Daniel Lew

Prof. Daniel Lew, MD, is clinical infectious diseases physician and President of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the Geneva University Hospitals as well as Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Geneva Medical School. He is President of the Swiss Academic Foundation for Education in Infectious Diseases and member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He obtained his MD degree from Geneva University in 1976 and specialized in infectious diseases both in Geneva and then subsequently at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. In the past he served as Chief of the Service of Infectious Diseases, and Chief of the Academic Department of Internal Medicine at the Geneva University Hospital.

He is a recipient of numerous scientific awards and grants for his research work. Professor Lew lectures widely, acts both as reviewer and editor for several major scientific journals, and is author of many publications on neutrophil function, bacterial pathogenesis and drug resistance. Prof. Daniel Lew is past President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID).