Efthymia Giannitsioti is an MD, PhD consultant in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the 1st Department of Propaedeutic and Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital Athens, Greece. She has a special clinical and scientific focus on endocarditis, bone and joint infections, implant-associated infections (mainly cardiovascular and orthopaedic device infections)hand hygiene and antimicrobial stewardship; she had a post-doctoral fellowship on infective endocarditis (Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Besancon, France, 2004–2005), ESCMID-granted Observership at Septic Surgical Unit (CHU, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009) and a short-term ID position (Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, CHU, Nancy, France 2012); research activities with a current publication h-index 32; since 2009, principal investigator in ICE (International Collaboration on Endocarditis) and since 2018, country delegate for EBJIS (European Bone and Joint Infection Society). Among the first participants of ESGIAI (2010), she is a member of the executive committee, serving as the education officer 2019-2023, tresurer 2023-2025 and chair of the group 2025-2027. She participated at the faculty of numerous international courses and congress and organized two webinars within ESGIAI until now. She is an associated editor in Frontiers in Microbiology