Larry Madoff

Dr. Larry Madoff is director of the Division of Epidemiology and Immunization at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) and professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center and Associate Director of Infection Control.

He is a graduate of Yale College and Tufts University School of Medicine. He trained in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell and received his Infectious Disease Fellowship training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Center program at Harvard Medical School. From 1989 until 2008, he was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School where he performed research on bacterial pathogenesis and vaccine design at the Channing Laboratory. He was an attending physician on the infectious disease service at Brigham and Women's Hospital and director of the Global Travel Health Clinic there.

Since 2002, Dr. Madoff has served as editor of ProMED (the program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases), an Internet-based emerging disease surveillance system with over 55,000 subscribers. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America and a member of the American Society of Microbiology, the Massachusetts Infection Disease Society, and the Massachusetts Medical Society.