Congratulations to Professor Orla Morrissey on prestigious appointment

Congratulations to Professor Orla Morrissey, who has been selected by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Executive Committee and the Standard and Practice Guideline Committee (SPGC) Leadership of IDSA as Vice-Chair of the IDSA Aspergillosis Guideline Panel. 

 As Vice-Chair, Orla will play a lead role in crafting the updated Aspergillosis Clinical Practice Guidelines. The Aspergillosis guidelines were first published in 2008 and updated in 2016. These guidelines are internationally recognised and regularly used by clinicians the world over. The guidelines have been cited 1862 times since 2016. 

Orla Morrissey recognised as thought leader in transplant infectious diseases research

Congratulations to Professor Orla Morrissey who has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation. The journal is ranked 2 in transplantation and 6 in Surgery with over two million downloads per year.

Prof Morrissey has been recognised most recently by the World Health Organisation, which has provided funding for antifungal stewardship to develop the Fungal Priority Pathogen List.

See more about Prof Morrissey's research here:

https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/infectious-diseases/research/groups/morrissey_group

Prof Orla Morrissey wins WHO funding for antifungal stewardship

Professor Orla Morrissey

Congratulations to Professor Orla Morrissey, Department of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University who, in collaboration with researchers from the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases Mycology Interest Group (ANZMIG) and the University of Sydney, was recently awarded funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to develop the Fungal Priority Pathogen List (PPL) and describe the research and development (R&D) antifungal and diagnostic pipeline. 

Immune recovery can be precisely measured: Infectious Diseases research wins award

Professor Orla Morrissey

Congratulations to the Department of Infectious Diseases’ Professor Orla Morrissey, who was senior author on a paper that gained a prestigious Publication of the Year Award at the 48th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology in December 2019.

The paper, which appeared in Clinical & Translational Immunology in October 2018, was one of two that received awards for Society publications at the conference. The honours recognise the most outstanding articles based on scientific merit published in the previous year.

Photo of the week: Dr Orla Morrissey

Dr Orla Morrissey presented at the CCS Monash Department of Infectious Diseases' highly successful advanced course (200 attendees) on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host last year. Along with Professor Anton Peleg, Orla set up and widely promoted the course to infectious diseases specialists around Australia.

Congratulations to Dr Orla Morrissey, who was recently appointed as a Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology! This prestigious award is in recognition of her international reputation as an outstanding and expert educator and researcher in the area of medical mycology. Her most recent publication is:

• Skov Dalgaard L, Nørgaard M, Povlsen JV, Morrissey O, Jespersen B, Jensen-Fangel S, Østergaard LJ, Schønheyder HC, Søgaard OS. Risk and prognosis of bacteremia and fungemia among first-time kidney transplant recipients: a population-based cohort study. Infect Dis (Lond). 2017 Apr;49(4):286-295. doi: 10.1080/23744235.2016.1248483. Epub 2016 Nov 8.

Infectious Diseases inaugural course a runaway success!

Prof Jay Fishman speaking at the course

The Department of Infectious Diseases at AMREP has for the first time offered a course on infection in the immuno-compromised host.

The course was born of the infectious diseases physician-researchers' clinical experience of managing immuno-compromised patients, including those suffering from cancer, those who have had transplants, and those taking monoclonal therapies, and the need to incorporate the most recent research findings into patient management.

Capacity audience for the course

The course was endorsed by the Australian Society of Infectious Diseases. We'll be publishing further highlights and more detail about the course, as it's planned to be run again in 2018. This year's was fully subscribed with 200 attendees and a long wait list.

Department of Infectious Diseases research is top rated by international peers

A/Prof Edwina Wright

At the recent Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held in Denver, Sept 10-13 2013 two papers by members of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University were featured in the Literature Review Session. One was co-authored by A/Prof Edwina Wright and the other by Dr Orla Morrissey. These two papers were considered as amongst the best infectious diseases papers published in the 12 months to date.