John F. Madden, MD

Dr. Madden was educated in NYC, attending St. John’s University (BS), then the Touro College Physician Assistant Program (BS), and worked as a PA in Harlem until joining the second class at St. George’s University School of Medicine in 1977. Dr. Madden did an IM residency at Coney Island Hospital (now South Brooklyn Hospital) and then an Emergency Medicine Residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx where he was Chief Resident. He and his family moved to Delaware and John became the Co-Director of the Hahnemann University Hospital ED, the first Level 1 Trauma Center in Philadelphia where he helped start the University MedEvac Helicopter Program. He was named Associate Dean of Students (US) at SGU in 1986, a position he holds to this day. After several years he joined the staff of what is now the ChristianaCare Health System in Delaware where he was faculty for residents at their EM, EM-IM and EM-FM residency programs and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Jefferson University College of Medicine. At ChristianaCare, Dr. Madden served as Associate Chair of the Emergency Department, President of the Medical-Dental Staff and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the healthcare system. He also found time to be the Medical Director of the LifeNet helicopter and CareNet, a ground ambulance system until his retirement from clinical medicine in 2018. Dr. Madden remains as the Associate Dean of Students for the US and heads a team that provides guidance to the SGU medical students.