Matteo Bassetti MD, PhD

Matteo Bassetti is Head of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the Policlinico San Martino University Hospital in Genoa and Full Professor of Infectious Diseases at 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 president of the Italian Society of Anti-infective Therapy (SITA) and a member of the executive committee for the battle against antimicrobial resistance of the Italian Minister of Health (PNCAR). He is co-chair of the Intra-abdominal Infections Study Group of the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC). He is a member-elected (2018-2022) of the International Council of the Immunocompromised Host Society (ICHS). Since 2019 he has been a member of the council of the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He serves on the editorial board of several prestigious international journals. Author or co-author of 650 papers (H index 67; 19500 citations) published in International peer-review journals and several chapters book on antibiotic therapy, fungal infections, antimicrobial resistances, infections in immunocompromised patients, and critically ill patients.