Rafael Cantón (Prof. Dr.)
Clinical Microbiology
Rafael Cantón, Clinical Microbiology specialist, is the Head of the Clinical Microbiology Department at the University Hospital Ramón y Cajal in Madrid (Spain) and is associated Professor of Clinical Microbiology at Complutense University in Madrid. His research activity is developed within the Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI, http://reipi.org/) and Institute Ramón y Cajal for Health Research (IRYCIS, http://www.irycis.org) in which he coordinates the Microbiology, Immunology and Infection Area. This activity is focussed on antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, including extended-spectrum beta-lactamases and carbapenemases, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, respiratory tract infections (mainly in bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis), and interplay of clonal epidemiology and resistance. He is currently the clinical data coordinator of the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) (former president) and has been President of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).
He has published more than 500 articles in peer-review journals, 55 book chapters and had several communications on international meeting and congresses. His H factor is 72 (May, 2021). He is member of the editorial board of Microbial Drug Resistant, Drug Resistance Updates, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clinica and Revista Española de Quimioterapia journals. He is editor of the Clinical Microbiology Procedures of the SEIMC (https://seimc.org/).