Prof. of Infectious Diseases, Head of Infectious Disease
Dept. Diagnostic and Public Health, University of Verona, Italy
Evelina Tacconelli (MD, PhD) is Professor of Infectious Diseases, Head of the Division of Infectious Disease at the University Hospital of Verona, Italy and DZIF Research Clinical Unit for Healthcare-Associated Infections at the University Hospital of Tübingen, Germany. She has been Lecturer on Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. She was recipient of award from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) for research excellence. Consultant for WHO and ECDC on antimicrobial resistance and infection control. Main areas of her scientific interest are epidemiology, clinical and therapeutic aspects of healthcare-associated infections and preventive measures aimed to reduce the spreading of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. She is the Chair of the ESCMID EUCIC (European Committee for Infection Control). She serves on the International Advisory Board for Lancet Infectious Diseases, the Editorial Board for Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, and Scientific Committee for Clinical Microbiology and Infection. Author and co-author of more than 240 papers listed in SCI-JCR and NIH Medline.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Thursday, October 22, 2020
6:55am – 7:15am EDT
