Ojan Assadian received a medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1997 and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2000. Since 1999, he has been with the Medical University of Vienna, where he became an Associate Professor in Hygiene and Medical Microbiology in 2003. Since 2005, he worked for the Medical University of Vienna as a Senior Clinical Specialist and Chairperson of the Infection Prevention and Control Committee at Prince Court Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2008, he became acting Head of the Division of Hospital Hygiene/ Clinical Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology at the Medical University of Vienna. In 2015, he was appointed as Professor of Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention at the University of Huddersfield, England, where his research and teaching work focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infection, including wound infections. In 2018, he returned to Austria and continued his clinical work as a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine and a Consultant in Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control. Currently, he serves as Medical Director of the Regional Hospital Wiener Neustadt, Austria, a 900-bed tertiary care medical center.
