Despoina Koulenti

Specialisation(s): Specialist in internal medicine & intensive care Research focus: Infectious diseases in Critical Care, severe pneumonia, sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, MDR pathogens, antibiotic optimization, antibiotic stewardship, antifungal stewardship, infection control Teaching focus: High Fidelity Medical Simulation Function: Consultant, Department of Critical Care, King’s College NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Honorary Fellow (Academic appointment), Burns Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre (BTCCRC), UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland Dr Despoina Koulenti is a specialist physician in internal medicine & intensive care. Her research interest is infectious diseases, especially in the critical care setting. She received her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Dec 2012 through the University of Athens on the topic of intensive care unit (ICU) pneumonia. Her post-doc project was ‘Advancing infectious diseases research in critical care’ through the University of Queensland (supervisor Prof. Jeffrey Lipman).