Dr Priscilla Rupali is a Professor from Department of Infectious Diseases at Christian Medical College Vellore in South India.She worked for 1 1/2 years as a Senior ID fellow in the Department of Adult Infectious Diseases at Auckland City Hospital and subsequently underwent a "Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene" at the Universidad Cayetano Heredia at Lima Peru.She runs a very popular Clinical Tropical Medicine course at CMC Vellore annually. She has also been faculty of the "Fellowship in HIV Medicine" which was a pioneer distance learning course educating people in HIV Medicine in the early 2000s when HAART was not freely available. She has also undergone formal training in "Transplant Infectious Diseases" at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and then gone back and has been instrumental in establishing Transplant related services in her hospital and has been the founder of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Conference which combines Infectious Disease related issues in India both in Solid organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. She has also been instrumental in setting up and antimicrobial stewardship program in her hospital and also take keen interest in antimicrobial stewardship at the primary, secondary and tertiary care levels through various novel training programs targeting clinical pharmacists and physicians.She holds extensive knowledge and experience in the field of enteric fever and tropical diseases. She also is a faculty for DM-ID.