Patrizia Robino, DVM, PhD, is Associate Professor of Veterinary Infectious Diseases at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Torino, Italy. She is a De Facto Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology (ECVM) and Supervisor of the ECVM Standard Residency Training Programme. Her research focuses on veterinary bacteriology, molecular diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance surveillance, and infectious diseases of companion and unconventional animals. She is Head of the Teaching Diagnostic Laboratories at the University of Torino and actively collaborates in national and international research projects.