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Rosenthal, Victor D. , MD, MSc, CIC. |
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 Head of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases Dept. Bernal Medical Center. |
| Professor of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Course. Medical College of Buenos Aires. |
| Former Secretary of Infection Control Committee of Infectious Diseases Society of Argentina (SADI). |
| World Health Organization (WHO) Infection Control Guidelines External Reviewer. Government Advisor and Contributor with the development of Infection Control Guidelines of several countries of Latin America. |
| Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), International Journal of Infection Control (IJIC), Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, Infectio, and others; Peer Reviewer of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), Critical Care Medicine (CCM), and others. |
| He received awards at Pan American Meeting of Infection Control, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Meeting, International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC) Meeting, and others. |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina. Latin America. |
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| COUNTRY COORDINATORS |
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-Ahmed, Altaf, M.B., B.S., D.Bact., DTM&H, MD Clin. Micro. |
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| President, Infectious Diseases Society of Pakistan (IDSP). |
| Consultant Medical Microbiologist & Director Laboratory Services, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. |
| Coordinator, APUA Pakistan Chapter. |
| Head of Infection Control - Patel Hospital, Bismillah Taqee Institute of Blood Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan. |
| Founder member of PARN (Pakistan Antimicrobial resistance Network). |
| Links: |
| http://www.idspak.org |
| http://www.parn.org.pk |
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Álvarez Moreno, Carlos Arturo, MD, MSc |
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| Head of Infectious Diseases Unit , San Ignacio Hospital, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and President of Infectious Diseases Department, Organization Sanitas International, Colombia. |
| Professor of Medicine School at the National University of Colombia and Professor of Medicine School at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. |
| President of the Infectious Diseases Society of Colombia. |
| Bogotá, Colombia. Latin America. |
| Links: |
| http://www.acin.org |
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Cuéllar, Luis E. MD. |
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| Head of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas (INEN). |
| Professor of Infectious Diseases at Universidad Nacional |
| Former President of Peruvian Society of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (SPEIT). |
| Lima, Peru. Latin America. |
| Links: |
| http://www.speit.org |
| mailto:speit@speit.org |
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Hu, Bijie. MD. |
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| Director, Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. |
| Director, Department of Nosocomial Infection Control, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. |
| Director, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. |
| President, Nosocomial Infection Control Committee of China Prevent Medicine Association. |
| Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. |
| Board Member of the Infection Control Society of China. |
| Shanghai, China. Asia. |
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Leblebicioglu, Hakan. MD. |
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| Head of Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School. |
| Professor of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Courses at Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School. |
| President of Black Sea Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (BSCMID); Founding Member of Turkish Society of Hospital Infection Prevention; Vice President of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Specialty Society of Turkey (EKMUD). |
| Editor of Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (ACMA). |
| Samsun, Turkey. Europe. |
| Links: |
| http://www.ekmud.org |
| http://www.bscmid.org |
| http://www.leblebicioglu.org |
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Medeiros, Eduardo Alexandrino Servolo de, MD. |
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| Medical Doctor at Clínica Greal Doenças Infecciosas, São Paulo, Brasil. |
| Specialised in Infectious Diseases graduated from the School of Medicine of Fundação do ABC. Medical Residence Training. |
| MSc and PHD in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases from the Federal University São Paulo (UNIFESP). |
| Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine. |
| Scientific Coordinator of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases Researcher of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil. |
| Project coordinator of distant-learning courses of Healthcare-Associated Infections, with the support of the Brazilian Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária), and of Bacterial Resistance, with the support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). |
| Research leader of projects financially supported by the FAPESP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others. |
| São Paulo, Brazil. Latin America. |
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Mehta, Ajita P. MD, DPB |
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| Consultant Microbiologist, P.D. Hinduja National Hospital. |
| Head of Infection Control Committee, P.D. Hinduja National Hospital. |
| Former President of the Hospital Infection Society of India (HIS - I) |
| Chairperson of the Hospital Infection Society of India, Mumbai Forum (HIS - MF) |
| Vice President of the Infectious Disease Society of India. |
| Mumbai, India. Asia. |
| Links: |
| http://www.hindujahospital.com |
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| Mitsuda,Toshihiro. MD, PhD, CIC. |
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| Head of the Division of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Yokohama City. University Hospital. |
