Professor of Infectious Diseases, Chair of Infection Control Program
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
Souha Kanj is currently a tenured Professor of Medicine, Chair of the Infection Control Program and co-Chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon. She is also Consulting Professor at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA, where she undertook her training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute associate during her training at Duke. She founded the infectious Diseases ID transplant service at DUke Unversity in 1994.
Professor Kanj is extensively well published, with more than 260 papers in international journals. She has also been an invited author of numerous book chapters, journal reviews and UpToDate® cards. Professor Kanj has contributed greatly to the work of the World Health Organization (WHO) in various programs. In 2020 she was appointed to serve on the WHO COVID-19 Guidance Development Group of experts (COVID-19 IPC GDG). She is currently a member of the WHO technical advisory group for AWaRE, fungal priority pathogens, and Diagnostic stewardship among others. She is an international advisor for The Lancet journal. In addition, she is a board member of various international organizations working on the different aspects of infection control, and antimicrobial stewardship such as the APUA, the ISAC, the SEDRIC, the GAP-ON€. She is also a member of the FUNDICU international consortium. She is currently President of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) and of the Lebanese Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (LSIDCM).
Her research interest is mainly focused on viral pandemics, antimicrobial resistance and stewardship, infectious diseases during wars, infection control, and fungal infections. She has been invited to speak and chair numerous regional and international conferences.
Professor Kanj is a fellow of the ACP, IDSA, RCP, ESCMID and FECMM.
She has served on panels for international guidelines such as IDSA vertebral osteomyelitis and the recent ECMM/ISHAM global mucormycosis, rare yeasts, and Candida guidelines as well as on positions papers by the FUNDICU projects.
She has received numerous awards and an honorary doctorate degree from Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL.
Disclosure(s): Gilead: Honoraria; Hikma: Honoraria; MSD: Honoraria; Pfizer: Honoraria
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