Director, Immunocompromised Host Section, Division of Infectious Diseases
Medical Director, Infection Control & Antimicrobial Stewardship, Sylvester Cancer Center
Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
Michele Ilene Morris, M.D., FIDSA, FAST is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and director of the Immunocompromised Host Section in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She has spent the last 20 years of her career focusing her clinical practice and research efforts on transplant infectious diseases, with special attention to the area of emerging infections in transplant. Dr. Morris is also medical director of Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship at Sylvester Cancer Center, and fellowship director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 8 book chapters. She is a senior editor of the Emerging Transplant Infections textbook, published in 2021. Dr. Morris has delivered numerous presentations at national and international meetings, including invited lectures on five continents. She is a past president of The Transplantation Society’s Transplant Infectious Disease Section. She is an active member of the American Society of Transplantation’s Infectious Diseases Community of Practice (ID-COP) and a previous executive board member.