Rima Moghnieh

Dr. Rima Moghnieh, an infectious disease specialist and researcher, has been practicing medicine in Lebanon since 1996. She has assumed leadership positions in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and in Antimicrobial Stewardship in several tertiary care hospitals in Lebanon. She is the former president of the Lebanese Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology. On the national level, she has been working on improving IPC practices in Lebanon, with a focus on hand hygiene, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and AMS since 2011. Since 2018, she has been appointed by the World Health Organization as an external consultant to develop the National Action Plan for the control of AMR in several Middle Eastern countries including Lebanon, Syria, UAE, Kuwait, Libya, Tunisia and Somalia. She is also an external consultant for the World Health Organization to strengthen, develop, and launch national IPC guidelines in Middle Eastern countries including Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan. Dr. Moghnieh has co-authored more than 45 publications in reputed peer-reviewed journals. Among her scholarly work is her leadership in publishing national clinical guidelines with ‘The Lebanese Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology’ members for management of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia in adults, febrile neutropenia in the context of AMR, urinary tract infections and complicated intra-abdominal infections. Dr. Moghnieh's research interest is multidisciplinary where she has principally co-authored articles in various fields of Infectious Diseases including: epidemiological studies on infectious complications in immunosuppressed and critically ill patient populations, the use of broad-spectrum systemic antibiotics and antifungals, antibiotic utilization reviews, AMR surveillance, IPC in hospitals, antimicrobial stewardship, in addition to COVID-19 epidemiology, prevention and vaccination in several reputed peer-reviewed journals.