Dr. Katherine Plewes completed her Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of British Columbia (UBC), followed by a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the University of Liverpool, the Clinician Investigator Program at UBC, and a DPhil in Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. In 2002, she started working in Southeast Asia with the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) and for the last 15 years has contributed to research focused on the pathophysiology and treatment of severe malaria at clinical field sites in Bangladesh and the DRC. In Vancouver, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UBC Division of Infectious Diseases; Co-director of the UBC Tropical and Geographic Medicine Intensive Short Course; British Columbia designate physician to the Public Health Agency of Canada Canadian Malaria Network; Malaria Subcommittee chair to the PHAC CATMAT, and Vancouver Site Director for the GeoSentinel Global Surveillance Network site.