Prim.Irina Pristas, MD, is a specialist of clinical microbiology working at the Department for Clinical Microbiology and Hospital Infections at the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Croatia. Irina Pristas graduated from the Zagreb School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2002. She became a specialist in clinical microbiology in 2011. She works at the National Reference Laboratory for antimicrobial resistance surveillance on AMR detection and infection prevention. Her primary focus of interest is antimicrobial stewardship. Since 2022. she has been a head of the parasitology ward in the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases. Since 2017, she has been a teaching assistant at the Dental School of Medicine. Since 2019, she has been lecturing at the University of Applied Health Sciences. She is a certified psychotherapist, having completed a PhD program at the Croatian Institute for body-oriented psychotherapy. She is a member of Croatian Medical Chamber, the Croatian Society for Clinical Microbiology of the Croatian Medical Association, the Study Group for Antibiotic Resistance of the Croatian Society of Clinical Microbiology, and ESCMID.
Prim.Irina Pristas, MD, is a specialist of clinical microbiology working at the Department for Clinical Microbiology and Hospital Infections at the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Croatia. Irina Pristas graduated from the Zagreb School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2002. She became a specialist in clinical microbiology in 2011. She works at the National Reference Laboratory for antimicrobial resistance surveillance on AMR detection and infection prevention. Her primary focus of interest is antimicrobial stewardship. Since 2022. she has been a head of the parasitology ward in the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases. Since 2017, she has been a teaching assistant at the Dental School of Medicine. Since 2019, she has been lecturing at the University of Applied Health Sciences. She is a certified psychotherapist, having completed a PhD program at the Croatian Institute for body-oriented psychotherapy. She is a member of Croatian Medical Chamber, the Croatian Society for Clinical Microbiology of the Croatian Medical Association, the Study Group for Antibiotic Resistance of the Croatian Society of Clinical Microbiology, and ESCMID.