Councils - Infectious Disease

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES
COUNCIL LEADERSHIPQUICK LINKS
CHAIRS2013 ID COUNCIL MEETING

Friday, April 26, 12:10 - 12:55 PM
Room 512D, Palais des congrès de Montréal

Minutes (PDF)
ID Council Report to the Board (PDF)




INFECTIOUS DISEASES MONOGRAPH

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LINKS NEWSLETTER

May 2013: ID Council Year of Accomplishments

September 2012 and February 2012, with a focus on Infectious Diseases




OTHER LINKS
  • January 4, 2013 ID Leadership T/C Minutes (PDF)
  • ISHLT Advisory Statement on Pandemic Influenza  PDF
CHAIR
Fernanda Silveira, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
silveirafd@upmc.edu

Fernanda P. Silveira, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases and a member of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Unit. Her research interests are on treatment and outcome of infections in solid organ transplant recipients, cytomegalovirus infections in organ transplant recipients and infections with multi-drug resistant bacteria. She is also the Associated Director of Education for the Division of Infectious Diseases and coordinates the educational activities for the fellowship program.


VICE CHAIR
Paolo A. Grossi, MD, PhD
University of Insubria
Varese, ITALY
39-0332-393389
paolo.grossi@uninsubria.it

Paolo Grossi is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Milano (Italy), attended the residency program on Infectious Diseases at the University of Pavia (Italy), and received his post-doctoral degree on Preventive and Community Medicine. Since the beginning of his career he performed his clinical and research activity at the Infectious Diseases Department of the University of Pavia. In 1993 he moved, as visiting professor, to the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he remained to the end of 1994. Since the year 2000 he has been professor of Infectious Diseases and director of the residency programs in Infectious Diseases and in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. From February 2001 he has been the Director of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit of the Ospedale di Circolo and Fondazione Macchi of Varese, Italy, where, since April 2009 he has been the Director of the Department of Transplantation.


PAST CHAIR
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
513-636-9101
mailto:Lara.Danziger-Isakov@cchmc.org

Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, practices pediatric infectious diseases at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center where she is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Danziger-Isakov earned her MD at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and complete her residency in Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic. She also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Saint Louis Children's Hospital. Dr. Danziger-Isakov is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. Her clinical interests include pediatric infectious diseases, infections in transplant recipients, and infections in immunocompromised patients. Her research interests include outcomes related to infection after pediatric transplantation with an emphasis on pediatric and adult lung transplantation. In addition, Dr. Danziger-Isakov participates in clinical trials to evaluate both new infectious disease therapies and new method of detection for infectious diseases.
COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES
2014 ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Stanley I. Martin, MD
Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio, USA
614-293-5666
stanley.martin@osumc.edu

Stanley Martin, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center. Dr. Martin has a clinical and research interest in infectious diseases related to non-HIV immunocompromised hosts. His work and training have focused mainly on patients undergoing solid organ and bone marrow transplantation. His research interests have included molecular virology in transplantation, xenotransplantation, and infectious complications of monoclonal antibody therapy. Dr. Martin earned his MD at the University of Tennessee and subsequently completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He went on to complete an infectious diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.


Amparo Sole, MD, PhD
University Hospital la Fe Valencia
Valencia, SPAIN
34-61-656-6203
sole_amp@gva.es

Amparo Sole, MD, PhD, is a pulmonologist professor of lung transplant medicine at EVESP (Escuela valenciana de estudios superiores). She is Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit and Senior Consultant of the Lung Transplant Unit at the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Spain. Her clinical interests include lung transplant, heart-lung transplant, transplant outcomes, and cystic fibrosis. She has developed her career in the field of  lung transplant at several hospitals around the world, being a visitor and researcher at the Royal Brompton Hospital of London, Freeman Hospital in Newcastle (England), Toronto General Hospital in Ontario (Canada), and at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney (Australia). She was president of the 33rd European Cystic Fibrosis Conference held in Valencia in June, 2010. Currently she is the President of the Spanish Scientific Society of Cystic Fibrosis.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE ID WORKFORCE LEADER
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I2C2 COMMITTEE ID WORKFORCE LEADER
Martha L. Mooney, MD
Sentara Norfolk Transplant Center/EVMS
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
757-388-3803
mooneyml@evms.edu

