Dr Ivan Bastian
MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRCPA (Microbiology)

Dr. Ivan Bastian has been involved in the field of infectious diseases as a researcher or clinical microbiologist for 20 years. After completing his medical training in Melbourne (1983), his PhD in Darwin (1996), and his FRCPA-Microbiology training at IMVS (1997), he was awarded a Neil Hamilton Fairley Fellowship by NHMRC to work at the WHO Coordinating Laboratory for Tuberculosis (TB) in Antwerp, Belgium, between 1998-2000. Ivan returned to IMVS in 2000 as a clinical microbiology consultant. He is a member of the Australian Society for Microbiology, the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases and the Australian Society for Antimicrobials. In addition to general clinical microbiology, Ivan has continued his special interest in TB. As a result of the work by Ivan and Richard Lumb, the Principal Scientist in the IMVS Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, on TB projects in Indonesia and the Pacific, IMVS has been recognised as a WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, and the international reference laboratory for Indonesia, East Timor, Solomon Islands and Vietnam. Ivan is also the laboratory representative on Australia’s National TB Advisory Committee.