Dr. Souha S. Kanj is a tenured Professor at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon, and Consulting Professor at Duke University Medical Center, USA, where she trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases (ID). She is currently Head of the Division of ID, Chair of the Infection Control and Prevention Program, and Co-Chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. She is extensively published and is currently involved in research projects on topics related to fungal infections. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Royal College of Physicians, the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and the European Confederation of Medical Mycology. She was nominated as president-elect of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy for November 2022. In 2019, she received an honorary doctorate from Radboud University in the Netherlands. Dr. Kanj has authored over 220 publications in peer-reviewed journals.