NATIONAL SPEAKER

Professor Asha Bowen is a clinician scientist working across the Perth Children’s Hospital as a paediatric infectious disease specialist and the Telethon Kids Institute as Head of the Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Team. In 2023, Asha and her team launched the second edition of the National Healthy Skin Guideline to guide clinicians in the recognition and evidence-based treatment of skin infections. Asha has more than 10 years’ experience leading infectious diseases research and investigator-initiated clinical trials focused on issues significant to Aboriginal child health and ARF prevention. Asha is the lead paediatrician on the SNAP Trial and conceptualised the inclusion of children alongside adults in this world first trial to improve outcomes for Staph aureus bloodstream infection, across the life course. Asha is currently the President of WSPID, the first ever female President in 30 years of the society’s history.