Karin Thursky MD

Professor Karin Thursky is the deputy head of Infectious Diseases at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; director (CIA) of the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne; director of the Guidance Group at the Royal Melbourne Hospital; and principal fellow in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology. An infectious diseases physician, she is a leader in the design and implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programs, with particular expertise in the use of computerised systems to support better antibiotic prescribing.