Professor Monica Slavin receives 2023 ASID Life Member Award
Professor Monica Slavin has been awarded the 2023 ASID Life Member Award at the Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide.
Professor Slavin is an Infectious Diseases physician; Director of Peter Mac's the Infectious Diseases Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; leads the Infections in the Immuncompromised Host Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital; Director of the NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellence; Director of the National Centre for Infections in Cancer (NCIC).
She is internationally recognised for identifying risk factors and improving early diagnosis and prevention of infection in patients whose immune systems are compromised. Over the course of her 26 year career she has made many, and lasting, contributions to research teaching and clinical medicine. She is held in high international regard for guidance on management and risk mitigation for patients who are at risk of life threatening infection.
Her original and novel research has changed clinical practice and resulted in new management guidelines, definitions of fungal infections for clinical trials and translation of new diagnostic tests into practice.
Monica is a distinguished infectious diseases clinician researcher making significant contributions to teaching, mentoring, innovative research and advocacy. From 2007-2014 she was a Councillor for ASID and was a founding member of the ASID Mycoses Interest Group (ANZMIG) in 1997.
During two decades of continuous service to ANZMIG as chair and executive committee member she has overseen and been integral to this group’s activities in promoting collaborative multicentre research and teaching in mycology. Under her leadership ANZMIG has defined the epidemiology of fungal infections in Australia (19 publications spanning epidemiology, susceptibility and whole genome sequencing).
Source: https://www.petermac.org/users/prof-monica-slavin
ASID President Professor Katie Flanagan presents Professor Slavin with her award.