Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls#
| Membership Number: | 4525 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 – present Professor of Medical Microbiology, Vrije Universiteit, Medical School, and Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University medical centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2002 – 2007 Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Amsterdam, Medical School, and Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (position held at the same time as same position at VU University medical centre)
- November 2003 – May 2004 Visiting scientist, MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University, Oxford (Head: Ken Reid)
- 1984 - 1995 Staff member, Department of Medical Microbiology (head: prof. Dr. J. Verhoef), Utrecht University Hospital
- 1980 - 1983 Resident in Medical Microbiology, Department of Medical Microbiology (head: prof. Dr. J. Verhoef), Utrecht University Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 1978 - 1979 Research fellow at the Center for Blood Research, Boston, USA.
- 1977 - 1978 Resident in Internal Medicine, University Hospital Sint Rafaël, Leuven, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae
- Clinical microbiology
- Molecular pathogenesis of mycobacterial infections
- Antibiotic resistance, including epidemiology, phenotypic and genotypic detection
- Healthcare-associated infections, with emphasis on their clinical epidemiology
- Molecular tools for bacterial epidemiology
Honours and Awards
- 2017 ESCMID Fellow for professional excellence and outstanding service to the profession and the society (European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
- 2011 Gold Donders Medal for exceptional achievements as chairman of the Society of the "Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde"
- 2009 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK.
- 2008 APUA (Alliance for the Prudent use of Antibiotics) Leadership Award for exemplary leadership in controlling hospital infections and antibiotic resistance
