Angela von Nowakonski

Nowakonski had had leukemia for a few years, although she lived a normal life. She had retired from Unicamp and worked for two private clinical analysis laboratories in the city of Campinas. However, she contracted the COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil and was hospitalized for about two weeks at the Hospital of the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas. She died on 17 July 2020, at the age of 67.

In 1992, Nowakonski was one of the founding members of the Campinas Chapter of the São Paulo Association for the Study and Control of Hospital Infection (Associação Paulista de Estudos e Controle de Infecção Hospitalar - APECIH).

Nowakonski graduated in medicine at Unicamp, specializing in clinical pathology with residency at Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo (USP) and residency in clinical microbiology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Back to Unicamp, she earned the title of Master in Clinical Pathology. From 1987 onwards, she served as head of the Clinical Microbiology Sector, Clinical Pathology Division of the Clinics Hospital at Unicamp, being responsible for medical training in microbiology for residents of Clinical Pathology and Infectology.

Angela von Nowakonski (2 February 1953 – 17 July 2020) was a Brazilian physician, researcher and professor at the Institute of Clinical Pathology at the University of Campinas (Unicamp).