Dr. Madeline Sterling is a practicing general internist and health services researcher. She is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and the director of the Initiative on Home Care Work at Cornell. Her research aims to improve health and healthcare delivery for adults with cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions so that they can remain at home, avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and age in place. To do so, she focuses on home health care, and in particular, training and empowering the home health aide workforce to improve patient care

Sterling received the Community-Engaged Practice & Innovation Award for her long-term community partnership with the Training and Employment Fund of 1199SEIU, the United States’ largest healthcare union. Through this partnership, Sterling is testing and implementing several interventions among home health aides and attendants to improve their ability to care for patients in the home, while improving their own health and that of their patients. Her research is not only improving patient care but ensuring that there is a well-supported workforce capable of caring for a rapidly aging population and mitigating the long-standing inequities that they have faced.