Spyros Pournaras is a Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, University General Hospital Attikon, Athens, Greece. He completed his Ph.D. studies in medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently, he serves as Director of the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, “ATTIKON” University Hospital, NKUA; Chair of the Clinical Laboratories Division, “ATTIKON” University Hospital, NKUA; Chair of the Infection Control Committee, “ATTIKON” University Hospital, NKUA; Chair of the Infection Committee, 2nd Health District Administration of Greece.