Committees

Organizers
Didier Pittet, Geneva
Andreas Voss, Nijmegen
Stephan Harbarth, Geneva

Scientific Committee
Members of the scientific committee are actively involved in suggesting sessions and, in part, helping to plan a coherent and innovative programme. All members are also taking part in the abstract review process.

Lindsay Grayson – Australia
David Paterson – Australia
Herman Goossens – Belgium
Jean-Louis Vincent – Belgium
Rosanna Richtmann – Brazil
Vincent Djientcheu – Cameroon
Lindsay Nicolle – Canada
Dominique Monnet – ECDC
Christian Brun-Buisson – France
Jean Carlet – France
Vincent Jarlier – France
Jean-Christophe Lucet – France
Petra Gastmeier – Germany
Achilleas Gikas – Greece
Patricia Ching – Hong Kong, SAR, China
Wing-Hong Seto – Hong Kong, SAR, China
Geeta Mehta – India
Yehuda Carmeli – Israel
Maria Luisa Moro – Italy
Evelina Tacconelli – Italy
Souha Kanj – Lebanon
Nordiah Jalil – Malaysia
Michael Borg – Malta
Marc Bonten – The Netherlands
Alexander Friedrich -The Netherlands
Jan Kluytmans – The Netherlands
Nizam Damani – Northern Ireland, UK
Hanan Balkhy – Saudi Arabia
Ziad Memish – Saudi Arabia
Babacar Ndoye – Senegal
Paul Anantharajah Tambyah – Singapore
Moi Lin Ling – Singapore
Shaheen Mehtar – South Africa
Laurent Brochard – Switzerland
Philippe Eggimann – Switzerland
Hugo Sax – Switzerland
Jérome Pugin – Switzerland
Andreas Widmer – Switzerland
Hakan Leblebicioglu – Turkey
John McConnell – The Lancet
Alison Holmes – UK
Judith Richards – UK
Homero Bagnulo – Uruguay
John Boyce – USA
E. Patchen Dellinger – USA
Eli Perencevich – USA
Loreen Herwaldt – USA
Benedetta Allegranzi – WHO

Local Organizing Committee
The local organizing committee is a multidisciplinary team from Geneva providing help across all aspects.

Fabricio da Liberdade Jantarada (Coordinator)
Marie-Noelle Chraïti
Claude Ginet
Laurent Kaiser
Claire Kilpatrick
Leonardo Pagani
Klara Posfay-Barbe
Andrew Stewardson
Rosemary Sudan
Ilker Uçkay
Christian Van Delden
Walter Zingg

ICPIC Experts
ICPIC experts represent a group of colleagues that ICPIC acknowledges as experts in the field. They are “ambassadors” who support and promote the meeting.

Victor Rosenthal – Argentina

John Ferguson – Australia

Tom Gottlieb – Australia

Mary-Louise McLaws – Australia

Thomas Riley – Australia

Franz Allerberger – Austria

Bart Gordts – Belgium

Anne Simon – Belgium

Vandack Nobre – Brazil

Flavia Rossi – Brazil

Rossitza Vatcheva-Dobrevska – Bulgaria

John Conly – Canada

Yves Longtin – Canada

Ethan Rubinstein – Canada

Bijie Hu – China

Hui Wang – China

Niels Frimodt-Moller – Denmark

Robert Skov – Denmark

Antoine Andremont – France

Jean Chastre – France

Philippe Vanhems – France

Xavier Bertrand – France

Frank Brunkhorst – Germany

Markus Dettenkofer – Germany

Sebastian Lemmen – Germany

Helen Giamarellou – Greece

Szilágyi Emese – Hungary

Anita Arora – India

Abdul Ghafur – India

Anand Manoharan – India

Namita Jaggi – India

Mehrdad Askarian – Iran

Hilary Humphreys – Ireland

Massimo Antonelli – Italy

Guido Bertolini – Italy

Silvio Brusaferro – Italy

Angelo Pan – Italy

Nicola Petrosillo – Italy

Mansour Adeoty – Ivory Coast

Toshinobu Horii – Japan

Jae Hoon Song – Korea

Lul Raka – Kosovo

Mohammad K. Ibrahim – Lebanon

Victor Lim – Malaysia

Samuel Ponce-Leon – Mexico

Hajo Grundmann – The Netherlands

Christina Vandenbroucke- Grauls – The Netherlands

Margreet Vos – The Netherlands

Timothy Blackmore – New Zealand

Egil Lingaas – Norway

Piotr Heczko – Poland

Waleria

Hryniewicz – Poland

Sergej Eremin – Russia

Adriano Duse – South Africa

Keith Klugman – South Africa

Dale Fisher – Singapore

Maja Rupnic – Slovenia

Bojana Beovic – Slovenia

Jordi Rello – Spain

Jesus Rodríguez-Bãno – Spain

Antoni Torres – Spain

Toni Trilla – Spain

Hakan Hanberger – Sweden

Gerhard Eich – Switzerland

Christian Ruef – Switzerland

Giorgio Zanetti – Switzerland

Lee Chun Ming – Taiwan, China

Husueh Po-Ren – Taiwan, China

Anucha Apisarnthanarak – Thailand

Ben Cooper – Thailand

Serhat Unal – Turkey

Barry Cookson – UK

Mervyn Singer – UK

Daniel Diekema – USA

Mike Edmond – USA

Don Goldman – USA

William Jarvis – USA

Elaine Larson – USA

Pam Lipsett – USA

Leonard Mermel – USA

Michele Pearson (CDC) – USA

Trish Perl – USA

Gina Pugliese – USA

Craig Rubens – USA

Marc Rupp – USA

Sanjay Saint – USA

Robert Sherertz – USA

Michael Tapper – USA

Robert A. Weinstein – USA

Joyce Hightower – WHO

Carmem Pessoa-Silva – WHO

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