Martha Mooney, MD, is an Associate Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Virginia.  Dr. Mooney received her medical education at EVMS and a graduate degree in Biochemical Genetics from Old Dominion University in Norfolk. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine and subsequently completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease, Research and Clinical, at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
IMACS REGISTRY COMMITTEE ID WORKFORCE LEADER
Margaret M. Hannan, MD
Mater Hospital
Dublin, IRELAND
35-31-803-4013
mhannan@mater.ie

Bio coming soon...
REGISTRIES & DATABASES COMMITTEE ID WORKFORCE CO-LEADERS
Paolo A. Grossi, MD, PhD
University of Insubria
Varese, ITALY
39-0332-393389
paolo.grossi@uninsubria.it

Paolo Grossi is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Milano (Italy), attended the residency program on Infectious Diseases at the University of Pavia (Italy), and received his post-doctoral degree on Preventive and Community Medicine. Since the beginning of his career he performed his clinical and research activity at the Infectious Diseases Department of the University of Pavia. In 1993 he moved, as visiting professor, to the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he remained to the end of 1994. Since the year 2000 he has been professor of Infectious Diseases and director of the residency programs in Infectious Diseases and in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. From February 2001 he has been the Director of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit of the Ospedale di Circolo and Fondazione Macchi of Varese, Italy, where, since April 2009 he has been the Director of the Department of Transplantation.


Margaret M. Hannan, MD
Mater Hospital
Dublin, IRELAND
35-31-803-4013
mhannan@mater.ie

Bio coming soon...
STANDARDS & GUIDELINES COMMITTEE ID WORKFORCE LEADER
Stanley I. Martin, MD
Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio, USA
614-293-5666
stanley.martin@osumc.edu

See 2014 Annual Meeting Program Committee Co-Representative for bio.
LIAISONS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS LIAISON
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
513-636-9101
mailto:Lara.Danziger-Isakov@cchmc.org

See 'Past Chair' for bio.
BSTR COUNCIL LIAISON
Orla Morrissey, MD
Alfred Health
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
+39-076-2631
o.morrissey@alfred.org.au

Bio coming soon...
LINKS COMMUNICATIONS CO-LIAISONS
Michele Estabrook, MD
St. Louis Children's Hospital
St. Louis, MO, USA
314-454-6050
estabrook_m@kids.wustl.edu

Bio coming soon...




Macé M. Schuurmans, MD
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, SWITZERLAND
044-255-11-11
mschuurmans@me.com

Macé Matthew Schuurmans is a consultant in pulmonology and lung transplantation at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. He earned his MD at the University of Basel, completed the postgraduate course in experimental medicine and biology at the University of Zurich followed by basic research in pharmacology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel. After board certification in internal medicine he specialised in pulmonology and sleep medicine at the University Hospitals of Basel, Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Bern.  After a 3-year consultant post in pulmonology and internal medicine in a private teaching hospital he joined the Zurich Lung Transplant Team in 2009 with a special interest in practical management issues of lung transplant recipients and a focus on diagnostics, treatment and prevention of viral infections.
JFT COUNCIL LIAISON
Me-Linh Luong, MD
University of Montréal
St-Luc Hospital, Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montréal (CHUM)
Montreal, CANADA
514-890-8000 ext. 37460
me-linh.luong.chum@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

Me-Linh Luong, MD is an assistant professor of Medicine at the University oF Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Luong earned her MD at the University of Sherbrooke and subsequently completed her residency in Internal Medicine at University of Montreal. She went on to complete an Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology fellowship at McGill University followed by a postgraduate training in Transplant Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her main research interests include the epidemiology and outcome of fungal infection in lung transplant recipients, novel diagnostics methods for fungal infections and antifungal treatment.

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