Katherine Plewes is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of British Columbia (UBC) since 2017, an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford specializing in clinical severe malaria in Bangladesh for the last 10 years, and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Health Professional-Investigator. She holds a DPhil in Clinical Medicine (University of Oxford), Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (University of Liverpool), specialist training in Infectious Diseases (UBC), and MD, MSc and BSc (University of Calgary). She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, College of Physician and Surgeons of BC, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She fulfills roles as the UBC Tropical and Geographic Medicine Intensive Short Course co-director, PHAC Canadian Malaria Network BC designate physician, Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT), and GeoSentinel Global Surveillance Network Vancouver site director. |