Patricia Munoz

Patricia Muñoz García, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine in Clinical Microbiology at the Complutense University of Madrid and Head of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón NIF: 00801361-H Patricia Muñoz is currently Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Complutense University of Madrid and Head in the Service of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology of the General University Hospital Gregorio Marañón. Dr Muñoz’s main research interests include fungal infections, infective endocarditis, infections in solid organ transplant recipients, immunocompromised hosts, heart surgery patients and nosocomially- acquired infectious diseases. She has published more than 600 papers, books, and book chapters. Dr Muñoz has contributed to current prophylactic strategies against Pneumocystis carinii and toxoplasmosis in heart transplant recipients, to the understanding of lung nodules, to the identification of risk factors for invasive aspergillosis and targeted prophylaxis, and to the awareness of human herpesvirus infection in transplant recipients. At present she is working in developing an antifungal stewardship program and in the clinical application of fungal biomarkers. Dr Muñoz is a member of the Spanish Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the American Society for Microbiology, and the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). She is an active member of the European Study Group for Nosocomial Infections the ESCMID Study Group of infection in compromised host (ESGICH) and the Spanish Network of Infection in Transplantation, and is the Secretary of the Group for the Management of Infective Endocarditis of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital (GAMES). She has been President of the Spanish Society for Cardiovascular Infections (SEICAV).