Associate Professor Trisha Peel

Associate Professor Trisha Peel (MBBShons, FRACP, GradCertClinRes, PhD) is a leading Infectious Diseases Clinician-Researcher. Her research is focussed on the prevention of perioperative infections and the optimisation of prophylactic antibiotics.

Trisha is involved in a number of large, multinational NHMRC funded trials in this area including the ASAP trial, investigating the role of vancomycin in joint replacement surgery and the TRIGS trial, investigating the role of TXA in abdominal surgery. She holds several key appointments, including Clinical Lead at Epworth Healthcare, Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship Physician at Alfred Health and Lead of the Surgical Infections Research Group and NHMRC Career Development Fellow at Monash University.