Patrizia Zucchi (45yrs) is a hospital physician that has specialised in Infectious diseases (ID). She previously worked for five years at GlaxoSmithKline, as Head of the local Italian Medical team. Her passion and drive for “hands-on” clinical research coupled with her skills and new experiences in industry meant she could once again apply her significant expertise to the hospital setting, resulting in a career move to the Sacco Hospital in Milan. Here she dedicated herself to research in HIV/AIDS. She is currently working as an ID specialist in a hospital in the central Alps that includes a TB dedicated inpatient service and clinic. Her main interests are the infection control processes, antibiotic appropriateness, Tb care/research and Covid -19 management.

Elisabetta Menatti is a biologist specialized in health statistics. Previously she worked for five years at the Institute of Virology of the University of Milan as a researcher. Since 2006 she work as study coordinator in the Oncology Unit of the Sondrio Hospital. She attended more than one hundred Phase I-IV clinical trials. She is member of the Brianza ethics committee since 2018.

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