Dr Wanda Cornistein

Dr Cornistein is a specialist in infectious diseases with over 18 years of experience managing critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs).

Her work has focused on infection prevention and control, as well as the development and implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programs at the hospital level. She currently leads the Infection Prevention and Control Service and the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Hospital Universitario Austral. She also serves as the Director of the Master's Program in Infection Prevention and Control at Austral University.

She has published national guidelines on healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, created an innovative postgraduate course on Infectious Disease Prevention at Austral University and participated in multicenter studies, such as the PREVAR project, which evaluates the prevalence, risk factors, and mortality of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms in ICUs in Argentina.

She is a member of the Argentine Societies of Infectious Diseases (SADI) and Intensive Care Medicine (SATI) and founding member of the Association for Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (INVERA). Her interests include healthcare-associated infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship and antimicrobial resistance and educating healthcare professionals in infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship.