Giovanni di Perri
University Of Turin, Italy

Giovanni Di Perri is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Turin, Italy, and is Director of both the Clinical Department of Infectious Diseases at the University Hospital ‘Amedeo di Savoia’ in Turin and the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Turin. Professor Di Perri is also Director of the Postgraduate School of Infectious Diseases at the university.

Professor Di Perri graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Siena, Italy. He then completed research fellowships at the Postgraduate School of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pavia, Italy, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Since 1992, Professor Di Perri has carried out field research activities on malaria in Burundi and Malaysia. In 1995, Professor Di Perri was appointed by the World Health Organization as an external advisor on both HIV-associated tuberculosis and malaria.

Professor Di Perri is currently a reviewer for the journals Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, AIDS and European Respiratory Journal. He has authored and co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles on subjects including tuberculosis, HIV infection, malaria, viral hepatitis and bacterial infections.