Dr. Rafael Caton
Dr. Rafael Caton
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. 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).
Dr Rafael Cantón is the Head of the Clinical Microbiology Department at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid (Spain) and Associate Professor of Clinical Microbiology at Complutense University in Madrid. His research activity is developed within the Spanish Network CIBER in Infectious Diseases (CIBERINFEC, https://www.ciberinfec.es/grupos/grupos-de-investigacion) and Institute Ramón y Cajal for Health (IRYCIS) in which he is the principal investigator of the group “Biology and evolution of microorganisms” (https://www.irycis.org/en/research/research-groups/6/biology-and-evolution-of-microorganisms). This activity is focused on antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, antimicrobial susceptibility testing with new disruptive technologies, chronic 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 2012-2016). He has been President of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC) (2015-2017). Since 2018 he is in the Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR). He has also participated in several EU funded research projects on antimicrobial resistance.
Expertise: Clinical Microbiology, Infectious diseases
