Priya Nori, MD

Dr. Priya Nori is an Associate 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 serves 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, the SHEA open access online journal as well as Clinical Infectious Diseases Photoquiz co-editor. Under her leadership, Montefiore’s ASP was awarded the IDSA’s Stewardship Center of Excellence distinction in 2018 and 2022. She is also course director of IDSNY’s pre-meeting workshop on stewardship, infection prevention, and hospital epidemiology. 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.