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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

 

Dr Diamantis Plachouras is an infectious diseases physician with experience in clinical infectious diseases, infection control and antimicrobial stewardship. Since 2012, he has been a member of the surveillance and response support unit of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in the Disease Programme for antimicrobial resistance and healthcare associated infections (ARHAI). His key activities have included surveillance of and response to healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in Europe, the development of guidelines on the prudent use of antimicrobials in human medicine and the development of indicators of antimicrobial stewardship. He received his medical diploma in 1994 and a doctorate degree in Medicine at the University of Athens, Greece. He specialised in internal medicine in the UK and Greece and subsequently in infectious diseases and worked from 2006 until 2012 as a lecturer and assistant professor at the “Attikon” hospital of the University of Athens in Greece.

Bichat – Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France

Jean-Christophe LUCET is a Professor in Microbiology and Infection Control. He is head of the Infection Control Unit of the Bichat – Claude Bernard University Hospital in Paris, France. His research interests are the epidemiology and control of multiply-resistant bacteria in the hospital setting (ESBL, MRSA and highly-resistant bacteria) using intervention tools, behavioral approach and statistical modeling.

Other research topics include new techniques for assessing infectious risk and interaction between patients and healthcare workers; behavioral approach of Infection control; methodological aspects of surveillance and reporting of surgical site infection; and prevention of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in the ICU.

Besides hospital and research activities, he participates to French and European expert groups, including in France : quality indicators to be publicly reported in French healthcare institutions, updating definition of HAI and recommendations for prevention of various conditions, including multiply- and highly-resistant bacteria, and recently reorganisation of national networks for surveillance and prevention.

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Dr. Herwaldt is a Professor in Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. She has a joint appointment in the Epidemiology Department of the College of Public Health. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. Dr. Herwaldt does infectious diseases consults and she conducts research related to healthcare-associated infections and prevention of pathogen transmission to patients and healthcare workers. She has grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

 

Dr. Herwaldt previously, served as the Hospital Epidemiologist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for 20 years, after having served as the Associate Hospital Epidemiologist for five years.

 

Dr. Herwaldt is on the Planning Committee for the International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control and she previously served on the Planning Committee for the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. She has served in various capacities for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): member and of chair of the SHEA Nomination Committee, member of SHEA the Education Committee, and the External Affairs Committee, Treasurer, and Academic Counselor. She edited the first edition of the Practical Handbook for Healthcare Epidemiologists.

 

Dr. Herwaldt received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Grinnell College and her doctor or medicine degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and an infectious disease fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. Between her residency and fellowship, she served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for two years. She received the SHEA Young Investigator Award and the SHEA Mentor-Scholar Award.

Department of Infection Control and Hospital Hygiene, Stockholm and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Susanne Wiklund became a Registered Nurse in 1980. She’s a Nurse specialist in intensive care, anesthetics and primary health care. Susanne is working as an Infection Control Nurse at the Department of Infection Control and Hospital Hygiene in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a Diploma in Infection Control and a Master of Public Health. She is also a researcher at the Division of Infectious Diseases at Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden. Her Doctoral dissertation took place in 2015 with the thesis “Carriage of ESBL (Extended Spectrum Beta-lactamases) -producing bacteria – knowledge, emotional impact and risk assessment”. Her research area concerns the human perspective and consequences of a carriership of ESBL. The studies highlight in what ways antibiotic-resistant bacteria affects different groups in the population – citizens, patients and healthcare staff.

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

 

In 2003, Professor Andreas Voss became the first professor of infection prevention in the Netherlands. His research focuses on improving infection prevention and hygiene in hospitals. He specializes in the epidemiology and prevention of multi-resistant hospital bacteria, such as MRSA, VRE, ESBL en CPE. He is particularly interested in hand hygiene, especially in replacing hand washing and introducing bedside disinfection of the hands.

Voss wishes to show to the new generation of doctors and nurses that infection prevention has a major impact on the quality of health care. Patient care and education, therefore, are his priorities. He closely collaborates with other departments within the Radboud university medical center and with other national and international working groups/societies. His is presently chair on WIP’s expert group on infection control in nursing homes.

University Hospital Basel Switzerland

 

Sarah Tschudin-Sutter (MD, MSc) is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and has a main research interest in the transmission of hospital-acquired infections. She conducted her training in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology of the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland and completed her research fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where she also obtained her Master’s of Science degree in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology as well as a certificate in Healthcare Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was appointed assistant professor at the University of Basel in 2014 and received a Tenure Track Professorship for Epidemiology in Infectious Diseases at the University of Basel in 2018.

University of Iowa

 

Dr. Perencevich is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine with appointments in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, as well as a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology in the University of Iowa, College of Public Health. Perencevich is currently Director of CADRE (Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation) at the Iowa City VA Health Care System, which is funded by the VA HSR&D service.