Klaus P. Hunfeld, MD, MPH, has served since 2009 as a Consultant for Laboratory Medicine and Head of the Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, and Infection Control at the Northwest Medical Center, an academic teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In 2004 he obtained an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA with a special focus on vector-borne and infectious diseases. Moreover, he is currently lecturing as an Adjunct Professor for medical microbiology, virology, and epidemiology of infection at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and served as Professor for microbiology, virology, and hygiene at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany, from 2011 to 2013. He is also a member of ESGBOR (European Study Group of Lyme borreliosis) and a section editor for the journal Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. He is licensed as a physician and is board certified in medical microbiology, infection control, and laboratory medicine. His clinical and research focus has mainly been on the microbiology of infectious diseases caused by fastidious and vector-borne microorganisms, the rapid molecular diagnosis of pathogens in immune-compromised and septic patients, and the epidemiology and resistance mechanisms of multi drug resistant (MDR) microbes.