Pratibha Kale is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences. She graduated from Government Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, and has an MD in microbiology from PGIMER, Chandigarh, with a senior residency from AIIMS, New Delhi, in 2015. She accomplished her DNB in 2013 and garnered the Membership of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in 2017.  She is an NABH assessor. She has partaken in the Infectious Disease Certificate Course in 2014. Her major research interests are mycology, post-transplant infections, and multidrug-resistant pathogens. She is the member secretary of the Hospital Infection Control Committee. She is an Associate of the Royal College of Pathologists, London, and the exam co-ordinator for the FRCPath examination. She has received an academic bronze medal at PGIMER and Dr Bederkar Award for Physiology (2002). She received the G.P. Agarwal Young Scientist Award, best oral paper presentation on “Comparison of responses of Aspergillus flavus and Alternaria alternata on activation and degranulation of eosinophils in allergic fungal rhinusinusitis” SIHAM in 2012.