Cornelius J. (Neil) Clancy, M. D. is Chief of Infectious Diseases at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, director of the Mycology Research Unit and XDR Pathogen Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, and tenured associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. His clinical, translational and basic science research laboratory is funded by the National Institutes of Health and Department of Veterans Affairs to pursue inter-related areas of investigation in medical mycology, extensively-drug resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections, and antimicrobial resistance and pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics. Dr. Clancy has published over 170 papers in the peer-reviewed biomedical literature. He has delivered keynote addresses related to his research and contemporary issues in infectious diseases and microbiology at numerous international medical and scientific conferences. Dr. Clancy serves on the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance. He has received awards for excellence as a clinical educator by the Universities of Pittsburgh and Florida.