Dr. Omar Cantillo-Barraza is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. He is a researcher at Grupo Biología y Control de Enfermedades Infecciosas, studying tropical diseases such as Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, malaria, and other vector-borne diseases that occur in Latin America. Dr. Cantillo-Barraza completed both his Master of Science (M.S.) and Ph.D. from the Universidad de Antioquía in Medellín. His primary research interests focus on Chagas disease and the triatomines that transmit Trypanosoma cruzi in Colombia and other regions of Latin America. He has active research projects in multiple regions of Colombia assessing the transmission of T. cruzi to humans, companion animals, and wildlife.