Matteo Bassetti 

Matteo Bassetti is Head of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the Policlinico San Martino University Hospital in Genoa and Full Professor of Infectious Diseases of the University of Genoa, Italy. Dr. Bassetti studied at the University of Genoa School of Medicine and continued his medical education at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA with an Infectious Diseases fellowship.

Dr. Bassetti is Chair of the Critically Ill Study Group of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), President of the Italian Society of Anti-infective Therapy (SITA), and Member of the Executive Committee for the battle against antimicrobial resistance of the Italian Minister of Health (PNCAR). He is Member-elected (2018-2022) of International Council of the Immunocompromised Host Society (ICHS). Since 2019 he is member of the Council of International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He serves on the editorial board of several prestigious international journals. Author or co-author of 750 papers (H index 85; 30000 citations) published in international peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters on antibiotic therapy, fungal infections, antimicrobial resistances, infections in immunocompromised and critically ill patients.