Margaret Hostetter

Margaret Hostetter, MD, Adjunct Professor, joined Yale in 1998 as Director of the Yale Child Health Research Center and Chief of the Division of Immunology. She became Chair of Yale's Department of Pediatrics from 2002-2010. After retiring in 2020 from her subsequent position as Chair of Pediatrics and Director of the Research Foundation at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, Hostetter rejoined the Department of Pediatrics at Yale as an Adjunct Professor in 2021.

Hostetter is a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases and in the evaluation of internationally adopted children. Her studies of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a leading global respiratory pathogen, and of Candida albicans, a yeast that infects immunocompromised patients, were supported by the NIH and private foundations for more than 30 years.

For 20 years, she also served as program director of the Pediatric Scientist Development Program, a multi-million dollar national training program for pediatric physician-scientists funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Prior to coming to Yale, Hostetter held the American Legion Heart Research Chair in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota 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 is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Association of American Physicians, the ASCI, the American Pediatric Society, and the Society for Pediatric Research.