Head of ID division
American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon
Souha Kanj is currently a tenured Professor of Medicine, Associate Vice President for Global Affairs, Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Chair of the Infection Control Program and co-Chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon. She is also Consulting Professor at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA, where she undertook her training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute associate during her training at Duke.
Professor Kanj is extensively published, with more than 260 papers in international journals. She has also been an invited author of numerous book chapters, journal reviews and UpToDate® cards. Professor Kanj has contributed greatly to the work of the World Health Organization (WHO) in various programs. In 2020 she was appointed to serve on the WHO COVID-19 Guidance Development Group of experts (COVID-19 IPC GDG). She is an international advisor for The Lancet journal. In addition, she is a board member of various international organizations working on the different aspects of infection control, and antimicrobial stewardship such as the APUA, the ISAC, the SEDRIC, the GAP-ON€. She is also a member of the FUNDICU international consortium.
Her research interest is mainly focus on viral pandemics, antimicrobial resistance and stewardship, infectious diseases during wars, infection control, and fungal infections. She has been invited to speak and chair numerous regional and international conferences.
Professor Kanj is a fellow of the ACP, the FIDSA, the FRCP, the ESCMID and the FECMM.
She has served on panels for international guidelines such as IDSA vertebral osteomyelitis and the recent ECMM/ISHAM global mucormycosis, and the rare yeasts guidelines as well as on positions papers by the FUNDICU projects. She is a member of the group working on the ECMM/ISHAM guidelines for invasive candidiasis.