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 14 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 José G. MontoyaJosé G. MontoyaDr José G. Montoya is originally from Cali, Colombia and completed his medical degree with honors at the Universidad del Valle, Colombia. He trained in internal medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Following his residency, he completed his fellowship in infectious diseases at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, under the mentorship of Dr Jack S. Remington. He is currently Professor in the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His research interests include chronic fatigue syndrome, toxoplasmosis, infection in the setting of solid organ transplantation, and infection as a trigger of chronic diseases. Dr Montoya is the Director of the National Reference Laboratory for the Diagnosis and Management of Toxoplasmosis in the United States at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He is also the founder of the Immunocompromised Host Service (Infectious Diseases) at Stanford University Medical Center. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He has received more than 12 school-wide teaching awards at Stanford. In 2011, Dr Montoya was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) in recognition of his commitment to the internal medicine community and Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA) for having achieved professional excellence in the field of infectious diseases. Trish M. PerlTrish M. PerlDr Trish M. Perl is Chief of Infectious Diseases and the Jay P Sanford Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA. Prior to this appointment she was Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. Dr Perl received her Bachelor of Arts and Medical Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, and a Master of Science degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She completed an internship, residency, and fellowship in internal medicine at McGill (Royal Victoria Hospital) and a fellowship in infectious diseases and clinical epidemiology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa, USA. She was the hospital epidemiologist of the Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1996 and 2010. She has extensive practical and research experience in the field of healthcare associated infections and resistant organisms and is world renowned for her innovation and research in the field and the application of research knowledge in the healthcare setting. Dr Perl was the 2006 President of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America (SHEA). In the past, she has served on advisory panels for the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) and has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (ARHQ). An active researcher, Dr Perl has been a principal and co-principal investigator for studies on healthcare associated infections, bioterrorism syndromic surveillance, respiratory infections and antimicrobial resistance for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has authored or co-authored over 220 peer-reviewed articles. In addition, she has written multiple chapters and contributed to guidelines and policies relevant to healthcare associated infections at the institutional, state and federal level. Dr Perl has been funded by the Veteran's Affairs Administration and Industry as well as the CDC over the years. Her scientific interests encompass emerging diseases and planning in healthcare facilities for their management, syndromic surveillance, respiratory infections, healthcare associated infections including surgical site infections, Clostridium difficile, emerging infection prevention and interventions to prevent, the transmission of epidemiologically significant organisms, and patient and healthcare worker safety. She is committed to training fellows and others with interests in healthcare epidemiology and has begun working in the developing world to help promote the science and discovery in infection prevention.