Theoklis Zaoutis, MD, PHD is currently Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in the Second Department of Pediatrics based in the P and A Kyriakou Children’s Hospital. He is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (PENN)/Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He was recently appointed director of Greek National Organization for Publuc Health (Greek CDC) He is an internationally recognized infectious disease expert, epidemiologist, and pediatrician, with over 330 articles in scientific journals and has been awarded multiple distinctions, including the Healthcare Epidemiology Pediatric Investigator Award in 2009 and the Distinguished Service Award by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society in 2015.     He has served on the ESPID research committee, the ESPID guideline committee for Bone and Joint Infections and has directed the ESPID Research Master Class. He has participated in several advisory committees in the USA and Europe including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Health (NIH), the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee of Infectious Diseases (Red Book). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society for over 10 years.