Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases was launched in 1988. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of infectious diseases is divided into 11 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Matthew S. DrydenMatthew S. DrydenMatthew S. Dryden is a Clinical Director of Infection at the Hampshire Hospitals Trust in Winchester, UK, and the Rare and Imported Pathogens Department, PHE and an honorary senior lecturer at Southampton University Medical School, UK. He is a visiting Professor at St George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, and consultant to the Falkland Islands and St Helena Governments Health Services. He is General Secretary of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, a member of the executive committee of the International Society of Chemotherapy and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal College of Pathologists. Dr Dryden has an interest in travel medicine and is a partner in Winchester Travel Health. His department has a link with Yei Hospital in Southern Sudan. His research interests have been in staphylococcal infection, skin and soft tissue infection, the development of new antibiotics, antibiotic stewardship, the management of MRSA infections, and Lyme disease in the UK. Michael S. NiedermanMichael S. NiedermanMichael S. Niederman is Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, New York, USA. He obtained his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, USA, and then completed his training in internal medicine at Northwestern University School of Medicine, USA, before undertaking a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine, USA. His interests lie in respiratory tract infections, and include mechanisms of airway colonization, the management of community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia, the role of guidelines for pneumonia, and the impact of antibiotic resistance on the management and outcomes of respiratory tract infections. He has published over 350 peer reviewed or review articles, and has lectured widely, both nationally and internationally. Dr Niederman served as co-Chairman of the committees that created the American Thoracic Society 1993 and 2001 guidelines for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and the 1996 and 2005 committees that wrote guidelines for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia. He was a member of the ATS/IDSA committee that published guidelines for community-acquried pneumonia in 2007. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, and has served on the editorial boards of The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care, Intensive Care Medicine and Chest.