Editors and Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Giuseppe Nunnari, MD, Ph.D, MPH
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Prof. Giuseppe Nunnari earned his medical degree with Magna cum Laude honors from the University of Catania in 1996. He specialized in Infectious Diseases in 1999 and completed his Ph.D. in Microbiology in 2005. Additionally, he holds a Master’s in Public Health from Thomas Jefferson University, USA, where he gained extensive experience in HIV-1 pathogenesis and latent disease. Prof. Nunnari has held prominent positions at esteemed institutions, including Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Catania. Prof. Giuseppe Nunnari is a distinguished expert in infectious diseases with additional proficiency in public health and antimicrobial stewardship. He is a Full Professor of Infectious Diseases at both the University of Messina and the University of Catania. Since 2018, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine.” Prof. Nunnari has authored over 250 papers indexed in PubMed, significantly contributing to advancements in the field of infectious diseases.
Co-Editor in Chief
Giordano Madeddu, MD
Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Prof. Giordano Madeddu graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery in 1999 and became a specialist in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine with honors at the University of Sassari in 2003. In 2008, he was appointed as a researcher in Infectious Diseases at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at the University of Sassari, and in 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor.
Prof. Giordano Madeddu has a comprehensive teaching portfolio, offering courses in Infectious Diseases across various medical and dental disciplines at the University of Sassari. He is a member of the scientific committee for several research groups and contributes to the Panel of the Italian Guidelines on antiretroviral treatment and the clinical and diagnostic management of people living with HIV. From 2015 to 2018, he was a member of the ECDC expert panel on interventions for communicable diseases prevention and control in prisons and other custodial settings. His research focuses on non-infectious comorbidities in HIV patients, the epidemiology of HIV, and infectious diseases in prison settings. Prof. Madeddu has authored over 250 publications and currently has an h-index of 37.
Associate Editors
Andrea De Vito, MD
COVID-19
Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Andrea Marino, MD
Bacterial Infection
Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Lilian Abbo, MD
Antibiotic Stewardship
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; Miami Transplant Institute, Jackson Health System, Miami, FL, USA
Una O’Doherty, MD, Ph.D
Clinical Pathology
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Antonio Di Biagio, MD
Fungal Infection
Department of Health Sciences, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Emanuela Focà, MD
Viral Hepatitis
Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia and ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
Patrick Mallon, MD
HIV/AIDS
Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research (CEPHR), University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Agnese Colpani, MD
Negletted and Tropical Diseases
Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Emmanuele Venanzi Rullo, MD, Ph.D
Viral Infection
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Manuela Ceccarelli, MD
Hospital Infection
Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, ARNAS Garibaldi Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Marilia Rita Pinzone, MD
Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Andrea Calcagno, MD
Tubercolosis
Department of Medical Sciences, Infectious Diseases, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Daniel J. Grint, MD
Vaccines
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Editorial Board
Massimiliano Berretta, MD, Ph.D
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Samir K. Brahmachari, MD
Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi, India; CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CRRI, New Delhi, India
David Burger, MD
Department of Pharmacy, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Benedetto Maurizio Celesia, MD
ARNAS Garibaldi – P.O. Garibaldi-Nesima, Catania, Italy
Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Ph.D
Centre for Clinical Research, Epidemiology, Modelling and Evaluation (CREME), Institute for Global Health, UCL, London, UK
Antonio D’Avolio,
Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, Turin, Italy
Ian Frank, MD
Division of Infectious Disease, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Andrew Freedman, MD
Infectious Diseases Unit, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
Philippe A. Gallay, MD
Department of Immunology & Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
José Moltó, MD
Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain; Fundació Lluita contra la Sida (Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation), Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Aigerim Mustapayeva, MD
Radiology specialist, Department of Visual Diagnosis, Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakistan
Mirko Paiardini, MD
Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Matthias J. Schnell, MD
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Jefferson Vaccine Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Marco Siccardi, MD
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Guido Silvestri, MD
Yerkes Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Yerkes Nonhuman Primate Genomics Core, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Ahmed Qasim Mohammed Alhatemi, MD
Department of Internal Medicine, Al Nasiriyah Teaching Hospital, Thi Qar, Iraq
Stefania Stefani, MD
Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences (BIOMETEC), University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Matt Stevenson, MD
Department of Medicine, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, FL, USA
Kannan Subbaram, Ph.D, MD
School of Medicine, The Maldives National University, Male’, Maldives
Aylin Yilmaz, MD
Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Pankaj Singh, Ph.D
Department of Biotechnology, Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya, UP, India
Premalkumar M. Patel, MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Chizaram Onyeaghala, MD
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria
Nisha Singh, Ph.D
Department of Biochemistry, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India
Ahmed H. Hassan, MD
Mansoura University, Mansoura University Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt
Akhil Ravindra Kshirsagar, Ph.D.
Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
Vipin Kumar, Ph.D
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Aakash Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India
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