Prof. Zhiyong Zong (Chengdu, China)
Dr. Zong is a senior physician-scientist for infectious diseases and oversees the infectious diseases ward in West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. He served as the International Ambassador of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in 2011 and was awarded the Newton Advanced Fellowship by the Royal Society, UK. His expertise lies in the management of infections in critically ill or immunocompromised patients caused by multidrug-resistant organisms. His primary research interests include the epidemiology and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in Enterobacteriaceae and the prevention and control of multidrug-resistant organisms. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers in journals indexed by the Science Citation Index, such as Lancet Microbe, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Trends in Microbiology, and PLoS Medicine.
Dr. Zong is a senior physician-scientist for infectious diseases and oversees the infectious diseases ward in West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. He served as the International Ambassador of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in 2011 and was awarded the Newton Advanced Fellowship by the Royal Society, UK. His expertise lies in the management of infections in critically ill or immunocompromised patients caused by multidrug-resistant organisms. His primary research interests include the epidemiology and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in Enterobacteriaceae and the prevention and control of multidrug-resistant organisms. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers in journals indexed by the Science Citation Index, such as Lancet Microbe, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Trends in Microbiology, and PLoS Medicine.