Committee

Convenors

**Dr Heather Wilson**

*Co-convener ASID ASM 2025*
Staff Specialist, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Canberra Hospital, ACT
Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University

**Dr Ian Marr**
*Co-convener ASID ASM 2025*
Staff Specialist, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Canberra Hospital, ACT
Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University

Organising Committee

**Dr Chong Wei Ong**

Deputy Director of Clinical Microbiology
Senior Staff Specialist, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Canberra Hospital and North Canberra Hospital, ACT

**Dr Renee Tuddenham**
Staff Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Canberra Hospital, ACT

**Dr Fabian Chiong**

Staff Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Canberra Hospital and North Canberra Hospital, ACT
Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University

**A/Professor Phillip Braslins**

Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University

**A/Professor Karina Kennedy**
Director of Clinical Microbiology
Senior Staff Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Infection Prevention and Control and Clinical Microbiology, Canberra Hospital, ACT
Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University

**Dr Celia Cooper**

Head of Infectious Diseases, the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, SA

**Dr Daniel Townsend**

Advanced Trainee, Infectious Diseases, Canberra Hospital, ACT

**Dr Wiraaj Agnihotri**
Infectious Diseases Physician, Canberra Health Services
Clinical Lecturer, Australian National University

We acknowledge that the conference is being held the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal people. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuing connection to land, water, and community and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. ASHM acknowledges Sovereignty in this country has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.