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Paolo Grossi is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy. He got his medical degree at the University of Milano (Italy). He attended the residency program on Infectious Diseases At the University of Pavia (Italy) and got the post-doctoral degree on Preventive and Community Medicine. Since the beginning of his career he performed his clinical and research activity at the Infectious Diseases Department of the University of Pavia. In 1993 he moved, as visiting professor, to the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he remained to the end of 1994. Since the year 2000 he is professor of Infectious Diseases and director of the residency programs in Infectious Diseases and in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. From February 2001 he is the Director of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of the Ospedale di Circolo and Fondazione Macchi of Varese, Italy, where, starting from April 2009 he is the Director of the Department of Transplantation. The main research interest is in the field of infectious complications in transplant recipients and he participated to many research project in this area. He is author or co-author of more than 200 publications in the field of infectious disease in immunocompromised patients. He was involved, since its beginning, in the clinical program of heart and lung transplantation, started in Italy in November 1985, with the position of consultant in infectious diseases. His research programs are on epidemiology, clinical presentation, natural history, immunological basis and treatment strategies of infections following solid organ transplantation. Furthermore, starting from 1999 he is the advisor for all infectious diseases related problems at the Italian National Centre for Transplantation in Italy and covers the role of “second opinion” for all organ donors with potentially transmissible infectious diseases. Since 2001 he is a member of the Steering Committee of the program of Liver, kidney, kidney-pancreas, Lung and Heart transplantation in HIV+ individuals in Italy. He was also involved in many research programs on epidemiology, cost evaluation and experimental use of new anti-retroviral drugs for HIV infected individuals. Since the beginning of his career he was involved in diagnosis and treatment of infectious complications of haematological patients, particularly adult and pediatric HSCT recipients. He is a member of the steering committee of th ESCMID Study Group on infections in Immunocompromised Host (ESGICH). In addition he attended the European Conference on Infections in Leukemia (ECIL).
In 2005 he joined, within a research agreement with the University of Insubria, the ISMETT/UPMC, Italy in Palermo. Ongoing research programs are focused on the incidence of infectious complications following living related liver transplantation, the rationale use of antimicrobials, the implementation of Hand Disinfection program, the evaluation of the DNAemia based pre-emptive therapy for CMV and EBV, the study of HHV-8 related diseases in transplant recipients and other activities related to infection control issues in the transplant setting. Starting from January 2012 he is the co-chair of the Infection Control Committee of the ISMETT.
In April 2013 he was elected co-Chair of the ID Council of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. In July 2013 he was nominated member of the WHO International Health Regulations Roster of Experts, as an expert in Essential health technologies (Transplantation services).

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