Jordi Rello
University Hospital Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain

Jordi Rello is Chief of the Critical Care Department at Joan XXIII University Hospital, and is Associate Professor of Critical Care at Rovira & Virgili University Medical School in Tarragona, Spain. He is also the past Chair of the Infection Section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Rello has been actively involved in clinical research for the past 20 years, focusing on the prevention and control of hospital-acquired infections, the epidemiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) or severe community-acquired pneumonia, and the treatment of infections in critically ill patients. He lectures regularly at national and international meetings, and he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles or reviews in such scientific journals as the Annals of Internal Medicine, Lancet, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and Chest, among others. He serves on the Editorial Boards of numerous journals, including Intensive Care Medicine, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, Medicina Intensiva, and Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica. Dr. Rello has coauthored several books and is co-Editor of the Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Textbook, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the book series, Perspectives on Critical Care Infectious Diseases. His numerous honours and awards include the Young Investigator Award of the American College of Chest Physicians in 1994 and 1995. In 2003, he was co-recipient of the Emanuel Wolinsky Award, given by IDSA/CID as an author of the best article published that year in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Dr. Rello earned his doctor of science degree in infectious diseases with honours at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He trained as a critical care specialist at the Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain.