I am a medical doctor specialized in Microbiology, ID and PCI with more than 20 years of experience in different settings and countries. While still an undergraduate medicine student I have got involved in research and teaching in Microbiology and started training in clinical laboratories. I was fellowship at the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), Instituto Malbrán (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland) among others. Currently I practice Clinical Microbiology at one public hospital, where I am in charge of the Molecular Biology and Flow Citometry Laboratories, and one private hospital, where I work at the Bacteriology and the Molecular Biology Laboratories in Montevideo, Uruguay. I am a member of the National Investigators System and direct post-graduate students.