Carolina Garcia-Vidal is Senior Specialist in Infectious Diseases Department in Hospital Clínic, Barcelona. She has a contagious enthusiasm as well as a powerful dedication to infectious diseases and mycology. She won among others the young investigator award for research by the Spanish Society of Medicine (2009), the young investigator award for research by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (2014), the ECCMID Fellowship (2019) and the EIT Health award 2020 for innovation by the European Union (2020). She has been member of the Scientific affairs subcommittee at European Society of Clinical Microbiology (2016-2020) and the ECCMID programme committee (2016-2019).
Her research focuses on immunocompromised host infections, mycology, and respiratory tract infection. Her work is based on clinical research and covers a large range of topics, including among others severe fungal infections, infections in onco-hematologic patients and transplantation (i.e multidrug-resistant infections), COVID19, pneumonia, and infections in patients receiving biological therapies. She has produced much original data, and published more than 250 indexed publications in several prominent journals with more than 11 000 citations. Her present Hirsch Index is 53. Global i10 index 141. She has spoken in more than 450 national and international meetings.
In recent months she has started several projects in artificial intelligence as it applies to medicine, becoming a leading source of reference in this field.