Cristina Mussini has been a Full Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy since 2011. She is also the Director of the Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico. She received her degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Modena in 1987 and completed a specialization in Infectious Diseases in 1990. She is a long-standing member of several organizations, including the National AIDS Committee of the Italian Ministry of Health from 2009 to 2016; the Governing Board of the European AIDS Clinical Society since 2000; and the Scientific Committees for the European AIDS Conferences, HIV Glasgow, and the Icona Cohort Study since 2008. She is Chair of the ESGIE, the ESCMID Study Group for Infections in the Elderly. She has taught several international courses, including the EACS HIV advanced course, the Izmir advanced HIV course in Turkey, the HIV course at Nairobi Kenyatta University in Kenya, the San Petersburg HIV Course, the Irkutsk HIV course in Russia, Teheran and Birjan HIV courses in Iran, and the Austrian-American Society Salzburg HIV course. In her 30 years in the field, she also set up collaborations with international colleagues and has published >650 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She organized the first EACS standard of care meeting in Rome, intending to get NGOs, political stakeholders, and clinicians to the same table to discuss HIV in Europe.