Dr Diamantis Plachouras

Principal expert antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections, group leader health-care-associated infections, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden 

Dr. Diamantis Plachouras is an infectious diseases physician. Since 2012, he has been working at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections (ARHAI) Section. His key activities have included surveillance of and response to health-care-associated infections and AMR in Europe, the development of guidelines on the prudent use of antimicrobials in human medicine and the development of indicators of antimicrobial stewardship. He was involved in the ECDC response team for the COVID-19 pandemic as technical lead and coordinator of the Infection Prevention and Control and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions team, coordinated the development of infection prevention and control guidance in healthcare settings and has been a member of the WHO COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Guidance Development Group. Dr. Plachouras received his medical diploma in 1994 and a doctorate degree in Medicine at the University of Athens, Greece. He specialised in internal medicine in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Greece and subsequently in infectious diseases and worked from 2006 until 2012 as a lecturer and assistant professor at the “Attikon” hospital of the University of Athens in Greece.