Dr. Sylvia Lemos Hinrichsen is an infectious disease specialist. She has a masters and doctorate in Tropical Medicine from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is licensed to practice with the CRM-PE under license # 6522.
Dr. Hinrichsen is a consultant in Biosecurity, Infection Control and Hospital Hygiene Risks, and is the head professor of Tropical Medicine at the UFPE.
She is the coordinating infectious disease specialist for the Programa de Stewardship de Antimicrobianos (PSA) do Nordeste (ISMEP).
Specialties / Areas of Interest
- Infectious diseases and parasites
- Biosecurity and infection control
- Hygiene risks in the hospital
- Hygiene risks internationally
- Traveler´´ health and tourism medicine
- Clinical microbiology associated with hospital processes
- Rational use of antimicrobials
Academic background
- MBA in MBA em Auditing in Health Services from the Facinter-Fatec Internacional
- Doctorate in Medicine from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
- Specialty in Infectology from the Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia
- Masters in Tropical Medicine from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
- Specialty in Internal Medicine from the Universidade de Pernambuco
- Degree in Medicine from theUniversidade de Pernambuco
Affiliations / Clinical Experience
- Consultant for Biosecurity, Infection Control and Hospital Hygiene Risks
- Coordinator of the Programa de Stewardship de Antimicrobianos (PSA) do Nordeste (ISMEP)
- Member Expert Steering Committee - Global Antimicrobial Stewardship Partnership Hub (GASPH)
- Consultant in Managing Quality and Safe Patient Care areas, and in Hospital Accreditation - International Standards
- Head professor in the Department of Tropical Medicine at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
- Assistant professor in Medicine at the Universidade de Pernambuco
- Revision editor for the “Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy”
- Superintendent of the Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco from november 2019 to april 2020
- Coordinator the Núcleo de Ensino, Pesquisa e Assistência em Infectologia (NEPAI) at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco between 1992 and 2012
Publications / Projects / Awards
- Author of the book “Biossegurança e Controle de Infecções - Risco Sanitário Hospitalar. 4ed.: Guanabara Koogan, 2023”
- Award in Coontributions to Medicine in Pernambuco and Promotion of New Talents from Infectologia, Sociedade Pernambucana de Infectologia/Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia (2012)
- Award “Mulheres que mudaram a história de Pernambuco, Casa da Imprensa/Forum da Mulher Advogada do Mercosul/AIP/COOMEB” (2011)
- SANTOS, JAIR FIGUEREDO DOS ; SILVA, JÚLIO CÉSAR GOMES DA ; VASCONCELOS, MARIA AMÁLIA RIBEIRO DE AMORIM ; HINRICHSEN, SYLVIA MARIA DE LEMOS . Perfil de suscetibilidade antimicrobiana em infecções do sítio cirúrgico em um hospital público de traumato-ortopedia no Nordeste do Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Análises Clínicas, v. 53, p. 299-306, 2022.
- TEBANO, GIANPIERO ; LI, GRACE ; BEOVIC, BOJANA ; BIELICKI, JULIA ; BRINK, ADRIAN ; ENANI, MUSHIRA A. ; GODMAN, BRIAN ; Hinrichsen, Sylvia Lemos ; KIBUULE, DAN ; GABRIEL, LEVY-HARA ; ODUYEBO, OYINLOLA ; SHARLAND, MIKE ; SINGH, SANJEEV ; WERTHEIM, HEIMAN F.L. ; NATHWANI, DILIP ; PULCINI, CÉLINE . Essential and forgotten antibiotics: An inventory in low- and middle-income countries. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS, v. 54, p. 273-282, 2019.
- DA SILVA, RENATA BALTAR ; NEVES, REJANE PEREIRA ; Hinrichsen, Sylvia Lemos ; DE LIMA-NETO, REGINALDO GONÇALVES . Candidemia in a public hospital in Northeastern Brazil: Epidemiological features and risk factors in critically ill patients. REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA DE MICOLOGIA, v. 36, p. 181-185, 2019.
- LEMOS, MARCELA COELHO ; PAIXÃO, ERIKA FALCÃO ; SOUZA SANTOS, MÁRIO ANDERSON RODRIGUES ; VILELLA, TATIANA DE AGUIAR SANTOS ; OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR, JORGE BELÉM ; LIRA, MARIA DA CONCEIÇÃO CAVALCANTI ; HINRICHSEN, SYLVIA MARIA DE LEMOS ; LIMA NETO, REGINALDO GONÇALVES . Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolates in a tertiary care hospital in Northeastern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Health Review, v. 2, p. 3373-3384, 2019.
- PULCINI, C. ; BINDA, F. ; LAMKANG, A.S. ; TRETT, A. ; CHARANI, E. ; GOFF, D.A. ; HARBARTH, S. ; Hinrichsen, S.L. ; LEVY-HARA, G. ; MENDELSON, M. ; NATHWANI, D. ; GUNTURU, R. ; SINGH, S. ; SRINIVASAN, A. ; THAMLIKITKUL, V. ; THURSKY, K. ; VLIEGHE, E. ; WERTHEIM, H. ; ZENG, M. ; GANDRA, S. ; LAXMINARAYAN, R. . Developing core elements and checklist items for global hospital antimicrobial stewardship programmes: a consensus approach. CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION, v. 25, p. 20-25, 2018.
- Outras publicações: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3307396716031157
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