| Associate Professor at University Hospital, Yokohama City. |
| Board of Directors of Japanese Society of Environmental Infections. |
| Board of Directors of Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology. |
| Yokohama, Japan. Asia. |
| Links: |
| http://www.kankyokansen.org/ |
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Raka, Lul, MD, MSc |
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| President, National Committee for Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections, Ministry of Health. |
| Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology, Medical School, Prishtina University. Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health of Kosova. |
| Prishtina, Kosova. Europe. |
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Virgilio Bonilla Sanchez, MD |
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| General Medicine Doctor |
| Medical urgencies and toxicology graduate, Univesidad de Panamá. |
| Specialist in infection control and prevention, International Medical Center of Japan. |
| Collaborator of the Program “Ensuring the Quality of Health Care, Panamerican Health Organization", in Panamá. |
| Panamá, Panamá. Latin America. |
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| ADVISORY BOARD |
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Alvarado, Carla J., PhD, CIC. |
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| Research Scientist Emerita. Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement. University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Research Scientist and Course Director Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety Short Course. |
| Former Board of Director of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC); Former Trustee of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Research Foundation; Chairperson of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Healthcare Technical Group. |
| Affiliated to the MP 471 Patient Safety: Risk Assessment and Management and Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement Courses programs (CQPI) College of Engineering and the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| She received 2003 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Carol DeMille Lifetime Achievement in Infection Control Award. |
| Madison, Wisconsin, USA. |
| Links: |
| http://www.engr.wisc.edu/centers/cqpi/ |
| http://www2.fpm.wisc.edu/seips/ |
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Favero, Martin S., Ph.D., B.S., M.S. |
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| Former Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Hospital Infections Program. |
| Former Deputy Director of the Hepatitis Laboratories Division and Chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) laboratories in Phoenix, Arizona, and Chief of its Applied and Environmental Microbiology Section. |
| Former Head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) activities in Spacecraft Sterilization and Planetary Quarantine (from 1964 to 1972). |
| He published over 200 papers and book chapters in the fields of public health, environmental microbiology, disinfection and sterilization, environmental aspects of viral hepatitis, dialysis-associated disease, biosafety, prevention of viral hepatitis and AIDS transmission in health care settings. |
| Director of Scientific and Clinical Affairs, Advanced Sterilization Products, a Johnson & Johnson Company. |
| Irvine, California, U.S.A. |
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French, Gary L., BSc MD, FRC Path Dip |
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| Professor of Microbiology and Honorary Consultant, King's College and Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital Trust, London, UK. |
| Chairman of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust Infection Control Committee. |
| Vice-Chairman of the United Kingdom Association of Academic Clinical Microbiologists and Virologists. |
| Board Member of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC). |
| Former Chairman of the Hospital Infection Society (HIS). He has served on organising committees for the International Conferences of the Hospital Infection Society since 1990. |
| Former Editor of the Journal of Hospital Infection. |
| Former Foundation Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
| Former President of the Hong Kong Society of Microbiology and Secretary of the Hong Kong Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. |
| London, UK. Europe |
| Links: |
| http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk |
| http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ |
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Graves, Nicholas, PhD (econ), BA Hons. (econ & econ hist), MA (health services). |
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| Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. |
| Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, Institute for Health & Biomedical Innovation, QUT, Brisbane, Australia. |
| Peer Reviewer of Scientific Journals: BMJ, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), Epidemiology & Infection, AIDS, Journal of Internal Medicine, European Journal of Public Health, and others. |
| Research Funding: NH&MRC Australia Project Grants; NHS Quality Improvement, Health Technology Assessment, Scotland; Health Research Board, Health Services Research, Ireland. |
| Brisbane, Australia. Oceania. |
| Links: |
| http://www.ihbi.qut.edu.au/ |
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Jarvis, William Robert, M.D., F.A.A.P., FIDSA, FSHEA |
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| Clinical Associate Professor, Division Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Epidemiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Editor, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE). Former Senior Editor, IcanPrevent, Ican, Inc. |
| Former President and Vice-President, The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). |
| Former Chair, American Society for Microbiology (ASM). |
| Former President and Vice President, Research Foundation for Prevention of Complications Associated with Health Care, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC). |
