Miki Nagao MD, PhD

Miki Nagao is a professor of Clinical Laboratory Medicine at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. She also serves as a director of the infection control team and clinical laboratory department at Kyoto University Hospital. She is a physician specializing in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology and is responsible for the antimicrobial stewardship program at KUH. She also serves as a chief in the COVID-19 research project organized by Kyoto University and the local government in Kyoto. The principal areas of her research are infection prevention strategy for nosocomial pathogens, molecular epidemiology of multi-drug resistant pathogens, and development of novel diagnostic tools.