Maddalena Giannella, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, IRCCS Policlinico di Sant’Orsola, University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna-Italy
Maddalena Giannella graduated from University “La Sapienza”, Rome-Italy in 2003, and went on to complete his residency training in Internal Medicine at the same university in 2008. In 2012, he received PhD degree in Clinical Microbiology from University “Complutense”, Madrid-Spain. From 2008 to 2012, she worked as clinical researcher and infectious diseases consultant at the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid-Spain. Since 2013, she has been working as infectious diseases consultant and member of the antimicrobial stewardship team at the IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Bologna-Italy. From 2015 to 2018, she served as senior researcher at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna-Italy. Since 2018, she is associate professor of Infectious Diseases at the same university.
From 2016 to 2023 she served as Science Officer then as Secretary in the Executive Committee of the European Study Group of Bloodstream infection Endocarditis and Sepsis (ESGBIES) of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). Since 2023 she is Chair of the European Study Group of Infection in Immunocompromised hosts (ESGICH). Since 2021, she is associated editor of Transplant International the official journal of the European Society of Solid Organ Transplantation (ESOT). She is author of >200 articles published on national and international peer reviewed journals, H-index 45 (Scopus source). The main research fields include antibiotic resistant infections, infections in solid organ transplant recipients, sepsis and bloodstream infections.
