Prof. Ramon Shaban

Professor Ramon Z. Shaban is Clinical Chair of Infection Prevention and Disease Control jointly appointed at the University of Sydney within the Sydney Nursing School and Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases of the Faculty of Medicine and Health, the New South Wales Biocontainment Centre and Western Sydney Local Health District, New South Wales Ministry of Health. Professor Shaban is a leading internationally credentialed expert infection control practitioner with expertise in high-consequence infectious diseases, disease control and emergency care. Locally as Clinical Chair he is District Director of Infection Prevention and Disease Control for Western Sydney Local Health District, where is provides strategic and operational leadership of infection prevention and control services. He is also Associate Director of the New South Wales Biocontainment Centre Committee, the state-of-the-art facility for the prevention, containment and management of high-consequence infectious disease located at Westmead Hospital in New South Wales. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Australasian Emergency Care and a Senior Editor for the journal Infection, Disease and Health.