Matias Chiarastelli Salomão

Matias C. Salomão, MD, PhD, is an infectious-diseases physician who earned his medical degree from the University of São Paulo School of Medicine (FMUSP) in 2011. He completed a residency in Infectious Diseases at the Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo (HCFMUSP) in 2016 and obtained a PhD in Infectious Diseases from FMUSP in 2020, investigating carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales colonization in emergency departments and intensive-care units. He finished a postdoctoral fellowship at FMUSP in 2024, carried out in partnership with the CDC in Atlanta, where he spent time as a visiting researcher validating and assessing the impact of rapid diagnostic tests for surveillance of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales.Dr Salomão currently serves as an infectious-diseases specialist on the Hospital Infection Control Subcommittee of the Central Institute, HCFMUSP, and as a microbiology and infectious-diseases consultant at Fleury Medicina e Saúde. He is a Temporary Lecturer in the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at FMUSP, a researcher at Medical Investigation Laboratory 49 (LIM-49) Protozoology, Bacteriology and Antimicrobial Resistance, and, since 2025, a member of the BrCAST Steering Committee (Brazilian Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing). His research interests include antimicrobial resistance, clinical microbiology, infection prevention and control, and hospital epidemiology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)