Mario Venditti is a full professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at “Sapienza” University. He is the head of the “Nosocomial Infections” Program Unit of the Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital. He is vice president of the Italian Group for Antimicrobial Stewardship and a member of the board of the Italian Society of Anti-Infective Therapy. His research interests include new infectious syndromes and emerging pathogens, infective endocarditis, antimicrobial chemotherapy, antibiotic resistance, epidemiology, clinics, and therapy for nosocomial infections.