Silvia Corcione

Silvia Corcione, MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases Specialist currently works as Researcher and Infectious Diseases Attending at the Division of Infectious Diseases at City of Health and Sciences, University of Turin, in Turin, Italy. Since the first year of fellowship, she developed a strong interest in bacterial and fungal infections with a specific focus on nosocomial infections in immunocompromised host, especially in the setting of critical care, solid organ transplant and bone marrow transplant. Her research is focus on clinical epidemiology, nosocomial infections and pharmacokinetics of antibiotic and antifungal in special setting such as patients on ECMO, CVVH and burn patients. In November 2016 she started her PhD project based on changes of gut microbiome composition in allogenic transplant recipients colonized by multidrug resistant organisms. In this regard, in 2019 she continued her research collaboration, started in 2015, with the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tuft Medical center as a visiting PhD student. Moreover, she is currently involved in different antimicrobial stewardship programs at City of Health and Sciences in Turin, Italy facing the outbreak of multidrug resistant infections in the hospital, and she focused her work on the early identification of carriers and infection control protocol. Together with the antimicrobial stewardship committee she developed the local guidelines for empiric antibiotic therapy in internal medicine wards and ob-gyn departments. She is constantly involved in educational programs in surgical, ICU and medical wards focusing on the appropriate use of antibiotics and management of nosocomial infections. Since December 2019, thanks to her clinical and research activities, she was appointed at the rank of Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.