| Former Commissioned Corps Officer, U.S. Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Former Chief, National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), CDC. Former Acting Director, HIP, NCID, CDC. Former Associate Director for Program Development, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCID, CDC. |
| Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Former Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine. |
| Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. |
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Larson, Elaine, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC. |
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| Professor of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Research and Associate Dean for Research School of Nursing, Columbia University |
| Consultant to World Health Organization (WHO) for World Alliance for Patient Safety: hand hygiene |
| Editor of the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC). Former Editor Board Member of the American Journal of Critical Care, Hospital Infection Control, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, and other journals. Peer Reviewer of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM), Research in Nursing and Health, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Nursing Research, American Society of Microbiology (ASM journals) (J Clin Microbiol, Antimicro Agen Chemot), and others. |
| Former Chair of the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). |
| Former Director Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Research Foundation. |
| City of New York, New York, U.S.A. |
| Links: |
| http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nursing/index.html |
| http://www.apic.org/ajic/ |
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Lynch, Patricia, RN, MBA. |
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| Former Chair, International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC) and an IFIC Board member since 1999. |
| Former president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), of the Certification Board of Infection Control, and of the Research Foundation for Prevention of Complications Associated with Health Care. |
| Redmond, Washington, U.S.A. |
| Links: |
| http://www.theific.org/ |
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Maki, Dennis G., MD. |
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| Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine and Head, Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine University of Wisconsin Medical School. |
| Attending Physician of the Center for Trauma and Life Support Hospital Epidemiologist and Director of Infectious Disease Clinic, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. |
| Former President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), of the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association, and Councillor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. |
| Editorial Board Member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). |
| Former Editor, Primum Non Nocere, Center for Disease Control and Former Editorial Board Member of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Monitor, Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Investigation, Journal of Critical Care, Journal of Infectious Diseases, and others. |
| Former Consultant to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and for the National Response to Bioterrorism of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). |
| Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. |
| Links: |
| http://www.medicine.wisc.edu/mainweb/DOMPages.php?section=infectiousdisease&page=introduction |
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Olmsted, Russell N., MPH, CIC |
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| Epidemiologist, Infection Control Services; Saint Joseph Mercy Health System. |
| 2006 President & Member, Michigan Society for Infection Control (MSIC). |
| Member, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). |
| Associate Editor, American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC); and Member - Editorial Board, Journal of Hospital Infection (JHI). |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. |
| Links: |
| http://www.msic-online.org |
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Pittet, Didier, MD, MS. |
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| Director, Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals. |
| Lead, World Health Organization (WHO) World Alliance for Patient Safety, First Global Patient Safety Challenge, World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters, Geneva. |
| Professor of Medicine, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine. |
| Honorary professor at Division of Investigative Science, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. London, UK. ; at Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR, China; and at 1st Medical School of the Fu, Shanghai, China. |
| Associate editor, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE); Member of the editorial boards of American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM), Lancet Infectious Diseases; Consultant to the Lancet. |
| Geneva, Switzerland. Europe. |
| Links: |
| http://www.hcuge.ch |
| http://www.who.int/patientsafety/worldalliance/en/ |
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Seto, Wing Hong, MD |
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| Chief of Service of Microbiology and Infection Control Officer, Queen Mary Hospital and Hong Kong West Cluster, Hospital Authority. |
| Founding President of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control and President of the Asia Pacific Society of Quality Healthcare. |
| Chairman of the Infection Control Scientific Committee of the “Centre for Health Protection” in Hong Kong. |
| WHO Regular Advisor for various projects in Infection Control, Antibiotics Resistance and a core group member for the WHO Hand Hygiene guidelines. |
| Honorary Professor for the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and visiting professor for the University of New South Wales. |
| He has been awarded the “Bronze Bauhinia Star” from the Hong Kong Government for his work in Infection Control in Hong Kong. |
| Hong Kong. Asia. |
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