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Priya Nori, M.D.

Priya Nori, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Medical Director, Antibiotic Stewardship Program

Area of Research: 1. Clinical decision support tools and antibiotic prescribing 2. Medical education in ID, stewardship, and infection prevention 3. Rapid diagnostic technology and stewardship 4. COVID-19 Pandemic response, monoclonal antibodies

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718.920.4622718.920.2746pnori@montefiore.org

Montefiore Medical Center
3411 Wayne Avenue, Room 4H
Bronx, NY 10467

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Dr. Priya Nori is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She serves as Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) and outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy program (OPAT) at Montefiore Health System and is Program Director of the Infectious Diseases (ID) fellowship program. She is an alumna of the Johns Hopkins University and 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. She oversees stewardship operations at the Bronx campuses and ambulatory sites. She also serves as Medical Director of the Montefiore OPAT program, an innovative ID care management program lead by the Montefiore CMO.

She leads Stewardship, Infection Prevention, and ID educational initiatives throughout the medical center. She is widely published in the area of educational curricula and decision-support tools for stewardship and infection prevention, orthopedic infections, and novel diagnostic technology for rapid microbe identification. She serves on the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) Subcommittee for Antimicrobial Stewardship Curricula, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s (CDC/SHEA) Outbreak Response Training Program Education Committee, the SHEA Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, and co-chairs the SHEA stewardship certificate track, 2019-2022. Under her leadership, Montefiore’s ASP was awarded the IDSA’s Stewardship Center of Excellence distinction in 2018. She is also course director of IDSNY’s fellows' course 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, and the "Sharon Silbiger Subspecialist Teacher of the Year" award in 2020. She directs the Montefiore COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Program since December 2020.

Selected Publications

COVID-19 Publications:

1. Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Core of COVID-19 Response Efforts: Implications for Sustaining and Building Programs. Mazdeyasna H, Nori P, Patel P, Doll M, Godbout E, Lee K, Noda AJ, Bearman G, Stevens MP.Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2020;22(9):23. doi: 10.1007/s11908-020-00734-x. Epub 2020 Jul 3.PMID: 32834785

2. Involving antimicrobial stewardship programs in COVID-19 response efforts: All hands on deck.Stevens MP, Patel PK, Nori P.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Jun;41(6):744-745. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.69.

3. Bacterial and fungal coinfections in COVID-19 patients hospitalized during the New York City pandemic surge. Nori P, Cowman K, Chen V, Bartash R, Szymczak W, Madaline T, Punjabi Katiyar C, Jain R, Aldrich M, Weston G, Gialanella P, Corpuz M, Gendlina I, Guo Y.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Jul 24:1-5. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.368. Online ahead of print.PMID: 32703320

4. Detection and Genetic Characterization of Community-Based SARS-CoV-2 Infections - New York City, March 2020. Bushman D, Alroy KA, Greene SK, Keating P, Wahnich A, Weiss D, Pathela P, Harrison C, Rakeman J, Langley G, Tong S, Tao Y, Uehara A, Queen K, Paden CR, Szymczak W, Orner EP, Nori P, Lai PA, Jacobson JL, Singh HK, Calfee DP, Westblade LF, Vasovic LV, Rand JH, Liu D, Singh V, Burns J, Prasad N; CDC COVID-19 Surge Laboratory Group;, Sell J.MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Jul 17;69(28):918-922. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6928a5.PMID: 32678072

5. Prevalence of MRSA in Respiratory cultures and Diagnostic Performance of the MRSA Nasal PCR In Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 Pneumonia. Punjabi C, Madaline T, Gendlina I, Chen V, Nori P, Pirofski LA.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Aug 26:1-8. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.440. Online ahead of print.PMID: 32843125

6. Emerging Co-Pathogens: New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase producing Enterobacterales Infections in New York City COVID-19 Patients. Nori P, Szymczak W, Puius Y, Sharma A, Cowman K, Gialanella P, Fleischner Z, Corpuz M, Torres-Isasiga J, Bartash R, Felsen U, Chen V, Guo Y.Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Sep 25:106179. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106179. Online ahead of print.PMID: 32987104

7. Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs and Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19: A New Paradigm for Pre-Authorization? Stevens MP, Patel PK, Nori P.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Sep 9:1-4. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.459. Online ahead of print.PMID: 32900407 No abstract available.

8. Antimicrobial Stewardship and Bamlanivimab: Opportunities for Outpatient Preauthorization? Patel, P., Nori, P., & Stevens, M. (2020). Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1-5. doi:10.1017/ice.2020.1343

9. Nori, P., Patel, P., & Stevens, M. (2020). Rational allocation of COVID-19 vaccines to healthcare personnel and patients: A role for antimicrobial stewardship programs? Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1-6. doi:10.1017/ice.2020.1393

10. Nori, P., Patel, P., & Stevens, M. (2021). Pandemic stewardship: Reflecting on new roles and contributions of antimicrobial stewardship programs during COVID-19. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1-5. doi:10.1017/ice.2021.172

11. Hoffman, E., Cowman, K., Nori, P. Respiratory Illness Presenteeism in Academic Medicine...A Conceivable COVID-19 Culture Change for the Better. J. Hosp. Med. 2021 April 21.

12. Cowman K., Guo Y., Pirofski, L... Nori P., Post-SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibody treatment hospitalizations as a sentinel for emergence of viral variants in New York City, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021;, ofab313, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab313

13. Chekuri S, Szymczak W, Goldstein D, Nori P, Marrero Rolon R, Spund B, Singh-Tan S, Mohrmann L, Andrei A, Southern W, Baron S. SARS-CoV-2 Coinfection with Additional Respiratory Virus Does Not Predict Severe Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Accepted to: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2021.

14. Assi, M., Abbas, S., Nori, P. et al. Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Collaboration During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Window of Opportunity. Curr Infect Dis Rep 23, 15 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-021-00759-w

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CDC and Pfizer at Odds Over Need for COVID-19 Booster Shots

Medscape - July 9, 2021

Priya Nori, M.D., discusses the disagreement between Pfizer and the Centers for Disease Control about COVID-19 booster shots, and says a more important issue is vaccine equity and the need to provide initial shots for healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Nori is associate professor of medicine and of orthopaedic surgery at Einstein and Montefiore.
Ready for the Next Pandemic? (Spoiler Alert: It's Coming)

Infection Control Today - March 2, 2021

Priya Nori, M.D., talks about the re-emergence of multi-drug resistant bacteria and fungi in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the important role infectious disease physicians can play in preventing outbreaks and ensuring patient safety. Dr. Nori is associate professor of medicine and of orthopaedics at Einstein and medical director of the antimicrobial stewardship program at Montefiore.

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