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Professor
Christian Medical College, India
Disclosure(s): PFIZER: Grant/Research Support, Grant/Research Support
Dr Priscilla Rupali is a Professor and Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Christian Medical College Vellore in South India. She has been trained in New Zealand, USA and Peru. She has been working to promote the rational use of antibiotics and has many firsts to her credit. She has established a “Fellowship in General Infectious Diseases” which equips physicians working in secondary/tertiary care settings to make rational treatment plans for infections. Similarly Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) India is a ‘Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine’ programme providing high-quality training in tropical medicine and public health. She has pioneered a “Fellowship in Antimicrobial Stewardship for Pharmacists” to provide clinical pharmacists with training and expertise to establish their position as an integral part of the infection control and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) team. She is also the founding member of the India covid guidelines initiative which s a collection of senior expert clinicians, academics and methodologists in reputed institutions nationally, led by the Christian Medical College Vellore in partnership with the Clinical Infectious Diseases Society of India (CIDS) to develop guidelines for covid-19 applicable to Indian setting. She also is the secretary for the Clinical Infectious disease society (CIDS) India. She also works in liaison with WHO as methodologies for Cystic Echinococcus guidelines and has also currently taken the initiative to develop Brain Infection guidelines for India in collaboration with CIDS and the Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN).