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[AS]  Dr Angelika Stary: Chlamydial diagnostics [with MEW]

Angelika Stary is a dermatovenerologist in Vienna and, for 14 years, Head of the Outpatients` Centre for the Diagnosis of Infectious Venero-Dermatological Diseases.

She was born in Vienna and graduated in medicine from the Medical University of Vienna. At the Institute of Virology (Prof. Ch. Kunz) she received a specialist education in medical virology. She subsequently transferred to clinical practice as a dermatovenerologist, working for several years as a senior doctor. In addition, she was associated with the Ludwig Boltzman Institute of the Dermatological Department of the University Hospital in Vienna, where she was responsible for research on the diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections. In 1995 she was granted the university title of „Universitätsdozent“ and is a part time lecturer at the University of Vienna.

Dr Stary has a special interest in chlamydial infections and their diagnosis. She organized and chaired the Third Conference of the European Society for Chlamydia research in 1996 in Vienna. She has published a number of  multi-centre comparisons of chlamydial diagnostic tests in Europe and has practical experience of virtually all available chlamydial diagnostic procedures. She is currently Chair of the sexually transmitted infections council of the Society for Dermatology and Venereology of Austria. Three years ago she was elected as the Regional Director for Europe of the International Society against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) and is organizing the next IUSTI-Europe Congress 2002 in Vienna. She is a board member of the International Society for STD Research (ISSTDR).

[MEW comments: Dr Stary has a flourishing practice in Vienna with three diagnostic laboratories. She is well regarded internationally for her comparative trials of chlamydial diagnostic tests and performed some of the initial trials of non invasive alternatives to genital tract sampling.  A frequent and welcome guest at international conferences, she is very much a practising physician].