Stefano Bassetti is the head of the Division of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Basel and professor of internal medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland. After graduating in medicine from the University of Zurich he trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases in different hospitals in Switzerland (in Ticino, Lucerne, Basel). He worked two years as infectious diseases research fellow at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA on vascular catheter related infections and airborne transmission of Staphylococcus aureus, then as senior physician in internal medicine and in infectious diseases at the University Hospital Basel. From 2006 to 2014 he was the head of the Department of Medicine at the Cantonal Hospital of Olten. He is actively involved in medical education and clinical training as chair of the board for postgraduate education of the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine, member of the board of the Swiss Institute for Postgraduate and Continuing Education in Medicine (SIWF) and Swiss representative in the European Federation of Internal Medicine. His main research focus lies on clinical projects aiming at improving diagnostics and treatment, particularly in hospitalized, multimorbid patients, and in the field of infectious diseases.