I am Yamile Zabana, the corresponding author of this work. I have performed my residency as agastroenterologist at Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol (Badalona). Since 2012, I have been a researcher and attending physician at MútuaTerrassa Hospital, also in Catalonia, Spain. Additionally, I am part of a research network called CIBERehd. My interests in the field of IBD are IBD and microscopic colitis pathophysiology and translational research, performing my PhD work on the transcriptomics of Crohn’s disease post-surgical recurrence. I am also very interested in infections in IBD having published scientific research on papilloma virus, tuberculosis and relevant infections in IBD. I am the leader of the prospective national registry of infections in IBD (INFEII study) coordinated within the Spanish Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Study Group (GETECCU). I am a co-author of the first and the third European evidence-based consensus on opportunistic infections in IBD. Finally, I am a member of ECCO and secretary and research coordinator of GETECCU.