Livio Pagano is Associated Professor of Hematology and Head of the "Geriatric Hematology and Rare Hematological malignancies" Unit. He is the last Chairman of the EORTC- Infectious Disease Group, President of SEIFEM, and Fellow of European Confederation of Medical Mycology (FECMM). He was the past president of FIMUA (Federazione Italiana Micologia Umana ed Animale.