Paul Johnson Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Inaugural Research Conference 2017

Paul Johnson

Professor Paul Johnson is an infectious diseases physician who is currently the deputy director of the Infectious Diseases Department at Austin Health, a university of Melbourne teaching hospital. He has research interests in infection control, mycobacterial infections particularly Mycobacterium ulcerans, and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infections. Most recently he established a new research group with Professors Tim Stinear and Ben Howden that is investigating the emergence of hospital acquired Enterococcus faecium colonisation and infection in Australian hospitals (including VRE). Since 1998 he has been a member of a WHO Technical Advisory Group on Buruli ulcer (Mycobacterium ulcerans infection) and is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans (Western Pacific Region) located at VIDRL in the Doherty Institute. He has just returned from study leave with John Cryan and others at the APC Microbiome Institute, University College, Cork, Ireland.