Professor of Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Emmanuel Roilides, MD, PhD, FIDSA, FAAM, FESCMID, FECMM, FISAC is Professor of Paediatrics-Infectious Diseases in Aristotle University School of Medicine at Hippokration General Hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Athens, Greece, and worked for seven years at NIH Maryland, USA. Since 1993, Professor Roilides has been a faculty member in the Aristotle University. He currently chairs the Child Health sector of the school and is the head of the 3rd Department of Pediatrics as well as of the research laboratory and the Division of Infectious Diseases. He is Board member of Special Unit for Biomedical Research and Education of the School of Medicine responsible for Basic and Translational Research. His research focuses on fungal infections and multiresistant Gram-negative bacteria. He is on the Editorial Board of several international biomedical journals and author of >660 peer reviewed articles and book chapters (>455 PUBMED) with >14000 citations and an h-index 71. He has been co-ordinator or partner in several multicentre or multinational studies.