Dr Angela Gentile is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist, currently working as the Head of the Department of Epidemiology at Ricardo Gutiérrez Children's Hospital, Buenos Aires. She is a specialist in public health and is currently Secretary of Institutional Affairs at the University of Buenos Aires, a member of the National Commission for Vaccine Safety of Argentina and Chair of the Regional Committee of Pan-American Health Organization. Dr Gentile is also President of the Hospital Infections Committee and is an active member of several scientific societies including the Vaccine Committee of the Latin American Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr Gentile exercises teaching functions as Chair of Epidemiology and Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Austral University. She also holds positions at the University of Buenos Aires as Professor of the Higher Course of Infectious Diseases in the Faculty of Medicine and Associate Professor of Pediatrics.