Ghassan M. Matar
American University of Beirut and Medical Center, Lebanon
Biography
Ghassan M. Matar is currently a Professor in the Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology & Microbiology and Laboratory Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research at the Faculty of Medicine (CIDR), Faculty of Medicine- American University of Beirut (AUB). He was a post-doctoral fellow (Fulbright) at the Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was then appointed as Research Microbiologist at the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, CDC. He was also appointed as Assistant Dean at the Faculty of Health Sciences, AUB. He currently serves as resource advisor in the WHO-Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Agents (AGISAR), and as American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Ambassador to Lebanon and member of the ASM Ambassador Leadership Circle. He leads jointly with the Ministry of Public Health, Pulse Net Lebanon, under the sponsorship of WHO and CDC. He serves also as TOP-Regional moderator of ProMed-mail at the International Society for Infectious Diseases. To present he published 90 articles in refereed international journals and presented 115 abstracts in international, regional and local conferences. He received funding from intramural and various extramural sources