Dr. Sung-Yeon Cho is an Associate Professor of the Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul, Korea. She holds a Ph.D. from the Catholic University. Dr. Cho's medical specialty and research interests focus on the diagnosis and management of infectious complications in patients with hematological malignancy, including invasive fungal infections and post-transplantation infectious complications such as cytomegalovirus and BK-PyV. She is also engaged in the prevention of infectious diseases, including antibacterial/antiviral/antifungal prophylaxis, as well as post-transplantation vaccination strategies. Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is actively involved in clinical trials focused on the management and prevention of invasive fungal and viral infections. She currently serves as the Director of Transplantation & Consultation Center at the Catholic Hematology Hospital in Seoul, Korea.
Dr. Takahiro Matsuo graduated from Nagasaki University School of Medicine (Japan). After completing initial residency training at St. Luke's International Hospital, he worked as a fellow, followed by an attending physician (educational chief) in the infectious diseases (IDs) department. Since July 2021, he has been working as a clinical ID fellow at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is a board-certified (Japan) internal medicine and ID specialist. His main research interests are clinical mycology, medical education, and physician burnout. He is the recipient of the Teaching Award at St. Luke's (2013–2020) and Trainee Award at IDWeek (2021–2023) and Symposium on Infectious Diseases in the Immunocompromised Host (2023).
Dr. Jeffrey Tarrand is the Chief of the Section of Clinical Microbiology and Virology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. His main research concerns internal medicine, surgery, cancer, immunology, and pneumonia. His internal medicine research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Fluconazole, Caspofungin, and Candida glabrata. The study of surgery is intertwined with the study of Bacteremia in a number of ways.
