Cristiane Lamas is an infectious diseases physician. She graduated in Medicine at UERJ, Brazil, 1990; completed a fellowship in Internal Medicine, Intensive Care and Clinical Microbiology, 1993-1997, in England; completed her Medical Residency in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases at UERJ, 1997-1999; and earned her Master's Degree in Tropical Medicine in 2003 and her Doctorate in Tropical Medicine in 2008 at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz(FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro. She works in Rio de Janeiro as a permanent member of the Post-Graduate Course in Cardiovascular Sciences in Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, where she leads the research group on infective endocarditis, collaborating with the international group (International Collaboration on Endocarditis, ICE) since 2006. She also works as a consultant at the Evandro Chagas Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, and as the head coordinator of the Post-Graduate Course in Infectious Diseases at Afya-IPEMED. She taught Infectious Diseases to medical graduates at Unigranrio University from 2000 to 2022. Her main interests are infective endocarditis and other valve diseases, rickettsia strictu sensu and latu sensu (Bartonella spp, Coxiella burnetii), nosocomial infections, systemic mycosis, HIV/AIDS, and AIDS related opportunistic conditions. She is a member of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases (Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia) and of the International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases (ISCVID).