Dr Caline Mattar

Caline Mattar is a Lebanese physician and currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Washington University in St Louis (WUSTL) in the United States since 2016.She is a past Chair of the Junior Doctors Network of the World Medical Association where she also serves as an advisor on infectious diseases, public health, and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). She has completed her medical school training at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, where she practiced medicine prior to moving to the United States to complete an Internal Medicine Residency and subsequently a fellowship in Infectious Diseases. Her research focuses on dissemination and implementation of infection prevention and antimicrobial resistance interventions in resources limited settings and her current work is in Ghana and Lebanon. She is an associate healthcare epidemiologist at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St Louis and serves on committees for the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. She has been nominated to the GDG by the World Health Professions Alliance representing over 20 million health workers globally.