Rate My Professor Suzanne Crowe

Emeritus Professor Suzanne Crowe AO is a physician-scientist affiliated with Monash University's Department of Infectious Diseases in the Faculty of Medicine. She earned her MBBS with honours in 1979 and Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1998 from Monash University. Her career began as a Medical Laboratory Scientist in Microbiology at Repatriation General Hospital (1968-1973), followed by internships, residencies, and registrarships at Monash University Department of Medicine, Alfred Hospital (1980-1983), and as Medical Registrar in Infectious Diseases at Fairfield Hospital (1984-1985). In 1986-1988, she served as Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco, funded by the Harkness Foundation Fellowship. Returning to Australia, she progressed from Senior Lecturer (1989-1995) and Associate Professor (1995-1999) to Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases (Personal Chair, 1999), and was appointed Emeritus Professor, Infectious Diseases, in 2019. At the Burnet Institute, she led Pathogenesis and Clinical Research (1989-present), Flow Cytometry Laboratory (1989-2017), Clinical Research Laboratory (1992-2017), Centre for Virology (2008-2013), and served as Associate Director (Clinical Research, 2013-2018), retiring in 2018. She was Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine at Alfred Hospital (1994-2019) and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2002-2018). In 1984, she co-founded Melbourne's first HIV Clinic at Fairfield Hospital, which became the Victorian HIV Service.

Professor Crowe's research centers on HIV pathogenesis, including the role of CD16+ monocyte subsets and macrophages in viral reservoirs, phagocytic dysfunction, and barrier permeability alterations. She developed low-cost assays for HIV monitoring in resource-constrained settings, such as Dynal Dyna beads CD4, Cavidi ExaVir viral load, and VISITECT CD4 point-of-care test, transferred to laboratories in developing countries. She has co-authored over 300 publications, six books, and 85 book chapters, including editing 'Management of the HIV-infected Patient' and contributing to 'Kucers' The Use of Antibiotics' (BMA Book Award, 2011). Major awards include Officer of the Order of Australia (AO, 2020) for service to health, biomedical research, and education; Member of the Order of Australia (AM, 2011); Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Medal (2008); Frank Fenner Award (2006); Lifetime Achievement Award, 5th International AIDS Conference, India (2005); Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship (1989-1993); Glaxo Award (1991); and Society for Leukocyte Biology Award (1993). She advised the WHO Global Program on AIDS for 25 years, presided over the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, led 50 HIV training programs in Asia-Pacific nations, mentored PhD students from multiple countries, and directed St Vincent’s Health Australia for nine years. A Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and Australian Institute of Company Directors, she serves as non-executive director for ASX-listed companies.