Dr. Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi is the Assistant Director of Microbiology at the Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He holds a Ph.D. in Fundamental Medical Sciences from the Universidad de los Andes (VE) in 2017. He was the Academic Director and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the IDB Clinic (Barquisimeto, Venezuela). He was also head of the Infectious Disease Pathology Laboratory and is currently the coordinator of the Zoonosis and Emerging Pathogens Regional Collaborative Network (Venezuelan Research Incubator), as well as a member of the Venezuelan Academy of Medicine in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a US-, EU-, and Venezuela-licensed physician and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow). His main research interests are focused on the eco-epidemiological and pathological aspects of arthropod-borne viruses/protozoa and trypanosomatid parasitic infections.