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Mount Sinai Hospital is a University of Toronto patient care, teaching, and research centre.
Mount Sinai Hospital is a University of Toronto patient care, teaching, and research centre.

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Agron
Agron Plevneshi, M.D., M.Sc.
Study Co-ordinator,
Research Associate
Mount Sinai Hospital
600 University Ave., Room 210
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1X5
Phone #: 416-586-4800 Ext.3144
Fax #: 416-586-3140

Email: aplevneshi@mtsinai.on.ca

Biography

Agron Plevneshi is a native of Albania and arrived in Canada in 1998. At that time, he started in a volunteer position as a Research Assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children. After a great start at Sick Kids, he then joined the Microbiology Research Group at Mount Sinai Hospital in January of 2000.

Agron received both his M.D. and Ph.D. in the Science of Medicine while in Albania, and is currently taking post-graduate courses at Humber College for certification as a Clinical Research Assistant here in Canada. His current position in the department is as Study Co-ordinator for the Group A Strep Study and Canadian Bacterial Surveillance Network, where his duties include gathering information from the participating laboratories in both studies, co-ordinating the shipment of isolates and blood samples from all over Ontario and being a liaison with the Infection Control Practitioners and attending doctors of the respective laboratories.

In his previous roles, Agron has also been involved with the TIBDN studies, and has created information content for the department's website. Agron is also currently a member of the ACRP (Association of Clinical Research Professionals).

Recent Publications

  1. Kumar D, Humar A, Plevneshi A, Green K, Prasad GV, Siegal D; Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, McGeer A
    Invasive pneumococcal disease in solid organ transplant recipients--10-year prospective population surveillance
    Amer J of Trans. 7(5):1209-14, 5/1/2007.


  2. K.A. Green, A. McGeer, D. Church, K. Weiss, R. Davidson, D. Hoban, P. Kibsey, M. Kuhn, B. Toye, S. Pong-Porter, Y. Rzayev, A. Plevneshi, Canadian Bacterial Surveillance Network, D.E. Low.
    Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance in Canadian Strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae, 1988-2003.
    43th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, Illinois. 9/14/2003 - 9/17/2003.


  3. N. Daneman, A. McGeer, D.E. Low, M. McArthur, A. Plevneshi, P. Jessamine, K. Green.
    Nosocomial Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections in Ontario.
    43th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, Illinois. 9/14/2003 - 9/17/2003.


  4. Allison McGeer, K. Green, L. Landry-Rowe, E. Goldenberg, A. Plevneshi, D.E. Low, Toronto Invasive Bacterial Disease Network.
    Antibiotic (AB) Use and AB Resistance in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) in Toronto, Canada.
    41st INTERSCIENCE CONFERENCE ON ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY (ICAAC), Chicago, Illinois, September 22-25, 2001.
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