Current Fungal Infection Reports - Meet the Editors
Matthew McCarthy
Editor-in-Chief
Matt McCarthy is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a staff physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where his research focuses on novel treatment strategies for patients hospitalized with infectious diseases. He has a degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale and a medical degree from Harvard. Dr. McCarthy is the author of three bestselling books including, most recently, the international bestseller Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic.
Alexandro Bonifaz
Section Editor: Fungal Infections of Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
Prof. Alexandro Bonifaz is Head of the Department of Mycology, Dermatology Service, Hospital General de Mexico “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga.” Undergraduate and postgraduate professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Researcher of the Health Systems, Health Secretary, Mexican Government, and Senior Researcher of the National System of Researchers (CONACYT). He is a member of multiple national and international associations in dermatology, medical mycology, and tropical medicine (especially in mycetoma, chromoblastomycosis, sporotrichosis, mucormycosis, superficial cutaneous mycoses, mycobacterial infections, leprosy, and cutaneous parasitoses).
Editor of "Dermatología Revista Mexicana" organ of the two Mexican dermatological groups. Adjunct editor of some international mycology journals.
Deborah Palacios Reyes
Section Editor Pediatric Fungal Infections
Deborah Palacios Reyes, M.D, born in Mexico City, she works as an attending in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department at Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (pediatric reference center), and is currently head of the Mycology and Parasitology Division in the same hospital. She completed her training in Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases fellowship in the same center in 2018. Her clinical and research work focuses on fungal and parasitic infections as well as opportunistic and neglected infections in the pediatric population.
Markus Plate
Section Editor: COVID-19 and Fungal Infections
Dr. Plate received his MD from University of Mainz in Germany and post-doctoral training at Peking University in China and USC in Los Angeles , CA. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at Lincoln Medical Health Center in 2016 followed by an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 2016-2018 and then joined the Infectious Diseases Faculty , transplantation-oncology program at WCM in 2018 where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Paschalis Vergidis
Section Editor: Cancer Patients and Fungal Infection
Dr Paschalis Vergidis is an Associate Professor of Medicine and serves as the Chair of the Hematology-Oncology Infectious Disease Focus Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He is a fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology. Dr Vergidis has published and presented widely in the areas of Medical Mycology and Transplant Infectious Diseases. His research is focused on novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for the management of invasive fungal infections.
Dallas Smith
Section Editor: Fungal Infection Disparities
Dr. Dallas Smith is an epidemiologist with the Mycotic Diseases Branch in the National Center for Zoonotic and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He obtained his PharmD from the University of Findlay in 2017 and his MAS from Johns Hopkins University in 2023. Prior to coming to CDC, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cambodia (2017-2019) and Malawi (2019-2020). He was a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the class of 2021. Dr. Smith serves as the subject matter expert for fungal neglected tropical diseases, leads the branch’s antifungal stewardship activities, and is passionate about integrating health equity into fungal disease public health interventions.