Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Medical Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases
Division of Infectious Diseases
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Maricar Malinis, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery (Transplant) and the Medical Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. She completed trainings in Infectious Diseases, Geriatric Medicine and Transplant Infectious Diseases. She has been active in several national and international societies She is currently a councilor of the TID-TTS and the chair of the IDSA Immunocompromised Host Community of Practice. She is focused on clinical research involving transplant outcomes of older adults and people living with HIV.

Chief, Infectious Disease and Infection Control Service, IRCCS ISMETT-UPMC

Dr. Mularoni is Chief of the Infectious Disease and Infection Control Service at IRCCS ISMETT-UPMC. She graduated with a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 2004 from the Alma Mater Studiorum at the University of Bologna with a score of 110/110 cum laude. During her university studies, she participated in professional exchanges through the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) in Sudan, Mexico, and Brazil. She attended the Postgraduate School of Infectious Disease at the University of Genoa, during which she participated in the Kento Mwana Project at the Hôpital Régional des Armées (HRA) in Pointe Noire, Democratic Republic of Congo, for the prevention of HIV vertical transmission. She specialized in infectious diseases in 2008 with Prof. Claudio Viscoli, and completed her studies with a score of 60/60 cum laude. Dr. Mularoni worked as a consultant for infectious diseases at IRCCS Giannina Gaslini pediatric institute with Dr. Elio Castagnola and in 2010, moved to Bilbao, Spain (Cruces Hospital) with a grant from SIMIT (the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases) as a researcher on infections of newborns with very low weight at birth. In Bilbao, she worked with Dr. Miguel Montejo, Director of Infectious Diseases and consultant for the kidney and liver transplant center. She is a member of various national and international scientific societies, including SIMIT and ESCMID.
At IRCCS ISMETT-UPMC, she is a consultant for liver, kidney, pancreas, heart, and lung transplant programs for children and adults. She also works in hospital epidemiology, particularly with prevention and infection control for multi-resistant bacteria. Since 2016, she has been Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Her current research programs focus on the rational use of antimicrobial medications (Antimicrobial Stewardship), prevention of infections deriving from solid organ donors, management of post-transplant viral infections, and other activities related to infection control in transplantation.

III year Infectious Disease Fellow, University of Milano-Bicocca, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

Francesco Peracchi, MD.
I earned my medical degree from the University of Milano-Bicocca and I am currently a third-year Infectious Diseases fellow at the same university, with clinical training at Niguarda Hospital in Milan.
My primary research interests include infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in transplant recipients, as well as cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections in patients receiving CAR-T cell therapy. I am currently completing a research fellowship at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, focusing on these topics.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital

Dr. Sarah Taimur specializes in infectious diseases with a focus on the immunosuppressed host. Her clinical work includes consultation on oncology patients, candidates and recipients of solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Her research interests include MDRO infections in transplant donors and recipients, mechanical circulatory device infections, infections following heart transplantation, and endemic pathogens in the immunosuppressed host.

Associate Professor for Translational Mycology; Division of Infectious Diseases; Medical University of Graz, Austria

Martin Hoenigl, M.D., is an Associate Professor for Translational Mycology at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Graz, Austria and was before an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Hoenigl has particular interest in conducting research on clinical mycology, including fungal diagnostics, host-fungal pathogen interactions, and pharmacology of antifungal drugs; he is in the field for over 15 years, has published over 350 scientific papers, and is a Clarivate highly cited researcher. Dr. Hoenigl is the past president of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM). He serves as Associate Editor at Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID) and Deputy Editor at Mycopathologia. Find more information on Dr. Hoenigl on his Clinical Mycology YouTube channel and on Twitter, under @martinhoenigl.