Senior Lecturer/Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician
University of Sydney/The Children's Hospital at Westmead
New York, NY, United States
Ameneh Khatami, is a Senior Lecturer for The University of Sydney, and a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, in Australia. Ameneh has worked and trained in clinical and academic institutes in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and New York. She is experienced in designing and running clinical trials and is on steering committees for the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network and the Australia and NZ Paediatric Infectious Diseases Group. Her current primary area of research interest is in the development of novel therapeutic options for difficult-to-treat infections, including phage therapy. Dr Khatami was the first clinician in Australia to treat a paediatric patient with intravenous phage (in 2019) for a highly resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bone infection, and to date, she has overseen the treatment of 8 paediatric patients using a variety of phages; (including genetically modified phages). Dr Khatami is the Clinical Lead and co-Deputy Director for Phage Australia and has led the development of the first nationally endorsed, standardised protocol for administration and monitoring of phage therapy for adults and children.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
261 - Personalized Phage Therapy
Saturday, October 19, 2024
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US PT
607 - Therapeutic Phage Monitoring: Application in Children
Saturday, October 19, 2024
3:40 PM – 4:05 PM US PT