Professor Lilian Abbo

Chief for Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship at Jackson Health System, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Health System, Miami Florida, USA

Dr. Lilian Abbo, is the Chief for Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship at Jackson Health System and a Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Miami Transplant Institute. She graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, “Luis Razetti” Medical School. Completed her residency in Internal medicine at Jacobi Medical Center in NY and at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach followed by a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Her research and clinical expertise are focused on the management of complex solid organ transplant patients with multidrug resistant infections, infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship. She has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, several book chapters, has been an invited speaker in national and international meetings.