Dr. Larry Madoff is an infectious disease physician specializing in the epidemiology of emerging pathogens, bacterial pathogenesis, and international health. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts-Chan Medical School and Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Madoff serves as Medical Director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.  He is an attending on the inpatient infectious disease service at UMass Memorial Medical Center. 

Dr. Madoff directed the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), from 2002 to 2021 and is Editor Emeritus. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, past President of the U.S. Lancefield Streptococcal Research Society, a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. A graduate of Yale College and Tufts Medical School, he performed his Internal Medicine Residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and his Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Harvard Medical School-Longwood program.  Dr. Madoff is the recipient of the 2021 D.A. Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Health from the Infectious Disease Society of America.