Mahmoud Afif Ghannoum MSc, PhD, EMBA

Mahmoud Ghannoum, PhD, Director of the Center for Medical Mycology, Case Western Reserve University (Case) and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and a tenured Professor in the Department of Dermatology, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He received his PhD in Microbial Physiology from Loughborough University of Technology in England. He received his MBA from the Weatherhead School of Business, Case. Dr. Ghannoum received the Freedom to Discover Award from Bristol-Myers Squibb for his expertise in the field of fungal biofilms, and the Billy Cooper Award from the Mycological Societies of the Americas for his contribution to the field of clinical mycology.
He served as the Chair of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute’s (CLSI) Subcommittee on Antifungal Susceptibility Testing. More recently Dr. Ghannoum research has focussed on the mycobiome in health and disease. Dr Ghannoum published over 300 articles in the field of biofilms, microbial pathogenesis and preclinical in vitro and in vivo evaluations of antimicrobials, and 5 books. He served as a member of the editorial board of a number of biomedical journals, and is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology, and a Member of the American Academy of Dermatology