, ofx117,https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx117
2. Madaline T, Nori P (co-first authorship), Mowrey W, Zukowski E, Sarwar U, Weston G, Ehrlich A, Ostrowsky B, Corpuz M, Pirofski L. Bundle in the Bronx: Impact of a Transition-of-Care Model of Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) on All Cause 30-day Hospital Readmissions. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1 April 2017, ofx097, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx097
3. Bartash R, Guo Y, Pope J, Saraiya N, and Nori P. Periprosthetic hip joint infection with Aspergillus terreus – a clinical case and a review of the literature. Medical Mycology Case Reports, Volume 18, December 2017, Pages 24-27
4. Bartash R and Nori P. Beta-lactam combination therapy for treatment of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus species bacteremias: A summary and appraisal of the evidence. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. August 5, 2017
5. Hassan S, Saraiya N, Kahn M, and Nori P. Treatment of a Complex Orthopedic Infection due to Extensively Drug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. BMJ Case Reports. 2018; doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-223202
6. Mittal J, Szymczak W, Robbins N., Harris C, and Nori P. An Unusual Cause of Community-acquired Pneumonia. ID Cases. 26 Dec 2017, 11:41-43
7. Luther VP, Shnekendorf R, Abbo LM, Advani S, Armstrong WA, Barsoumian AE, Beeler C, Bystritsky R, Cherabuddi K, Cohen S, Hamilton KW, Ince D, Justo JA, Logan, A Lynch JB, Nori P, Ohl CA, Patel PK, Pottinger PS, Schwartz B, Stack C, Zhou Y; Antimicrobial Stewardship Training for Infectious Diseases Fellows: Program Directors Identify a Curriculum Need, Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciy332, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy332
8. Mittal J, Szymczak W, Guo Y….and Nori, P. Two for the Price of One – An Emerging Infectious Disease in a Returning Traveller to New York City. BMJ Cases. June 2018
9. Cowman K, Mittal J, Weston G, Harris E. Shapiro L, Schlair Sheira, Park S, and Nori P. Understanding Drivers of Influenza-like-illness Presenteeism within Training Programs: A Survey of Trainees and Their Program Directors. American Journal of Infection Control, in press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.02.004
10. Nori P, Bartash R, Cowman K, Dackis M, Pirofski L. Is Burnout Infectious? Understanding Drivers of Burnout and Job Satisfaction among Academic Infectious Diseases Physicians, Open Forum Infectious Diseases. ofz092 https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz092
11. Nori P, Cowman K, Jezek A, Nosanchuk JD, Slosar-Cheah M, Sarwar U, Bartash R, Ostrowsky B. Faces of Resistance: Using Real-world Patients and Their Advocates to Teach Medical Students about Antimicrobial Stewardship, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, ofz487, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz487
12. Baron S, Ostrowsky B, Nori P, et al. Screening of Clostridiodes difficile carriers in an urban academic medical center: understanding implications of diseases. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1-5. doi:10.1017/ice.209.309
13. Bartash R, Cowman K, Szymczak W, Guo Y, Ostrowsky B, Binder A, Sheridan C, Levi M, Gialanella P, and Nori P. Bundled approach to stewardship for febrile neutropenia using local treatment guidelines, MRSA epidemiology, and antibiotic-use ratios. Journal of Oncology Practice, https://doi.org/10.1200/JOP.19.00492
14. Wadskier-Montagne F, Cowman K, Szymczak W, Weston G, Guo Y, Bartash R, Levi M, and Nori P. Diagnostic Stewardship of Clostridioides difficile Polymerase Chain Reaction Results from Syndromic Diarrhea Panel and Implications for Patient Outcomes. Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease. Accepted February 27, 2020.
15. Nori P, Nadeem N, Saraiya N, Szymczak W, Boland-Reardon C, Kahn M. Beta-hemolytic group a streptococcal orthopaedic infections: Our institutional experience and review of the literature. J Orthop. 2020 Mar 24;21:150-154. doi: 10.1016/j.jor.2020.03.015. eCollection 2020 Sep-Oct. Review.
16. Stevens MP, Patel PK, and Nori P. Involving antimicrobial stewardship programs in COVID-19 response efforts: All hands on deck. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Mar 13:1-2. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.69. [Epub ahead of print] 
17. Bushman D, Alroy KA, Greene SK, ...Nori, P., et al. Detection and Genetic Characterization of Community-Based SARS-CoV-2 Infections – New York City, March 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2020;69:918-922. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mwr.mm6928a5external_icon.
18. Nori, P., Cowman, K., Chen, V., Bartash R., Szymczak, W., Madaline, T.,…Guo Y. (2020). Bacterial and Fungal Co-Infections in COVID-19 Patients Hospitalized During the New York City Pandemic Surge. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1-13. doi:10.1017/ice.2020.368
19. Punjabi, C., Madaline, T., Gendlina, I., Chen, V., Nori, P., & Pirofski, L. (2020). Prevalence of MRSA in Respiratory cultures and Diagnostic Performance of the MRSA Nasal PCR In Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 Pneumonia. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1-8. doi:10.1017/ice.2020.440
20. Stevens MP, Patel PK, and Nori, P. Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs and Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19: A New Paradigm for Pre-Authorization? [published online ahead of print, 2020 Sep 9]. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020;1-4. doi:10.1017/ice.2020.459