Prof Kirsty Lee Buising

Infectious Diseases Physician and Medical Director of Medical Services, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne 

Nationality – Australia

Professor Kirsty Buising is an Infectious Diseases Physician trained in Melbourne Australia. She currently works as a clinician at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital providing direct patient care and participating in hospital quality and safety services such as chairing the local antimicrobial stewardship and infection control committees.

Professor Buising is the co-lead of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. She co-leads the institution's activities for the UK Fleming fund providing One Health AMR training and mentorship to fellows from Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste. She also leads a consortium funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to build capacity in managing AMR in Pacific Island countries, and the Western pacific region.

Professor Buising previously served as the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship, a NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellence, at the University of Melbourne and she continues to supervise post graduate research fellows from medical, nursing and pharmacy backgrounds, both PhD and post-doctoral levels. Her team has developed national antibiotic auditing tools now used internationally. She has served for over 20 years in the writing group for the National antimicrobial prescribing guidelines in Australia - Therapeutic Guidelines Antibiotic. Her particular expertise is in antimicrobial stewardship, and she has provided expert advice and served on working groups and committees at state national and international levels.