Vitali Sintchenko

Vitali is an academic pathologist with Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney and Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology-Public Health, a translational research hub funded by the NSW Ministry of Health.

As a clinical microbiologist he leads NSW Public Health Pathogen Genomics service at the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research-NSW Health Pathology, and supervises the NSW Enteric and Mycobacterium Reference Laboratories. He is a Faculty member for Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR), a member of the Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute at the University of Sydney, and visiting senior research fellow at the Centre for Health Informatics, Macquarie University.