Prof. Noémie BOILLAT-BLANCO

Noémie Boillat Blanco is a clinician-researcher, senior consultant at the infectious diseases service at the University Hospital of Lausanne, and senior lecturer (Privat Docent) at the University of Lausanne. She leads the outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) unit and coordinates the DOMINO project (DOMicile avec suivi INfectiologique Optimalisé), aimed at improving patient transitions from hospital and the community.

She trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases and earned a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Basel. Her PhD research, conducted at Ifakara Health Institute in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2012-2015), focused on the comorbidity between communicable and non-communicable diseases, and on the causes of fever in the emergency department. Afterwards, she served as senior registrar in tropical medicine at Unisanté in Lausanne before joining the infectious disease unit at the University Hospital of Lausanne.

Research topics

Noémie Boillat Blanco’s research team focuses on developing, evaluating and implementing context-adapted decision support tools to optimize antibiotic prescribing (antimicrobial stewardship) and the use of diagnostic tests (diagnostic stewardship) across different healthcare settings worldwide, with a strong global health perspective.

Her main research areas include:

1. Optimizing Antibiotic Use in Respiratory Infections: From Evidence to Implementation
2. Diagnostic accuracy of tools across various healthcare settings
3. Artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate lung ultrasound implementation for pulmonary infections diagnosis

Team

Dre Véronique Suttels (post-doctorate student)

Dre Cécile Bessat (PhD student)

Dr Thomas Brahier (post-doctorate student)

Noémie Wafler (MD thesis student)

Alexia Roux (MD thesis student)

Nicola De Pasquale (MD thesis student)

Julien Oppliger (master student)

Alizé Erard (master student)

Alumni

Loic Lhopitallier (Research physician)

Florence Hoefler (MD thesis)

Florian Desgranges (MD thesis)

Mathias Van Singer (MD thesis)

Yoris Demars (MD thesis)

José Knüsli (MD thesis)

Sarika Hogendoorn (Master project)

Siméon Schaad (Master project)

Chloé Fischer (Master project)

Inès Chichignoud (Master project)

Joanna Gallay (Master project)

Marc Jeanneret (Master project)