FACULTY

Buetti N.

Niccolò Buetti studied medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases with focus on Infection Control and Prevention. He worked as a consultant at the Bern University Hospital and was deputy-head of research and development of the Swiss National Center for Infection Control from 2017 to 2018. In 2019, he obtained a Master degree in clinical epidemiology and healthcare research from the Sorbonne University of Paris, France. He worked at the IAME laboratory in Paris from 2018 to 2020, he obtained a PhD degree in clinical epidemiology at the University of Paris in 2021. He is currently working at Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals. In 2020 he received the young investigator award from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Buetti’s research interests lie primarily in the epidemiology of community- and hospital-acquired bloodstream infections as well as in the development of preventive measures and management strategies for intravascular catheter-related infections, with a strong focus on critically ill patients. Since 2021 he has the lead of the national intravascular catheter infection surveillance program financed by the federal office of public health. He was the lead/first author of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and society and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) practice recommendation “Strategies to prevent central-line–associated bloodstream infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update”.