Leadership Team

Ana Cristina Gales is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP). She also serves as the Director of the Laboratory Alerta in São Paulo, Brazil.

Dr. Gales earned her medical degree from the Faculdade de Medicina (FMABC) in 1991 and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at EPM-UNIFESP from 1992 to 1995. She obtained a PhD in health sciences from EPM-UNIFESP in 2001, following a research fellowship in medical microbiology at the University of Iowa’s Department of Pathology in Iowa City, USA (1998-2000).

Her research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant bacteria and the in vitro activity of new antimicrobials. Dr. Gales is a full member of the Technical Chamber on Microbial Resistance in Health Services (CATREM), advising the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) on standards and measures for monitoring, controlling, and preventing antimicrobial resistance in Brazilian health services. She is also the Vice-Coordinator of the newly established Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of São Paulo (Aries).

She has collaborated on several global programs monitoring antimicrobial resistance rates and phenotypes among clinically relevant pathogens. She served as Chair of the Brazilian Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility (BrCAST) from 2017 to 2018. Additionally, she is an editor for The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases and the Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance and has been a distinguished member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP) since July 2021.