Dr. Christine Ginocchio is VP, Global Medical Affairs, bioMérieux/BioFire, retired Professor of Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine, at Northwell, NY. Previously, she was Senior Medical Director, Division of Infectious Disease Diagnostics, Northwell Health, Research Professor, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, NY. She has 40 yr experience in diagnostics and Medical Education. She was principal investigator for 60 industry and pharmaceutical trials. Honors include: Irving Abrahams Award for outstanding research, Sarber Fellowship, PASCV Diagnostic Virology Award, ASM Research in Clinical Microbiology Award. She has 115 peer reviewed publications and has been a speaker at more than 250 National/International Conferences. She was an advisor for CDC, FDA, WHO, NIH, Biothreat/Influenze Preparedness Committees. She was President PASCV, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Clinical Virology, member of CAP Microbiology Committee, ASM Lab Practices Committee, and IDSA Research Committee. She is currently a voting member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) and IDSA Diagnostics Committee.