Personal Biography
Margaret L. Aldrich, MD, is Director, Pediatric Infection Control and Epidemiology at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Aldrich’s clinical focus is on general pediatric infectious diseases. She also has an interest in travel medicine, maternal-child transmission of infectious diseases and transitional care of HIV into adulthood.
In 1997, Dr. Aldrich received her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College of Columbia University. She attended Bard College from 2001 to 2005, pursuing her post-baccalaureate before attending St. George’s University School of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2009. She started her postdoctoral training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, completing a yearlong internship in 2011 followed by a three-year residency in internal medicine and pediatrics in 2014. In 2015, she pursued a two-year fellowship in infectious diseases at Montefiore.
For her research, Dr. Aldrich focuses on healthcare associated infections, emerging pathogens and vaccine preventable illness, sharing her work through peer-reviewed journals and invited presentations.
Dr. Aldrich is board certified in pediatrics, internal medicine and infectious diseases. She is a member of several professional societies including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.