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TOP5 IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE EDITION 2026

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AGENDA

THURSDAY 26th MARCH, 2026

Morning session starts at 10:45 AM

SESSION I:
METHODOLOGY ON CLINICAL RESEARCH

SESSION II:
INNOVATION IN ANTI-INFECTIVE DRUGS

Afternoon session starts at 02:30 PM

SESSION III:
UNDERSTANDING THE MANY FACES OF RESISTANCE

SESSION IV:
ROLE OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANT INFECTIONS IN THE REAL WORLD:
EXPERIENCES FROM DIFFERENT SETTINGS

Session co-organized with the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC)

SESSION V:
ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP:
MOVING STANDARDS INTO PRACTICE BY MOBILISING THE POWER OF PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS

Session co-organized with British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC)

FRIDAY 27th MARCH, 2026

Morning session starts at 08:30 AM

SESSION I:
INTERACTIVE SESSION
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

SESSION II:
NEW INSIGHTS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SEPTIC SHOCK:
THE NEW SURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN GUIDELINES

Session co-organized with the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

SESSION III:
ADVANCES IN THE TREATMENT OF VIRAL AND BACTERIAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Afternoon session starts at 02:30 PM

SESSION IV:
IL PAZIENTE AL CENTRO:
SINERGIA TRA SCIENZA, ISTITUZIONI E INDUSTRIA

(NO ECM SESSION)

SESSION V:
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE IN WOMEN

Session co-organized with the Italian Society of Gynecology (SIGO)

SATURDAY 28th MARCH, 2026

SESSION I:
INTERACTIVE SESSION
NEW OPTIONS FOR TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

SESSION II:
A NEW ERA FOR THE TREATMENT OF INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS

SESSION III:
NEW APPROACHS TO SEVERE INFECTIONS

FACULTY

Najy Alsayed - A. Menarini
Massimo Andreoni - Rome, Italy
Andrea Antinori - Rome, Italy
Massimo Antonelli - Rome, Italy
Massimiliano Arcidiacono - Gilead
Matteo Bassetti - Genoa, Italy
Federica Basso - Advanz Pharma
Elena Giovanna Bignami - Parma, Italy
Paolo Bonfanti - Monza, Italy
Alberto Borghetti - Pisa, Italy
Alessio Butti - Sottosegretario di Stato alla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Italy
Mara Campitiello - Ministero della Salute, Italy
Antonella Castagna - Milan, Italy
Annamaria Cattelan - Padua, Italy
Marco Cavaleri - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Giovanni Cenderello - Sanremo, Italy
Elena Cimino - Pfizer
Andrea Coppola - Shionogi
Silvia Corcione - Turin, Italy
Andrea Cossarizza - Modena, Italy
Francesco De Rosa - Turin, Italy
Gabriella D'Ettorre - Rome, Italy
Jan De Waele - Ghent, Belgium
Lennie Derde - Utrecht, The Netherlands
Antonio Di Biagio - Genoa, Italy
Giovanni Di Perri - Turin, Italy
Adrian Egli - Zürich, Switzerland
Marco Falcone - Pisa, Italy
Emanuele Focà - Brescia, Italy
Frances Garraghan - Manchester, UK
Ivan Gentile - Naples, Italy
Cristina Gervasoni - Milan, Italy
Maddalena Giannella - Bologna, Italy
Corrado Girmenia - Rome, Italy
Andrea Gori - Milan, Italy
Paolo Antonio Grossi - Varese, Italy
Ryan Hamilton - Leicester, UK
David Jenkins - Leicester, UK
Souha S. Kanj - Beirut, Lebanon
Leonard Leibovici - Tel Aviv, Israel
Miriam Lichtner - Rome, Italy
Sergio Lo Caputo - Foggia, Italy
Giordano Madeddu - Sassari, Italy
Giulia Carla Marchetti - Milan, Italy
Claudio Maria Mastroianni - Rome, Italy
Francesco Menichetti - Perugia, Italy
Francesco Mennini - Ministero della Salute, Italy
Marianna Meschiari - Modena, Italy
Carlo Monti - AIFA - Ministero della Salute, Italy
Patricia Muñoz - Madrid, Spain
Filippo Murina - Milan, Italy
Cristina Mussini - Modena, Italy
Robert Giovanni Nisticò - Presidente AIFA, Italy
Giuseppe Nunnari - Catania, Italy
Alessandra Oliva - Rome, Italy
Chloe Orkin - London, UK
Fausto Orsomarso - Commissione Finanze, Intergruppo Parlamentare Prevenzione e Controllo Malattie Infettive, Italy
Gerardo Palmiero - Pisa, Italy
Marina Panfilo - MSD Italia
Saverio Parisi - Padua, Italy
David Paterson - Singapore
Mical Paul - Haifa, Israel
Federico Pea - Bologna, Italy
Alessandro Perrella - Naples, Italy
Jean Paul Pirnay - Brussels, Belgium
Jason Pogue - Ann Arbor, USA
Gianluca Polifrone - Fondazione Biotecnopolo, Siena
Francesca Poma - IQVIA
Davide Pugliese - Viatris
Massimo Puoti - Milan, Italy
Rino Rappuoli - Siena, Italy
Jordi Rello - Barcelona, Spain
Marco Ridolfi - Rome, Italy
Caterina Rizzo - Pisa, Italy
Jesus Rodriguez Baño - Seville, Spain
Alessandro Russo - Catanzaro, Italy
Annalisa Saracino - Bari, Italy
Loredana Sarmati - Rome, Italy
Orazio Schillaci - Ministro della Salute, Italy
Ryan Shields - Chapel Hill, USA
Carlo Signorelli - Milan, Italy
Robert Skov - Copenaghen, Denmark
Pranita Tamma - Philadelphia, USA
Carlo Tascini - Udine, Italy
Elizabeth Tayler - London, UK
Christian Terreaux - OM Pharma
Giusy Tiseo - Pisa, Italy
Carlo Torti - Rome, Italy
Vito Trojano - Bari, Italy
Mario Tumbarello - Siena, Italy
David van Duin - Chapel Hill, USA
Fabio Vecchio - ViiV Healthcare
Silvia Velo - Regione Toscana, Italy
Antonio Vena - Genoa, Italy
Pierluigi Viale - Bologna, Italy
Heinam Wertheim - Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dafna Yahav - Haifa, Israel
Francesco Zaffini - Presidente 10a Commissione Affari Sociali, Italy

SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT

PRESIDENT
Prof. Marco Falcone

Professor of Infectious Diseases
Director of Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine - University of Pisa
Director of the School of Specialisation in Infectious Diseases - University of Pisa

Prof. Alberto Borghetti

Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases
University Hospital of Pisa

Prof. Annamaria Cattelan

Professor of Infectious Diseases
Director of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Complex Operational Unit, Padua Hospital - Padua

Prof. Cristina Mussini

Professor of Infectious Diseases
Director of the Clinic of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
University Hospital Policlinico di Modena

Dr. Sandro Panese

Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit
Azienda Ulss 3 Serenissima – Mestre (VE)

Dr. Giusy Tiseo

Medical Director in Infectious Diseases
University Hospital of Pisa

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