Dr Priscilla Rupali

Dr Priscilla Rupali, MD DTMH CTH Ò , Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Christian Medical College Vellore in South India. Deputy Chair, Hospital Infection Control Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Christian Medical College

Dr Priscilla Rupli worked for1 1/2 years as a Senior ID fellow in the Department of Adult Infectious Diseases at Auckland City Hospital and subsequently underwent a "Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene" at the Universidad Cayetano Heredia at Lima, Peru which is affiliated to the University of Alabama Birmingham.

She runs a very popular Clinical Tropical Medicine course at CMC Vellore annually which provides lectures, bedside sessions and laboratory sessions by internationally acclaimed faculty. She has also been faculty of the "Fellowship in HIV Medicine" which was a pioneer distance learning course educating people in HIV Medicine in the early2000s when HAART was not freely available.

Dr Priscilla Rupli has also undergone formal training in "Transplant Infectious Diseases" at the Henry Ford  Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and then gone back and has been instrumental in establishing Transplant related services in her hospital and has been the founder of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Conference in Vellore, Chennai and Ludhiana  which combines Infectious Disease related issues in India both in Solid organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

She has also been instrumental in setting up and antimicrobial stewardship program in her hospital and plans to diversify to implement antimicrobial stewardship at the primary, secondary and tertiary care levels through various novel training programs targeting clinical pharmacists and physicians committed to working long term at secondary care hospitals.

Dr Priscilla Rupli holds extensive knowledge and experience in the field of enteric fever leading a number of studies with emphasis on treatment and multidrug resistance of Salmonella. The Infectious Diseases Department at CMC Vellore has been a pioneer in promoting Infectious Diseases as a clinical specialty in India and now is the 2^nd Department to run the DM in Infectious Diseases in the Country.