Anna Teresa Palamara

Anna Teresa Palamara is the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and Full Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at Sapienza University of Rome. She graduated with honours in Medicine and Surgery at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. During her specialization in Dermatology and Venereology, she began her research activity focusing on infectious diseases. Author of more than 200 publications in peer-review journals and more than 600 technical documents, (H-index: 48; Total Citations: 7550), during her career, Prof. Palamara extended and consolidated her expertise on Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health and complex systems management, participating in multidisciplinary teams of experts, and collaborating with national and international agencies, included the Italian Ministry of Health, ECDC, and WHO. From 2013 to 2019, she has been President of the SIM, promoting educational and scientific activities. During pandemic, she contributed to the coordination of COVID-19 integrated and SARS-CoV-2-variants surveillances and served as scientific advisor of the COVID-19-Task Force of Sapienza University of Rome. From 2022 is a member of Technical-Healthcare Committee of the Ministry of Health (Section L). From 2023, Prof. Palamara servs as a member of the working group on AMR, the Board Governance of the Microbiology Network (AGENAS), and as ISS representative in the Steering Committee of the PNCAR 2022-2025.