Matteo Bassetti, MD PhD

Professor 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.

Professor 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.
Until June 2019 he has been Head of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Santa Maria Misericordia University Hospital in Udine and Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Udine, Italy.

Professor Bassetti is President of the Italian Society of Anti-infective Therapy (SITA) and member of 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 member-elected (2018-2022) of International Council of the Immunocompromised Host Society (ICHS). From 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 660 papers (H index 70; 21000 citations) published in International peer-review journals and several chapter’s book on Antibiotic therapy, Fungal infections, Antimicrobial resistances, Infections in immunocompromised patients and critically ill patients.