Biography
Dr Despoina Koulenti, MD, PhDBoard-certified in internal medicine & intensive care.
Current appointment: Consultant, Critical Care Department, King’s College Hospital, London, UK.
Academic appointments: Visiting Professor at the University of Ioannina, Greece; Visiting Professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece; Honorary Research Fellow at UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Australia.
PhD on ICU pneumonia (Athens University); Post-doctoral Research Fellowship on Critical Care Infections (Capacity Area Teaching) at The University of Queensland (Prof. Jeff Lipman’s group).Focus: Clinical research on hospital-acquired infections & sepsis (especially, ICU setting), sCAP/HAP/VAP, MDR pathogens, antibiotic optimisation, AMS/AFS, and Medical Education. Involvement in development, conduct, quality control and analysis of large clinical research projects in the field of ICU infections, and participation in expert advisory boards, steering, adjudications, and data safety monitoring committees. Panel member of the VAP prevention guidelines of ESCMID (underway). Participation as a faculty member in world-leading congresses, such as the ESICM Annual Congress, ESAIC, ESCMID, ISICEM, and WICC.
Publications: >150 peer-reviewed articles and international book chapters (h-index 50, Google Scholar; FWCI >3, SciVal).
Associate Editor: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing; Critical Care: Sepsis and Severe Infection;
Editorial Board member: Journal of Intensive Medicine.
Committees & SG involvement
Current: Member of the Executive Committee the SG on ICU Infections and Sepsis of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) and of the SG on Infections in Critically Ill patients (ESGCIP) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID); Clinical Liaison (ECL) of Greek ICUs of the European Clinical Research Alliance on Infectious Diseases (ECRAID);
Past:
2013-19: Chair, WG on Pneumonia, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM);
2023-24: Chair, Clinical Training Sub-Committee, ESICM;
2024-25: Chair, Academy Sub-Committee, ESICM,
2009-12: National Representative of Greece at ESICM Council;
2023-25: Scientific Collaborator in the field of hospital-acquired infections, National Public Health Organisation of Greece
Profiles:
Research
Centre for Critical Illness Research
CCIR, a cross-faculty centre for academic excellence, focusses on critical illness.CCIR brings together interdisciplinary academics and clinicians to translate early scientific breakthroughs into effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for critical illness and to enable healthy critical illness survivorship for children and adults.
Research
Centre for Critical Illness Research
CCIR, a cross-faculty centre for academic excellence, focusses on critical illness.CCIR brings together interdisciplinary academics and clinicians to translate early scientific breakthroughs into effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for critical illness and to enable healthy critical illness survivorship for children and adults.