FACULTY

Koulenti D.

Despoina Koulenti is a senior consultant of Internal Medicine & Intensive Care in Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece, and, also, affiliated with The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia. Her research interests focus on severe respiratory infections and hospital-acquired infections and sepsis, especially in the critical care setting. In 2012, she gained her PhD from the University of Athens on the topic of pneumonia in the ICU and subsequently, she joined the group of Professor Jeffrey Lipman in UQ, where she was awarded a post-doctoral Research Fellowship on critical care infections (‘Advancing infectious diseases research in critical care’) with Capacity Area Teaching (focus on High fidelity Medical Simulation). She has significant experience in designing and conducting international multicentre studies and has participated in advisory, adjudication and data safety committees. From 2013 to 2019, she leaded the Working Group (WG) on Pneumonia of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). Currently, she is a member of the Clinical Training Committee of ESICM and member of the Executive Committee (Treasurer) of the WG on Infections in the ICU & Sepsis of the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISAC). https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/6271 ResearcherID: D-4851-2010 ORCID: 0000-0003-4364-2612 Scopus ID: 14012112900 Google Scholar ID: 1zNcctMAAAAJ