Dr. Stefano Bartoli is a general and vascular surgeon who has been involved in quality and safety of care for over 30 years. He is a member of the ASL Roma 2 Infection Control Committee and has promoted events on infections in surgery. He has also participated in multidisciplinary and multiprofessional initiatives on the implementation of “care bundles” for the containment of infectious risk during hospitalization. Dr. Bartoli believes that dissemination of the culture of the good use of antibiotics should be a priority for surgeons in order to develop organizational models to help contain the risk of infection in patients undergoing surgery.

Dr. Francesco Cortese is a surgeon at the Emergency Surgery Unit of San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome. He has postgraduate degrees in General and Emergency Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, and Infectious Diseases. He is a lecturer at the “Surgical Sepsis” and “Antibiotic Stewardship” Master’s courses. He is also a consultant infection specialist at San Filippo Neri Hospital and is active in the field of surgical critical care and infections, and hospital-acquired infections. He has authored numerous papers on infections and sepsis in surgery, published many scientific articles, monographs, and book chapters, and presented reports at national and international conferences and courses. He is active in medical scientific societies and has organized numerous events. Dr. Cortese has been the coordinator of the national permanent event “Abdominal Infective Syndrome” since 2011.

Dr. Massimo Sartelli is senior consultant surgeon at the Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Macerata Hospital, AST Macerata (Italy), and a member of the Hospital Infection Control Committee. His scientific activity is documented by publications in international scientific journals. In recent years, he has devoted his updating efforts to the study of surgical infections and sepsis. He coordinated the WSES Guidelines for the management of intra-abdominal infections, for the management of skin and soft tissue infections, and for the management of C. difficile infection in surgical patients. He has designed and coordinated several multicenter prospective studies involving medical institutions worldwide, defining the epidemiological and management profiles of intra-abdominal infections. He is the founder and acting director of the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery.

Prof. Gabriele Sganga is associate professor of Surgery at the Catholic University and Director of the Division of Emergency Surgery and Trauma at Policlinico Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. He completed his fellowship at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, USA. Prof. Sganga is President of the Italian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (S.I.T.I. - I.S.I.C.) and Director of the Master’s course “Surgical Sepsis” at the Catholic University. Since his graduation, he has been dealing with infections and sepsis in surgery as shown by his numerous scientific papers, monographs and book chapters, reports at national and international congresses, advisory boards, activities in medical scientific societies, and numerous events also organized at the Policlinico Gemelli University Hospital.