Dr Kwee Chin Liew

Qualification: FRCPA FRACP MBBS BMedSci
Lab: Geelong
Areas Of Interest: Microbial Genomic, Bacteriology, Virology, CRISPR, Metagenomic
Speciality: Microbiology

Phone: (03) 5225 1144
Email: Kwee.ChinLiew@clinicallabs.com.au

Dr Kwee Chin Liew is a clinical microbiologist and Infectious Diseases physician. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne, where she was awarded MBBS/BMedSci, and is a fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA). She has completed fellowship at Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) and Melbourne Health. Her special interests include pathogen discovery, translating metagenomic next-generation sequencing into routine clinical practice, and exploring the excitement of CRISPR tool for pathogen detection to provide safe and quality care for patients. She holds an honorary appointment with the University of Melbourne and the Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, Barwon Health. Her most recent publication was on “A serological assay using Tropheryma whipplei antigens for the presumptive exclusion of Whipple disease” in Pathology journal. All her publications can be found on ResearchGate.