 | Dr. Margaret Hostetter |
Dr. Margaret K. Hostetter, the newly named Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics, is a specialist on pediatric infectious diseases and in the evaluation of children adopted internationally.
Chair of the pediatrics department, Hostetter is also a professor of microbial pathogenesis. She holds grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the March of Dimes for her studies on Streptococcus pneumoniae, the leading cause of death due to respiratory infections in children around the world, and on Candida. Her studies on Candida albicans focus on factors that increase risk of bloodstream infections in premature newborns and other immunocompromised hosts. She and members of her laboratory hold three patents for discoveries in these areas.
Hostetter came to Yale in 1998 and that year founded the Yale International Adoption Clinic, which provides comprehensive medical and developmental evaluations of children adopted from abroad. She co-founded a similar clinic at the University of Minnesota, where she served on the faculty 1982-1998.
Hostetter was director of the Yale Child Health Research Center from 1998 to 2002. She was named chair of pediatrics and physician-in-chief of the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital in 2002. Her research has been funded continuously by the NIH since 1983, and she will head the first study section for the Interdisciplinary Research grants of the NIH Roadmap Program. She is program director of the Pediatric Scientist Development Program, a multi-million dollar training grant for pediatricians funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
A graduate of Denison University, Hostetter earned her M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, graduating first in her class. She did her pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Children's Hospital Boston. She was an instructor there for two years before moving to the University of Minnesota, where she held the American Legion Heart Research Chair in Pediatrics and headed the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Hostetter's honors include the American Academy of Pediatrics Award for Excellence in Research, the Samuel Rosenthal Award for contributions to academic pediatrics, and the E. Mead Johnson Award for Pediatric Research from the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). She was the first woman elected to the presidency of SPR in 20 years.
She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the Institute of Medicine. She has taught the Yale course "Infection in Fiction," about illness as metaphor in 19th-century novels, and will present this year's Sherlock Holmes Lecture on July 8.
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