Prof. Dr. Torsten Feldt
Head, Section Tropical Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Duesseldorf.
Infectious Diseases Consultant, Section Tropical Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Duesseldorf.
Deputy Director, Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine.
Torsten Feldt is an infectious disease physician and head of the Tropical Medicine Unit at the University Hospital of Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. He is also the deputy director of the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine in Asella, Ethiopia, and the deputy chairman of the German Society of Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine, and Global Health (DTG).
Over the past 15 years, he has coordinated research and capacity-building projects and networks in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as a researcher, clinician, and lecturer for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, the School of Medical Sciences and the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.
Since 2013, he has been conducting research projects in close collaboration with partners at Arsi University in Asella, Ethiopia, focusing on sepsis, the impact of antibiotic resistance (AMR), and the potential of innovative diagnostics including next-generation sequencing (NGS) and eHealth solutions. He is part of the COMBAT AMR in Africa Network and co-director of the “Sub-Saharan Africa Consortium for the Advancement of Innovative Research and Care in Sepsis” (STAIRS), a research consortium comprising ten institutions from seven African countries aimed to improve the management and outcomes of patients with life-threatening infections in sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on innovative approaches.