Anton Peleg

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Anton Peleg, Australia

Dr. Anton Peleg is an Infectious Diseases Physician from the Alfred Hospital, and a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Microbiology at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
He completed his infectious diseases clinical training in Australia in 2005 and then went to the USA for four years and worked at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital.
He completed a Masters of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health, and also completed a PhD in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.
His research interests are in hospital-acquired infections, antibiotic resistance and mechanisms of pathogenesis.
He returned to Australia in 2010 and is a Chief Investigator on Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grants, and has his own independent laboratory research group.
He is also an active clinician working in the area of hospital-acquired infections and transplant infectious diseases.
He is a committee member of the Clinical Research Network of the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases and the Taskforce against Multidrug-resistant gram-negative Bacteria for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare.
He has received numerous national and international awards for his advanced research and contribution to Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.

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