Dr Maristela has been an ID consultant for the Discipline of Transplantation of Liver and Organs of the Digestive System from 2005 until the present. She has also been working in the Infection Control Commission of Hospital das Clinicas of São Paulo University School of Medicine and as an infectious diseases’ assistant at Sao Paulo Cancer Institute. Her main research areas are bacterial infections among solid organ transplant, multidrug-resistant bacterial infection, infections related to implantable catheters, infectious among cancer patients and febrile neutropenia.