Alberto E. Paniz Mondolfi, M.D., MSc., PhD, FFTM RCPS (Glasg) is Assistant Director of Microbiology at the Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Paniz Mondolfi was Academic Director and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the IDB Clinic (Barquisimeto, Venezuela). He was also head of the Infectious Disease Pathology Laboratory and is currently coordinator of the Zoonosis and Emerging Pathogens Regional Collaborative Network (Venezuelan Research Incubator); and a member of the Venezuelan Academy of Medicine in Caracas, Venezuela. Dr. Paniz Mondolfi is a US, EU and Venezuela licensed physician and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow).

        He was the head of the Infectious disease pathology section of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and the national coordinator for epidemiology and control of leprosy and leishmaniasis at the Institute of Biomedicine in Caracas, Venezuela. He was also an Associate Researcher to the Infectious Diseases Developmental Laboratory (Department of Medicine) at St Luke’s‑Roosevelt Hospital Center (University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) in New York.

        Paniz Mondolfi received his medical degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela. He completed a research fellowship at the Institute of Biomedicine (PAHO center for training and research in Leprosy and other endemic diseases) in Caracas, and residency training in Internal Medicine (IVSS, Caracas Venezuela) and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt and Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He also completed a fellowship in Dermatopathology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, as well as a master’s of science in Parasitology from the University of Valencia (Spain), and advanced fellowship courses in Infectious Diseases at the WHO/TDR Immunology Research and Training Centre in Lausanne (Switzerland) and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington D.C (Donald West King Fellowship).

        Dr. Paniz Mondolfi pursued further training in infectious diseases and cancer diagnostics and completed his Molecular Genetic Pathology fellowship training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He was also a Winchester fellow in Medical Microbiology at Yale University School of Medicine. He has published extensively in international renowned journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Science and Nature. His research portfolio includes over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts in all disciplines of infectious diseases with an h-index of 25.

       He is a specialist in medical microbiology, tropical medicine and infectious diseases and is a skilled pathologist with strong research and professional interests in molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases. His main research interests are focused in the eco-epidemiological and pathological aspects of arthropod-borne viruses / protozoa and trypanosomatid parasitic infections. His expertise and knowledge on antimicrobial and antiprotozoal chemotherapy has led him to focus his research on the identification and evaluation of novel drugs and formulations for the treatment of leishmaniasis and American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease). He has served as an advisor for the US Department of Defense, co-authoring the largest investigational trial evaluating the efficacy of trypanocidal drug combinations for the treatment of T. cruzi infection in dogs.

      Current research interests include the development of novel diagnostic methods as well as the development of predictive models for disease ecology, spatial epidemiology, tracking of viral / parasite emergence and molecular epidemiology of endemic and emerging infectious diseases. He is currently devoting much of his efforts to develop surveillance and predicative models for studying the emergence of vectorial diseases such as Malaria, Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease, Yellow Fever and other arboviruses such as Zika, Mayaro, Dengue and Chikungunya.