Dr. Natividad Benito is a Senior Consultant of Infectious Diseases at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain. She is also an Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. She obtained her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from the University of Salamanca in 1990, her Master’s degree in clinical research methodology from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2002, and her Ph.D. in Medicine from Universitat de Barcelona in 2005. Her research interests include prosthetic joint infection; bone and joint infection; heathcare-related infections; Nosocomial infections; endocarditis; and infections in solid-transplan recipients. She is also a member of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.