2019 recipient of the Rhoda Benham Award in MMSA. Kontoyiannis is listed in the 1% of the most highly cited and influential researchers in the world. He is the leader of the ECMM Diamond Excellence in Mycology Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center, the only US center to receive such designation by ECMM. He is the president elect of The Mycoses Study Group Education Consortium (2024-26). References University of Texas faculty American infectious disease physicians Living people National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Greek microbiologists Harvard Medical School alumni 1963 births People from Athens Fellows of the Infectious Diseases Society of America